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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 work, we point out an overlooked and subtle feature of the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) approach to quantizing gravity: namely that different pairs of modified operators with the same modified commutator,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-22 Michael Bishop , Joey Contreras , Douglas Singleton

A possible discrepancy has been found between the results of a neutron interferometry experiment and Quantum Mechanics. This experiment suggests that the weak equivalence principle is violated at small length scales, which quantum mechanics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-02 Ahmed Farag Ali

We present the coherent states of the harmonic oscillator in the framework of the generalized (gravitational) uncertainty principle (GUP). This form of GUP is consistent with various theories of quantum gravity such as string theory, loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-03-04 Pouria Pedram

The existence of a minimum observable length and/or a maximum observable momentum is in agreement with various candidates of quantum gravity such as string theory, loop quantum gravity, doubly special relativity and black hole physics. In…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-28 Pouria Pedram , Kourosh Nozari , S. H. Taheri

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

The generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) is a gravitational correction of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which allows us to probe some features of quantum gravity even without the full theory. We are used to working with metric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-21 Yen Chin Ong

The effects of noncommutativity and of the existence of a minimal length on the phase space of a dilatonic cosmological model are investigated. The existence of a minimum length, results in the Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP), which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Babak Vakili

We investigate an extension of the Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) in three dimensions by modifying the three dimensional position and momentum operators in a manner that remains coordinate-independent and retains as much of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Michael Bishop , Joey Contreras , Peter Martin , Piero Nicolini , Douglas Singleton

Recently, the authors presented a covariant extension of the Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) with a Lorentz invariant minimum length. This opens the way for constructing and exploring the observable consequences of minimum length in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-12 Pasquale Bosso , Saurya Das , Vasil Todorinov

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 propose the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) with an additional term of quadratic momentum motivated by string theory and black hole physics as a quantum mechanical framework for the minimal length uncertainty at the Planck scale.…

General Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Abdel Magied Diab , Abdel Nasser Tawfik

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

Various candidates of quantum gravity such as string theory, loop quantum gravity and black hole physics all predict the existence of a minimum observable length which modifies the Heisenberg uncertainty principle to so-called Generalized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-19 Pouria Pedram

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

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 non-zero minimal length arises in various theories of gravity, leading to the so-called generalized uncertainty principle (GUP). In this short paper we analyze the GUP effects on neutron interferometry, showing that the obtained phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-02 Fabiano Feleppa , Hooman Moradpour , Christian Corda , Sarah Aghababaei

In a recent paper, we presented a nonperturbative higher order generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) that is consistent with various proposals of quantum gravity such as string theory, loop quantum gravity, doubly special relativity, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-26 Pouria Pedram

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 obtain an effective acoustic metric with quantum corrections that are provided by a minimum length implemented by the generalized Heisenberg uncertainty principle (GUP) in the Abelian Higgs model. The effective acoustic metric now…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-22 M. A. Anacleto , F. A. Brito , G. C. Luna , E. Passos