Overview
- Approaches quantum gravity in a novel, quasi-classical way
- Provides a review of a field very much in need of one
- Gives a much clearer picture of the difference between classical and quantum behaviors
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 993)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book seeks to present a new way of thinking about the interaction of gravitational fields with quantum systems. Despite the massive amounts of research and experimentation, the myriad meetings, seminars and conferences, all of the articles, treatises and books, and the seemingly endless theorization, quantization and just plain speculation that have been engaged in regarding our evolving understanding of the quantum world, that world remains an enigma, even to the experts. The usefulness of general relativity in this regard has proven to be imperfect at best, but there is a new approach. We do not simply have to accept the limitations of Einstein's most celebrated theorem in regard to quantum theory; we can also embrace them, and thereby utilize them, to reveal new facts about the behavior of quantum systems within inertial and gravitational fields, and therefore about the very structure of space–time at the quantum level. By taking existing knowledge of the essential functionality of spin (along with the careful identification of the omnipresent inertial effects) and applying it to the quantum world, the book gives the reader a much clearer picture of the difference between the classical and quantum behaviors of a particle, shows that Einstein's ideas may not be as incompatible within this realm as many have come to believe, sparks new revelations of the way in which gravity affects quantum systems and brings a new level of efficiency—quantum efficiency, if you will—to the study of gravitational theory.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
G. Lambiase is Professor at the UniversitĂ di Salerno, Italy. He serves as National Coordinator of the INFN project and Local Coordinator of FARB grant. He has been Member of the local team of the PRIN and of the International Ph.D. in Physics in "Gravitational Physics and Astrophysics" at the University of Salerno, a joint operation with Portsmouth University (GB) and Zurich University (CH). He also has served as Adviser at the International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies, Vietri sul Mare, Italy. His main fields of interest are quantum field theory, general theories of gravity, astroparticles, astrophysics and cosmology.
G. Papini is Professor emeritus at the University of Regina, Canada, as well as Professor and Head of that same school’s Physics Department. He is Adviser at the International Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies, Vietri sul Mare, Italy; the Institute of Field Physics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C. USA; and the Institute for Advanced Studies, Dublin, Ireland. His main fields of interest are the interaction of gravity with quantum systems, the general theory of relativity and relativistic theories of gravitation.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Interaction of Spin with Gravity in Particle Physics
Book Subtitle: Low Energy Quantum Gravity
Authors: Gaetano Lambiase, Giorgio Papini
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84771-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84770-8Published: 28 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-84771-5Published: 27 September 2021
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 190
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory, Particle and Nuclear Physics, Quantum Physics, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Astrophysics and Astroparticles