Planck scale effects on some low energy quantum phenomena
| dc.contributor.author | Das, Saurya | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mann, R. B. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-01-19T23:27:29Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-01-19T23:27:29Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-01-19 | |
| dc.description | Sherpa Romeo green journal. Open access article. Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) applies. | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Almost all theories of Quantum Gravity predict modifications of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle near the Planck scale to a so-called Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP). Recently it was shown that the GUP gives rise to corrections to the Schr¨odinger and Dirac equations, which in turn affect all non-relativistic and relativistic quantum Hamiltonians. In this paper, we apply it to superconductivity and the quantum Hall effect and compute Planck scale corrections. We also show that Planck scale effects may account for a (small) part of the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. We obtain (weak) empirical bounds on the undetermined GUP parameter from present-day experiments. | en_US |
| dc.description.peer-review | Yes | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Das, S., & Mann, R. B. (2011). Planck scale effects on some low energy quantum phenomena. Physics Letters B, 704(5), 596-599. doi: 10.1016/j.physlet.2011.09.056 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10133/3870 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_CA | en_US |
| dc.publisher.department | Department of Physics and Astronomy | en_US |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Arts and Science | en_US |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Lethbridge | en_US |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Waterloo | en_US |
| dc.subject | Quantum gravity | en_US |
| dc.subject | Heisenberg uncertainty principle | en_US |
| dc.subject | Generalized uncertainty principle | en_US |
| dc.subject | GUP | en_US |
| dc.subject | Planck | en_US |
| dc.title | Planck scale effects on some low energy quantum phenomena | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |