The Entropic Dynamics of Quantum Scalar Fields Coupled to Gravity

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.05036v2
• Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 20:49:49 GMT
• Title: The Entropic Dynamics of Quantum Scalar Fields Coupled to Gravity
• Authors: Selman Ipek and Ariel Caticha
• Abstract summary: We propose a model for a quantum scalar field propagating in a dynamical space-time. Rather than modelling the dynamics of the fields, ED models the dynamics of their probabilities. A particularly significant prediction of this ED model is that the coupling of quantum fields to gravity implies violations of the quantum superposition principle.
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• Abstract: Entropic dynamics (ED) is a general framework for constructing indeterministic dynamical models based on entropic methods. ED has been used to derive or reconstruct both non-relativistic quantum mechanics and quantum field theory in curved space-time. Here we propose a model for a quantum scalar field propagating in a dynamical space-time. The approach rests on a few key ingredients: (1) Rather than modelling the dynamics of the fields, ED models the dynamics of their probabilities. (2) In accordance with the standard entropic methods of inference the dynamics is dictated by information encoded in constraints. (3) The choice of the physically relevant constraints is dictated by principles of symmetry and invariance. The first such principle imposes the preservation of a symplectic structure which leads to a Hamiltonian formalism with its attendant Poisson brackets and action principle. The second symmetry principle is foliation invariance, which following earlier work by Hojman, Kuchar, and Teitelboim, is implemented as a requirement of path independence. The result is a hybrid ED model that approaches quantum field theory in one limit and classical general relativity in another, but is not fully described by either. A particularly significant prediction of this ED model is that the coupling of quantum fields to gravity implies violations of the quantum superposition principle.

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