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Quantum computational path summation for relativistic quantum mechanics and a time dilation relation for a Dirac Hamiltonian generator on a qubit array

Quantum Physics 2017-08-15 v3

Abstract

Dirac particle dynamics is encoded as a unitary path summation rule and implemented on a qubit array, where the qubit array represents both spacetime and the fermions contained therein. The unitary path summation rule gives a quantum algorithm to model a many-body system of Dirac particles in a gauge field with Lorentz invariance down to the grid scale (Planck scale)--the lattice-based model neither suffers the Fermi-sign problem nor breaks Lorentz invariance. Yet, for the Dirac Hamiltonian to generate the unitary evolution of the 4-spinor field at the Planck scale, there is time dilation between the shortest observable time near a single space point and that time measured at long-wavelength scales. We find gravitational time dilation where the model space around each point (with an even number of qubits) is curved like the space around a Schwarzschild black hole.

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@article{arxiv.1512.02550,
  title  = {Quantum computational path summation for relativistic quantum mechanics and a time dilation relation for a Dirac Hamiltonian generator on a qubit array},
  author = {Jeffrey Yepez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.02550},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Version of the path summation rule with 4-vector spin variable notation better suited to relativistic quantum mechanics and with an updated title

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