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Thomas Precession for Dressed Particles

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-01-29 v2 Strongly Correlated Electrons General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Representation Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

We consider a particle dressed with boundary gravitons in three-dimensional Minkowski space. The existence of BMS transformations implies that the particle's wavefunction picks up a Berry phase when subjected to changes of reference frames that trace a closed path in the asymptotic symmetry group. We evaluate this phase and show that, for BMS superrotations, it provides a gravitational generalization of Thomas precession. In principle, such phases are observable signatures of asymptotic symmetries.

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@article{arxiv.1711.05753,
  title  = {Thomas Precession for Dressed Particles},
  author = {Blagoje Oblak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.05753},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

20 pages, 2 figures. v2: typos fixed, references added, published in Classical and Quantum Gravity

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