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Free particle wavefunction in light of the minimum-length deformed quantum mechanics and some of its phenomenological implications

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2011-08-31 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

At a fundamental level the notion of particle (quantum) comes from quantum field theory. From this point of view we estimate corrections to the free particle wave function due to minimum-length deformed quantum mechanics to the first order in the deformation parameter. Namely, in the matrix element <0Φ(t,x)p><0 |\varPhi(t,\,\mathbf{x}) |\mathbf{p} > that in the standard case sets the free particle wave function exp(i[pxϵ(p)t])\propto \exp(i[\mathbf{p}\mathbf{x} - \epsilon(\mathbf{p}) t]) there appear three kinds of corrections when the field operator is calculated by using the minimum-length deformed quantum mechanics. Starting from the standard (not modified at the classical level) Lagrangian, after the field quantization we get a modified dispersion relation, and besides that we find that the particle's wave function contains a small fractions of an antiparticle wave function and the backscattered wave. The result leads to interesting implications for black hole physics.

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@article{arxiv.1010.2873,
  title  = {Free particle wavefunction in light of the minimum-length deformed quantum mechanics and some of its phenomenological implications},
  author = {Micheal S. Berger and Michael Maziashvili},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1010.2873},
  year   = {2011}
}

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9 pages; Revised version - more explanations, to appear in Phys. Rev. D