Spacetime geometry of spin, polarization, and wavefunction collapse

DOI10.1016/J.GEOMPHYS.2023.105026arXiv2103.03743MaRDI QIDQ6141346FDOQ6141346

Charlie Beil

Publication date: 4 January 2024

Published in: Journal of Geometry and Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A nonnoetherian spacetime is a Lorentzian manifold that contains a set of causal curves with no distinct interior points, called 'pointal curves'. This new geometry recently arose in the study of nonnoetherian coordinate rings in algebraic geometry. We investigate properties of metrics on nonnoetherian spacetimes, and use the Hodge star operator to show that free dust particles have spin $frac12$. We also reproduce the Kochen-Specker $psi$-epistemic model of spin using the nonnoetherian metric, and show similarities between our model and spin entanglement for Bell states and four-photon entanglement swapping. Finally, we determine the stress-energy tensor of dust on such spacetimes, and find that it is only nonzero at points where dust is created or annihilated.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03743

zbMATH Keywords

quantum foundationsspin geometryspacetime geometrycollapse modelnon-Noetherian geometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum optics (81V80) Spin and Spin({}^c) geometry (53C27) Symmetries and conservation laws, reverse symmetries, invariant manifolds and their bifurcations, reduction for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70H33) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Quantum measurement theory, state operations, state preparations (81P15) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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