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Non-Unitary and Unitary Transitions in Generalized Quantum Mechanics, New Small Parameter and Information Problem Solving
Quantum Mechanics of the Early Universe is considered as deformation of a
well-known Quantum Mechanics. Similar to previous works of the author, the
principal approach is based on deformation of the density matrix with
concurrent development of the wave function deformation in the respective
Schr{\"o}dinger picture, the associated deformation parameter being interpreted
as a new small parameter. It is demonstrated that the existence of black holes
in the suggested approach in the end twice causes nonunitary transitions
resulting in the unitarity. In parallel this problem is considered in other
terms: entropy density, Heisenberg algebra deformation terms, respective
deformations of Statistical Mechanics, - all showing the identity of the basic
results. From this an explicit solution for Hawking's informaion paradox has
been derived.Comment: 18 page
Symmetry breaking aspects of the effective Lagrangian for quantum black holes
The physical excitations entering the effective Lagrangian for quantum black
holes are related to a Goldstone boson which is present in the Rindler limit
and is due to the spontaneous breaking of the translation symmetry of the
underlying Minkowski space. This physical interpretation, which closely
parallels similar well-known results for the effective stringlike description
of flux tubes in QCD, gives a physical insight into the problem of describing
the quantum degrees of freedom of black holes. It also suggests that the
recently suggested concept of 'black hole complementarity' emerges at the
effective Lagrangian level rather than at the fundamental level.Comment: 11 pages, Latex,1 figur
Wave Packets Propagation in Quantum Gravity
Wave packet broadening in usual quantum mechanics is a consequence of
dispersion behavior of the medium which the wave propagates in it. In this
paper, we consider the problem of wave packet broadening in the framework of
Generalized Uncertainty Principle(GUP) of quantum gravity. New dispersion
relations are derived in the context of GUP and it has been shown that there
exists a gravitational induced dispersion which leads to more broadening of the
wave packets. As a result of these dispersion relations, a generalized
Klein-Gordon equation is obtained and its interpretation is given.Comment: 9 pages, no figur
A Multi Megawatt Cyclotron Complex to Search for CP Violation in the Neutrino Sector
A Multi Megawatt Cyclotron complex able to accelerate H2+ to 800 MeV/amu is
under study. It consists of an injector cyclotron able to accelerate the
injected beam up to 50 MeV/n and of a booster ring made of 8 magnetic sectors
and 8 RF cavities. The magnetic field and the forces on the superconducting
coils are evaluated using the 3-D code OPERA. The injection and extraction
trajectories are evaluated using the well tested codes developed by the MSU
group in the '80s. The advantages to accelerate H2+ are described and
preliminary evaluations on the feasibility and expected problems to build the
injector cyclotron and the ring booster are here presented.Comment: Presentation at Cyclotron'10 conference, Lanzhou, China, Sept 7, 201
Geophysical constraint on a relic background of the dilatons
According to a scenario in string cosmology, a relic background of light
dilatons can be a significant component of the dark matter in the Universe. A
new approach of searching for such a dilatonic background by observing Earth's
surface gravity was proposed in my previous work. In this paper, the concept of
the geophysical search is briefly reviewed, and the geophysical constraint on
the dilaton background is presented as a function of the strength of the
dilaton coupling, . For simplicity, I focus on massless dilatons and
assume a simple Earth model. With the current upper limit on , we obtain
the upper limit on the dimensionless energy density of the massless background,
, which is about one-order of
magnitude more stringent than the one from astrophysical observations, at the
frequency of 7 10 Hz. If the magnitude of is
experimentally found to be smaller than the current upper limit by one order of
magnitude, the geophysical upper limit on becomes less
stringent and comparable to the one obtained from the astrophysical
observations.Comment: 6 pages, Proceedings for the 8th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on
Gravitational Waves, 21-26 June, 2009, Columbia University, New York, US
Gravitational Wave Bursts from Cosmic Superstrings with Y-junctions
Cosmic superstring loops generically contain strings of different tensions
that meet at Y-junctions. These loops evolve non-periodically in time, and have
cusps and kinks that interact with the junctions. We study the effect of
junctions on the gravitational wave signal emanating from cosmic string cusps
and kinks. We find that earlier results on the strength of individual bursts
from cusps and kinks on strings without junctions remain largely unchanged, but
junctions give rise to additional contributions to the gravitational wave
signal coming from strings expanding at the speed of light at a junction and
kinks passing through a junction.Comment: 20 pages, 5 figure
Sensitivity of spherical gravitational-wave detectors to a stochastic background of non-relativistic scalar radiation
We analyze the signal-to-noise ratio for a relic background of scalar
gravitational radiation composed of massive, non-relativistic particles,
interacting with the monopole mode of two resonant spherical detectors. We find
that the possible signal is enhanced with respect to the differential mode of
the interferometric detectors. This enhancement is due to: {\rm (a)} the
absence of the signal suppression, for non-relativistic scalars, with respect
to a background of massless particles, and {\rm (b)} for flat enough spectra, a
growth of the signal with the observation time faster than for a massless
stochastic background.Comment: four pages, late
Removing the Big Bang Singularity: The role of the generalized uncertainty principle in quantum gravity
The possibility of avoiding the big bang singularity by means of a
generalized uncertainty principle is investigated. In relation with this
matter, the statistical mechanics of a free-particle system obeying the
generalized uncertainty principle is studied and it is shown that the entropy
of the system has a finite value in the infinite temperature limit. It is then
argued that negative temperatures and negative pressures are possible in this
system. Finally, it is shown that this model can remove the big bang
singularity.Comment: 8 pages, Accepted for publication in Astrophysics & Space Scienc
Gravitational radiative corrections from effective field theory
In this paper we construct an effective field theory (EFT) that describes
long wavelength gravitational radiation from compact systems. To leading order,
this EFT consists of the multipole expansion, which we describe in terms of a
diffeomorphism invariant point particle Lagrangian. The EFT also systematically
captures "post-Minkowskian" corrections to the multipole expansion due to
non-linear terms in general relativity. Specifically, we compute long distance
corrections from the coupling of the (mass) monopole moment to the quadrupole
moment, including up to two mass insertions. Along the way, we encounter both
logarithmic short distance (UV) and long wavelength (IR) divergences. We show
that the UV divergences can be (1) absorbed into a renormalization of the
multipole moments and (2) resummed via the renormalization group. The IR
singularities are shown to cancel from properly defined physical observables.
As a concrete example of the formalism, we use this EFT to reproduce a number
of post-Newtonian corrections to the gravitational wave energy flux from
non-relativistic binaries, including long distance effects up to 3PN ()
order. Our results verify that the factorization of scales proposed in the NRGR
framework of Goldberger and Rothstein is consistent up to order 3PN.Comment: 37 pages, LaTeX. Published versio
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