Spin Path Integrals and Generations
Abstract
The spin of a free electron is stable but its position is not. Recent quantum information research by G. Svetlichny, J. Tolar, and G. Chadzitaskos have shown that the Feynman \emph{position} path integral can be mathematically defined as a product of incompatible states; that is, as a product of mutually unbiased bases (MUBs). Since the more common use of MUBs is in finite dimensional Hilbert spaces, this raises the question "what happens when \emph{spin} path integrals are computed over products of MUBs?" Such an assumption makes spin no longer stable. We show that the usual spin-1/2 is obtained in the long-time limit in three orthogonal solutions that we associate with the three elementary particle generations. We give applications to the masses of the elementary leptons.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1006.3114,
title = {Spin Path Integrals and Generations},
author = {C. A. Brannen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1006.3114},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
20 pages, 2 figures, accepted at Foundations of Physics