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We investigate the relationship between the generalized uncertainty principle in quantum gravity and the quantum deformation of the Poincar\'e algebra. We find that a deformed Newton-Wigner position operator and the generators of spatial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-13 Michele Maggiore

The generalized uncertainty principle has been described as a general consequence of incorporating a minimal length from a theory of quantum gravity. We consider a simple quantum mechanical model where the operator corresponding to position…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jang Young Bang , Micheal S. Berger

Various theories of quantum gravity predict the existence of a minimum length scale, which implies the Planck-scale modifications of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle to a so-called generalized uncertainty principle (GUP). Previous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-28 Dongfeng Gao , Mingsheng Zhan

A proper deformation of the underlying coordinate and momentum commutation relations in quantum mechanics provides a phenomenological approach to account for the influence of gravity on small scales. Introducing the squared momentum term…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-15 Y. V. Przhiyalkovskiy

Quantum gravity models predict a minimal measurable length which gives rise to a modification in the uncertainty principle. One of the simplest manifestations of these generalised uncertainty principles is the linear quadratic generalised…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-23 Indra Kumar Banerjee , Ujjal Kumar Dey

We review versions of the Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) obtained in string theory and in gedanken experiments carried out in Quantum Gravity. We show how a GUP can be derived from a measure gedanken experiment involving…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-05-05 Fabio Scardigli

Quantum mechanics with a generalized uncertainty principle arises through a representation of the commutator $[\hat{x}, \hat{p}] = i f(\hat{p})$. We apply this deformed quantization to free scalar field theory for $f_\pm =1\pm \beta p^2$.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-02-28 Viqar Husain , Dawood Kothawala , Sanjeev S. Seahra

We discuss the Generalized Uncertainty Principle and the Extended Uncertainty Principle in the context of black hole solutions coming from non-local theories of gravity, focusing, specifically, on Infinite Derivative Gravity. We argue that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-11 Salvatore Capozziello , Giuseppe Meluccio , Jonas R. Mureika

We explore the modification of the entropic formulation of uncertainty principle in quantum mechanics which measures the incompatibility of measurements in terms of Shannon entropy. The deformation in question is the type so called…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-28 Li-Yi Hsu , Shoichi Kawamoto , Wen-Yu Wen

We aim to analyze the consistency of the deformation of the Heisenberg algebra in the setting of constrained Hamiltonian systems, providing a procedure to induce the deformation on the Poisson algebra after symplectic reduction. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Matteo Bruno , Sebastiano Segreto

Taking into account the importance of the unified theory of quantum mechanics and gravity, and the existence of a minimal length of the order of the Planck scale, we consider a modified Schr\"odinger equation resulting from a generalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-29 M. Baradaran , L. M. Nieto , S. Zarrinkamar

We consider quantum gravity corrections to the maximum entropic force that arise from several gravitational uncertainty principles. These include the Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP), the Extended Uncertainty Principle (EUP), the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-11 Jonas Mureika , Elias C. Vagenas

We argue that our recent success in using our resummed quantum gravity approach to Einstein's general theory of relativity, in the context of the Planck scale cosmology formulation of Bonanno and Reuter, to estimate the value of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-28 B. F. L. Ward

The Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) is a modification of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle predicted by several theories of quantum gravity. In this work, we compute GUP corrections to the well-known Jaynes-Cummings Model (JCM)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-22 Kabir Khanna , Saurya Das

We give a pedagogical introduction to the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP), by showing how it naturally emerges when the action of gravity is taken into account in measurement processes. We review some physical predictions of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-07 Fabio Scardigli

Generalized uncertainty principles are able to serve as useful descriptions of some of the phenomenology of quantum gravity effects, providing an intuitive grasp on non-trivial space-time structures such as a fundamental discreteness of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-03 Martin Bojowald , Achim Kempf

The new uncertainty relation is derived in the context of the canonical quantum theory with gravity for the case of the maximally symmetric space. This relation establishes a connection between fluctuations of the quantities which determine…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-05 V. E. Kuzmichev , V. V. Kuzmichev

The generalized uncertainty principle discloses a self-complete characteristic of gravity, namely the possibility of masking any curvature singularity behind an event horizon as a result of matter compression at the Planck scale. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-21 Maximiliano Isi , Jonas Mureika , Piero Nicolini

Based on string theory, black hole physics, doubly special relativity and some "thought" experiments, minimal distance and/or maximum momentum are proposed. As alternatives to the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP), the modified…

General Physics · Physics 2015-11-04 Abdel Nasser Tawfik , Abdel Magied Diab

Several phenomenological approaches to quantum gravity predict the existence of a minimal measurable length and/or a maximum measurable momentum near the Planck scale. When embedded into the framework of quantum mechanics, such constraints…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-30 Eissa Al-Nasrallah , Saurya Das , Fabrizio Illuminati , Luciano Petruzziello , Elias C. Vagenas