Decoherence and CPT Violation in a Stringy Model of Space-Time Foam

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作者
Mavromatos, Nick E. [1 ]
机构
[1] Kings Coll London, Dept Phys, London WC2R 2LS, England
关键词
String space-time foam; CPT violation; Entangled states; QUANTUM-MECHANICS; LORENTZ VIOLATION; DILATON TADPOLES; REFRACTIVE-INDEX; BLACK-HOLES; T-DUALITY; LIGHT; FIELD; KAON; VACUUM;
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10.1007/s10701-009-9372-z
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
I discuss a model inspired from the string/brane framework, in which our Universe is represented (after perhaps appropriate compactification) as a three brane, propagating in a bulk space time punctured by D0-brane (D-particle) defects. As the D3-brane world moves in the bulk, the D-particles cross it, and from an effective observer on D3 the situation looks like a "space-time foam" with the defects "flashing" on and off ("D-particle foam"). The open strings, with their ends attached on the brane, which represent matter in this scenario, can interact with the D-particles on the D3-brane universe in a topologically non-trivial manner, involving splitting and capture of the strings by the D0-brane defects. Such processes are consistently described by logarithmic conformal field theories on the world-sheet of the strings. Physically, they result in effective decoherence of the string matter on the D3 brane, and as a result, of CPT Violation, but of a type that implies an ill-defined nature of the effective CPT operator. Due to electric charge conservation, only electrically neutral (string) matter can exhibit such interactions with the D-particle foam. This may have unique, experimentally detectable (in principle), consequences for electrically-neutral entangled quantum matter states on the brane world, in particular the modification of the pertinent Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) Correlation in neutral mesons in an appropriate meson factory. For the simplest scenarios, the order of magnitude of such effects might lie within the sensitivity of upgraded phi-meson factories.
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