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The Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) stands out as a nearly ubiquitous feature in quantum gravity modeling, predicting the emergence of a minimum length at the Planck scale. Recently, it has been shown to modify the area-law scaling…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-17 Giuseppe Gaetano Luciano , Yassine Sekhmani

One of the leading issues in quantum field theory and cosmology is the mismatch between the observed and calculated values for the cosmological constant in Einstein's field equations of up to 120 orders of magnitude. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-21 Michael Bishop , Peter Martin , Douglas Singleton

The charged black hole thermodynamics is corrected in terms of the quantum gravity effects. Most of the quantum gravity theories support the idea that near the Planck scale, the standard Heisenberg uncertainty principle should be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-08-16 N. Abbasvandi , M. J. Soleimani , Shahidan Radiman , W. A. T. Wan Abdullah

Various models of quantum gravity imply the Planck-scale modifications of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle into a so-called generalized uncertainty principle (GUP). The GUP effects on high-energy physics, cosmology, and astrophysics have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-18 Dongfeng Gao , Jin Wang , Mingsheng Zhan

We discuss a Gedanken experiment for the measurement of the area of the apparent horizon of a black hole in quantum gravity. Using rather general and model-independent considerations we find a generalized uncertainty principle which agrees…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 Michele Maggiore

A recent study established a correspondence between the Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) and Modified theories of gravity, particularly Stelle gravity. We investigate the consequences of this correspondence for inflation and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-01 Saurya Das , S. Shankaranarayanan , Vasil Todorinov

Many quantum-gravity scenarios predict a minute modification of the canonical commutator, known as the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP), whose low-energy signatures are, in principle, accessible to state-of-the-art laboratory tests.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-02 Salman Sajad Wani , Saif Al-Kuwari

Almost all theories of Quantum Gravity predict modifications of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle near the Planck scale to a so-called Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP). Recently it was shown that the GUP gives rise to corrections…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Saurya Das , R. B. Mann

The Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) is a modification of Heisenberg's Principle predicted by several theories of Quantum Gravity. It consists of a modified commutator between position and momentum. In this work we compute…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-13 Pasquale Bosso , Saurya Das , Robert B. Mann

The generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) is a modification of standard quantum mechanics due to Planck scale effects. The GUP has recently been used to improve the short distance behaviour of classical black hole spacetimes by invoking…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-06-14 Sven Köppel , Marco Knipfer , Maximiliano Isi , Jonas Mureika , Piero Nicolini

We extend significantly previous works on the Hilbert space representations of the Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) in 3+1 dimensions of the form $[X_i,P_j] = i F_{ij}$ where $ F_{ij} = f(P^2) \delta_{ij} + g(P^2) P_i P_j $ for any…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-22 Jean-Philippe Bruneton , Julien Larena

The Generalized Uncertainty Principle and the related minimum length are normally considered in non-relativistic Quantum Mechanics. Extending it to relativistic theories is important for having a Lorentz invariant minimum length and for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-11 Vasil Todorinov , Pasquale Bosso , Saurya Das

The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (HUP) limits the accuracy in the simultaneous measurements of the position and momentum variables of any quantum system. This is known to be true in the context of non-relativistic quantum mechanics.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-25 Jaume Giné , Giuseppe Gaetano Luciano

The Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) has emerged in numerous attempts to a theory of quantum gravity and predicts the existence of a minimum length in Nature. In this work, we consider two cosmological models arising from Friedmann…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-12 Serena Giardino , Vincenzo Salzano

The generalized uncertainty principle and a minimum measurable length arise in various theories of gravity and predict Planck-scale modifications of the canonical position-momentum commutation relation. Postulating a similar modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-27 Pasquale Bosso , Saurya Das , Robert B. Mann

Recently Ali et al. (2009) proposed a Generalized Uncertainty Principle (or GUP) with a linear term in momentum (accompanied by Plank length). Inspired by this idea we examine the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for a Schwarzschild black hole with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-28 Barun Majumder

Quantum gravity has been baffling the theoretical physicist for decades now: both for its mathematical obscurity and phenomenological testing. Nevertheless, the new era of precision cosmology presents a promising avenue to test the effects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-14 Gaurav Bhandari , S. D. Pathak , Manabendra Sharma , Anzhong Wang

The problem of finding the quantum theory of the gravitational field, and thus understanding what is quantum spacetime, is still open. One of the most active of the current approaches is loop quantum gravity. Loop quantum gravity is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-19 Carlo Rovelli

The existence of a fundamental length scale in Nature is a common prediction of distinct quantum gravity models. Discovery of such would profoundly change current knowledge of quantum phenomena and modifications to the Heisenberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-03 Andre H. Gomes

Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) has brought the idea of existence of minimum measurable length in Quantum physics. Depending on this GUP, non-relativistic Hamiltonian at the Planck scale is modified. In this article, we construct…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-05-07 Sudipta das , Souvik Pramanik