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Theories of Quantum Gravity as well as string theory suggest the existence of a minimal measurable length and the related Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP). The universality of Quantum Gravity implies that the GUP influences every…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-04 M. M. Ettefaghi

Various models of quantum gravity suggest a modification of the Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, to the so-called Generalized Uncertainty Principle, between position and momentum. In this work we show how this modification influences the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-18 Pasquale Bosso , Saurya Das

Inspired by the generalization of scalar field gravitational models with a minimum length we study the equivalent theory in modified theories of gravity. The quadratic Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) gives rise to a deformed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-09 Andronikos Paliathanasis

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

We present a novel generalization of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle which introduces the existence of a maximal observable momentum and at the same time does not entail a minimal indeterminacy in position. The above result is an exact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-07 Luciano Petruzziello

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 gauge theory of quantum gravity is formulated, in which an internal, field dependent metric is introduced which non-linearly realizes the gauge fields on the non-compact group $SL(2,C)$, while linearly realizing them on $SU(2)$.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. W. Moffat

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

The most important problem of fundamental Physics is the quantization of the gravitational field. A main difficulty is the lack of available experimental tests that discriminate among the theories proposed to quantize gravity. Recently,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Jorge Alfaro

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 existence of minimal length scale has motivated the proposal of generalized uncertainty principle, which provides a potential routine to probe quantum gravitational effects in low-energy quantum mechanics experiment. Hitherto, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-26 Yue-Yue Chen , Xun-Li Feng , C. H. Oh , Zhi-Zhan Xu

A main difficulty in the quantization of the gravitational field is the lack of experiments that discriminate among the theories proposed to quantize gravity. Recently we showed that the Standard Model(SM) itself contains tiny Lorentz…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Jorge Alfaro

Quantum General Relativity (QGR), sometimes called Loop Quantum Gravity, has matured over the past fifteen years to a mathematically rigorous candidate quantum field theory of the gravitational field. The features that distinguish it from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Thomas Thiemann

Various theories that aim at unifying gravity with quantum mechanics suggest modifications of the Heisenberg algebra for position and momentum. From the perspective of quantum mechanics, such modifications lead to new uncertainty relations…

In this paper we study the effects of the Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) on the spectrum of a particle that is bouncing vertically and elastically on a smooth reflecting floor in the Earth's gravitational field (a quantum bouncer).…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-23 Kourosh Nozari , Pouria Pedram

In this letter, the entropy bound for local quantum field theories (LQFT) is studies in a class of models of the generalized uncertainty principle(GUP) which predicts a minimal length as a reflection of the quantum gravity effects. Both…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Weijian Wang , Da Huang

Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) was obtained in string theory and quantum gravity and suggested the existence of a fundamental minimal length which, as was established, can be obtained within the deformed Heisenberg algebra. We use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-24 V. M. Tkachuk

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

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

In the present contribution, a preliminary analysis of the effects of the Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) with a minimum length, in the context of compact stars, is performed. On basis of a deformed Poisson canonical algebra with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-21 João Gabriel Galli Gimenez , Dimiter Hadjimichef , Peter O. Hess , Marcelo Netz-Marzola , César A. Zen Vasconcellos