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Garay Elizondo, Luis Javier (1998) Thermal properties of spacetime foam. Physical review D, 58 (12). ISSN 0556-2821
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.58.124015
Abstract
Spacetime foam can be modeled in terms of nonlocal effective interactions in a classical nonfluctuating background. Then, the density matrix for the low-energy fields evolves, in the weak-coupling approximation, according to a master equation that contains a diffusion term. Furthermore, it is argued that spacetime foam behaves as a quantum thermal field that, apart from inducing loss of coherence, gives rise to effects such as gravitational Lamb and Stark shifts as well as quantum damping in the evolution of the low-energy observables. These effects can be, at least in principle, experimentally tested. [S0556-2821(98)04524-X].
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | © 1998 The American Physical Society. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Quantum-gravity; Mixed states; Pure states; Black-holes; Evolution; Coherence; Mechanics; Wormholes |
| Subjects: | Sciences > Physics > Physics-Mathematical models Sciences > Physics > Mathematical physics |
| ID Code: | 29937 |
| Deposited On: | 21 May 2015 08:00 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Dec 2018 15:10 |
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