Free particle wave function in light of the minimum-length deformed quantum mechanics and some of its phenomenological implications

Micheal S. Berger and Michael Maziashvili
Phys. Rev. D 84, 044043 – Published 18 August 2011

Abstract

At a fundamental level the notion of particle (quantum) comes from quantum field theory. From this point of view we estimate corrections to the free particle wave function due to minimum-length deformed quantum mechanics to the first order in the deformation parameter. Namely, in the matrix element 0|Φ(t,x)|p that in the standard case sets the free particle wave function exp(i[pxε(p)t]) there appear three kinds of corrections when the field operator is calculated by using the minimum-length deformed quantum mechanics. Starting from the standard (not modified at the classical level) Lagrangian, after the field quantization we get a modified dispersion relation, and besides that we find that the particle’s wave function contains a small fraction of an antiparticle wave function and the backscattered wave. The result leads to interesting implications for black hole physics.

  • Received 14 October 2010

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.84.044043

© 2011 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Micheal S. Berger1,* and Michael Maziashvili2,3,†

  • 1Physics Department, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA
  • 2Andronikashvili Institute of Physics, 6 Tamarashvili Street, Tbilisi 0177, Georgia
  • 3Center for Elementary Particle Physics, ITP, Ilia State University, 3-5 Cholokashvili Avenue, Tbilisi 0162, Georgia

  • *berger@indiana.edu
  • maziashvili@gmail.com

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Vol. 84, Iss. 4 — 15 August 2011

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