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Minimal and maximal lengths of quantum gravity from non-hermitian position-dependent noncommutativity.

Scientific Reports 2022 November 31
A minimum length scale of the order of Planck length is a feature of many models of quantum gravity that seek to unify quantum mechanics and gravitation. Recently, Perivolaropoulos in his seminal work (Perivolaropoulos in Phys. Rev. D 95:103523, 2017) predicted the simultaneous existence of minimal and maximal length measurements of quantum gravity. More recently, we have shown that both measurable lengths can be obtained from position-dependent noncommutativity (Lawson in J. Phys. A Math.Theor. 53:115303, 2020). In this paper, we present an alternative derivation of these lengths from non-Hermitian position-dependent noncommutativity. We show that a simultaneous measurement of both lengths form a family of discrete spaces. In one hand, we show the similarities between the maximal uncertainty measurement and the classical properties of gravity. On the other hand, the connection between the minimal uncertainties and the non-Hermicity quantum mechanic scenarios. The existence of minimal uncertainties are the consequences of non-Hermicities of some operators that are generators of this noncommutativity. With an appropriate Dyson map, we demonstrate by a similarity transformation that the physically meaningfulness of dynamical quantum systems is generated by a hidden Hermitian position-dependent noncommutativity. This transformation preserves the properties of quantum gravity but removes the fuzziness induced by minimal uncertainty measurements at this scale. Finally, we study the eigenvalue problem of a free particle in a square-well potential in these new Hermitian variables.

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