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arXiv 0705.4393hep-thastro-phgr-qchep-phquant-ph
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弯曲背景中的半经典标量传播子:形式和歧义

Semiclassical scalar propagators in curved backgrounds: formalism and ambiguities

J. Grain, A. Barrau

摘要:

弯曲时空中量子系统的现象学是物理学中最吸引人的领域之一,它允许--通常是在实验水平上--对量子引力的试探性理论进行约束。然而,确定弯曲背景中的场的动力学仍然是一项复杂的任务,因为涉及到高度复杂的偏微分方程,特别是当空间度规没有对称性时。在这篇文章中,我们提供-在教学的方式-一般形式主义,以确定这种动态的半经典秩序。为此,计算了半经典传播子的一般表达式,并导出了概率四流的运动方程。这些结果强调了广义相对论量子力学中传播子的计算与非相对论量子力学中定态系统传播子的计算之间的直接类比。这种形式主义的曲率引起的量子干涉的一个可能的应用进行了讨论。

英文摘要:

The phenomenology of quantum systems in curved space-times is among the most fascinating fields of physics, allowing --often at the gedankenexperiment level-- constraints on tentative theories of quantum gravity. Determining the dynamics of fields in curved backgrounds remains however a complicated task because of the highly intricate partial differential equations involved, especially when the space metric exhibits no symmetry. In this article, we provide --in a pedagogical way-- a general formalism to determine this dynamics at the semiclassical order. To this purpose, a generic expression for the semiclassical propagator is computed and the equation of motion for the probability four-current is derived. Those results underline a direct analogy between the computation of the propagator in general relativistic quantum mechanics and the computation of the propagator for stationary systems in non-relativistic quantum mechanics. A possible application of this formalism to curvature-induced quantum interferences is also discussed.

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