Is there a relativistic nonlinear generalization of quantum mechanics?

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作者
Elze, Hans-Thomas [1 ]
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[1] Dipartimento Fis Enrico Fermi, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
来源
THIRD INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP DICE2006 - QUANTUM MECHANICS BETWEEN DECOHERENCE AND DETERMINISM: NEW ASPECTS FROM PARTICLE PHYSICS TO COSMOLOGY | 2007年 / 67卷
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10.1088/1742-6596/67/1/012016
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
Yes, there is. - A new kind of gauge theory is introduced, where the minimal coupling and corresponding covariant derivatives are defined in the space of functions pertaining to the functional Schrodinger picture of a given field theory. While, for simplicity, we study the example of a U(1) symmetry, this kind of gauge theory can accommodate other symmetries as well. We consider the resulting relativistic nonlinear extension of quantum mechanics and show that it incorporates gravity in the (0+1)-dimensional limit, where it leads to the Schrodinger-Newton equations. Gravity is encoded here into a universal nonlinear extension of quantum theory. The probabilistic interpretation, i.e. Born's rule, holds provided the underlying model has only dimensionless parameters.
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