Spacetime Foam as a Quantum Thermal Bath

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.80.2508MaRDI QIDQ4492566zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors L. J. Garay

Publication date 16 July 2000

Published in Physical Review Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9801024

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational Lamb and Stark shiftsnonlocal interactionsspacetime foam

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic gravitational theories other than Einstein's, including asymmetric field theories (83D05)

Abstract: An effective model for the spacetime foam is constructed in terms of nonlocal interactions in a classical background. In the weak-coupling approximation, the evolution of the low-energy density matrix is determined by a master equation that predicts loss of quantum coherence. Moreover, spacetime foam can be described by a quantum thermal field that, apart from inducing loss of coherence, gives rise to effects such as gravitational Lamb and Stark shifts as well as quantum damping in the evolution of the low-energy observables.

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