Quantum spacetime fluctuations and primary state diffusion

DOI10.1098/RSPA.1995.0139MaRDI QIDQ3126111zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ian C. Percival

Publication date 23 March 1997

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9508021

zbMATH Keywords

primary state diffusionquantum spacetime fluctuations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Diffusion processes and stochastic analysis on manifolds (58J65) Brownian motion (60J65) Stochastic quantization (81S20)

Abstract: Nondifferentiable fluctuations in space-time on a Planck scale introduce stochastic terms into the equations for quantum states, resulting in a proposed new foundation for an existing alternative quantum theory, primary state diffusion (PSD). Planck-scale stochastic space-time structure results in quantum fluctuations, whilst larger-scale curvature is responsible for gravitational forces. The gravitational field and the quantum fluctuation field are the same, differing only in scale. The quantum mechanics of small systems, classical mechanics of large systems and the physics of quantum experiments are all derived dynamically, without any prior division into classical and quantum domains, and without any measurement hypothesis. Unlike the earlier derivation of PSD, the new derivation, based on a stochastic space-time differential geometry, has essentially no free parameters. However many features of this structure remain to be determined. The theory is falsifiable in the laboratory, and critical matter interferometry experiments to distinguish it from ordinary quantum mechanics may be feasible within the next decade.

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