Spin path integrals and generations

DOI10.1007/S10701-010-9465-8MaRDI QIDQ618792zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Carl Brannen

Publication date 17 January 2011

Published in Foundations of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1006.3114

zbMATH Keywords

mutually unbiased basesquantum information theoryspinFeynman path integralelementary particlesgenerations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45) Weak interaction in quantum theory (81V15) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40)

Abstract: The spin of a free electron is stable but its position is not. Recent quantum information research by G. Svetlichny, J. Tolar, and G. Chadzitaskos have shown that the Feynman emph{position} path integral can be mathematically defined as a product of incompatible states; that is, as a product of mutually unbiased bases (MUBs). Since the more common use of MUBs is in finite dimensional Hilbert spaces, this raises the question "what happens when emph{spin} path integrals are computed over products of MUBs?" Such an assumption makes spin no longer stable. We show that the usual spin-1/2 is obtained in the long-time limit in three orthogonal solutions that we associate with the three elementary particle generations. We give applications to the masses of the elementary leptons.

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