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Theories of Quantum Gravity predict a minimum measurable length and a corresponding modification of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle to the so-called Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP). However, this modification is usually…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-17 Vasil Todorinov , Saurya Das , Pasquale Bosso

In this note we generalize the quantum uncertainty relation proposed by Vancea and Santos [7] in the entropic force law, by introducing Planck scale modifications. The latter is induced by the Generalized Uncertainty Principle. We show that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 Subir Ghosh

Phenomenological studies of quantum gravity have proposed a modification of the commutator between position and momentum in quantum mechanics so to introduce a minimal uncertainty in position in quantum mechanics. Such a minimal uncertainty…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-10 Pasquale Bosso

The entropic formulation of the inertia and the gravity relies on quantum, geometrical and informational arguments. The fact that the results are completly classical is missleading. In this paper we argue that the entropic formulation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-18 M. A. Santos , I. V. Vancea

The existence of a minimal length is a common prediction of various theories of quantum gravity. This minimal length leads to a modification of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle to a Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP). Various…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-05 Ahmed Farag Ali , Mohammed M. Khalil , Elias C. Vagenas

Different candidates of Quantum Gravity such as String Theory, Doubly Special Relativity, Loop Quantum Gravity and black hole physics all predict the existence of a minimum observable length or a maximum observable momentum which modifies…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-30 Pouria Pedram

Various approaches to quantum gravity, such as string theory, predict a minimal measurable length and a modification of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle near the Plank scale, known as the Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP). Here we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-04 Fatemeh Ahmadi , Jafar Khodagholizadeh

Quantum gravity theories predict a minimal length at the order of magnitude of the Planck length, under which the concepts of space and time lose every physical meaning. In quantum mechanics, the insurgence of such minimal length can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-08 Matteo A. C. Rossi , Tommaso Giani , Matteo G. A. Paris

The concept of minimum length, widely accepted as a low-energy effect of quantum gravity, manifests itself in quantum mechanics through generalized uncertainty principles. Curved momentum space, on the other hand, is at the heart of similar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-10 Fabian Wagner

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 narrow and subtle difference between the Hilbert spaces of operators corresponding to the purely quantum mechanical momentum and the generalized momentum that includes minimal length effects is polished. Additionally, the existence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 H. Moradpour , S. Jalalzadeh

The minimal-length paradigm, a possible implication of quantum gravity at low energies, is commonly understood as a phenomenological modification of Heisenberg's uncertainty relation. We show that this modification is equivalent to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-28 Pasquale Bosso , Luciano Petruzziello , Fabian Wagner

Theories of emergent gravity have established a deep connection between entropy and the geometry of spacetime by looking at the latter through a thermodynamic lens. In this framework, the macroscopic properties of gravity arise in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-01 Valeria Rossi , Sergio Luigi Cacciatori , Alessandro Pesci

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

The existence of a minimum length and a generalization of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle seem to be two fundamental ingredients required in any consistent theory of quantum gravity. In this letter we show that they would predict…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Cosimo Bambi , Katherine Freese

In this work, according to the electromagnetic field tensor in the framework of generalized uncertainty principle (GUP), we obtain the Lorentz force and Faraday's law of induction in the presence of a minimal length. Also, the ponderomotive…

General Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Behrooz Khosropour

We address estimation of the minimum length arising from gravitational theories. In particular, we provide bounds on precision and assess the use of quantum probes to enhance the estimation performances. At first, we review the concept of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Alessandro Candeloro , Cristian Degli Esposti Boschi , Matteo G. A. Paris

Inspired by Verlinde's idea, some modified versions of entropic gravity have appeared in the literature. Extending them in a unified formalism, we derive the generalized gravitational equations accordingly. From gravitational equations, the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-27 Tower Wang

Phenomenological models of quantum gravity often consider the existence of some form of minimal length. This feature is commonly described in the context of quantum mechanics and using the corresponding formalism and techniques. Although…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-09 Pasquale Bosso

A recent theory about the origin of the gravity suggests that the gravity is originally an entropic force. In this work, we discuss the effects of generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) which is proposed by some approaches to quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-25 Ahmed Farag Ali , A. Tawfik