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Relativistic generalization of the Schrödinger-Newton model for the wavefunction reduction

    https://doi.org/10.1142/S0217751X20400175Cited by:2 (Source: Crossref)
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    We consider the model of the self-gravity driven spontaneous wavefunction reduction proposed by L. Diosi, R. Penrose et al. and based on a self-consistent system of Schrödinger and Poisson equations. An analogous system of coupled Dirac and Maxwell-like equations is proposed as a relativization. Regular solutions to the latter form a discrete spectrum in which all the “active” gravitational masses are always positive, and approximately equal to inertial masses and to the mass m of the quanta of Dirac field up to the corrections of order α2. Here α=(m/Mpl)2 is the gravitational analogue of the fine structure constant negligibly small for nucleons. In the limit α=0 the model reduces back to the nonrelativistic Schrödinger-Newton one. The equivalence principle is fulfilled with an extremely high precision. The above solutions correspond to various states of the same (free) particle rather than to different particles. These states possess a negligibly small difference in characteristics but essentially differ in the widths of the wavefunctions. For the ground state the latter is α times larger the Compton length, so that a nucleon cannot be sufficiently localized to model the reduction process.

    PACS: 03.50.Kk, 03.65.Ta, 03.65.Ge
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