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探测洛伦兹破坏(弦状)量子时空泡沫

Probing Lorentz Violating (Stringy) Quantum Space-Time Foam

Nick E. Mavromatos

摘要:

量子时空可以通过大量的新现象来表征,例如洛伦兹破坏和非平凡折射率,导致量子物质退相干的随机度规涨落效应和时空坐标的非交换性。弦理论是研究量子引力的主要方法之一,在弦理论中,这种坐标非对易性在许多情况下自然出现。在演讲中,我回顾了一个这样的例子,它出现在背景时空中的D-膜缺陷的现代背景下,弦物质在其中传播。这是时空泡沫的原型。我之所以选择这个模型,是因为它实际上可能有一些独特的特征,可以通过高能天体物理观测或某些粒子干涉仪(如中性介子工厂)的实验来证伪。特别是,该模型可以解释最近的观测费米伽马射线望远镜延迟发射的30 GeV光子从遥远的伽马射线暴090510,在协议与以前的观测从魔术和HESS望远镜,但也可能导致证伪的预测量子泡沫效应在即将升级的某些“粒子干涉仪”,如中性介子工厂。

英文摘要:

Quantum Space Time may be characterized by a plethora of novel phenomena, such as Lorentz violations and non-trivial refractive indices, stochastic metric fluctuation effects leading to decoherence of quantum matter and non-commutativity of space-time coordinates. In string theory, which is one of the major approaches to quantum gravity, such coordinate non-commutativities arise naturally in many instances. In the talk I review one such instance, which arises in the modern context of D-brane defects in the background space time, over which string matter propagates. This serves as a prototype of space-time foam in this context. I chose this model, over many others, because it may actually have some unique features that can be falsified experimentally either by means of high-energy astrophysical observations or in some particle-interferometers, such as neutral meson factories. In particular, the model may explain the recent observations of the FERMI Gamma-Ray Telescope on delayed emission of 30 GeV photons from a distant Gamma-Ray-Burst 090510, in agreement with previous observations from the MAGIC and HESS Telescopes, but can also lead to falsifiable predictions for quantum foam effects in forthcoming upgrades of certain "particle interferometers", such as neutral meson factories.

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