Non-locality of Quantum Mechanics and the Locality of General Relativity
Quantum Physics
2009-11-07 v2
Abstract
The conflict between the locality of general relativity, reflected in its space-time description, and the non-locality of quantum mechanics, contained in its Hilbert space description, is discussed. Gauge covariant non-local observables that depend on gauge fields and gravity as well as the wave function are used in order to try to understand and minimize this conflict within the frame-work of these two theories. Applications are made to the Aharonov-Bohm effect and its generalizations to non Abelian gauge fields and gravity.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0206052,
title = {Non-locality of Quantum Mechanics and the Locality of General Relativity},
author = {Jeeva Anandan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0206052},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
14 pages, 1 figure. Invited talk at the Meeting on the Interface of Gravitational and Quantum Realms, IUCAA, Pune, India, Dec. 17-21, 2001. To be published in Modern Physics Letters A