The equivalence principle in a quantum world

被引:11
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作者
Bjerrum-Bohr, N. E. J. [1 ,2 ]
Donoghue, John F. [3 ]
El-Menoufi, Basem Kamal [3 ]
Holstein, Barry R. [3 ]
Plante, Ludovic [4 ]
Vanhove, Pierre [4 ,5 ]
机构
[1] Niels Bohr Int Acad, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
[2] Niels Bohr Inst, Discovery Ctr, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
[3] Univ Massachusetts, Dept Phys LGRT, Amherst, MA 01003 USA
[4] Univ Paris Saclay, Inst Phys Theor, CEA, CNRS, F-91191 Gif Sur Yvette, France
[5] Inst Hautes Etud Sci, F-91440 Bures Sur Yvette, France
来源
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS D | 2015年 / 24卷 / 12期
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Perturbative quantum gravity; effective field theory; general relativity; GENERAL-RELATIVITY;
D O I
10.1142/S0218271815440137
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We show how modern methods can be applied to quantum gravity at low energy. We test how quantum corrections challenge the classical framework behind the equivalence principle (EP), for instance through introduction of nonlocality from quantum physics, embodied in the uncertainty principle. When the energy is small, we now have the tools to address this conflict explicitly. Despite the violation of some classical concepts, the EP continues to provide the core of the quantum gravity framework through the symmetry - general coordinate invariance - that is used to organize the effective field theory (EFT).
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