On Nonlinear Quantum Mechanics, Noncommutative Phase Spaces, Fractal-Scale Calculus and Vacuum Energy

Sep, 2010
19 pages
Published in:
  • Found.Phys. 40 (2010) 1712-1730

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Abstract: (Springer)
A (to our knowledge) novel Generalized Nonlinear Schrödinger equation based on the modifications of Nottale-Cresson’s fractal-scale calculus and resulting from the noncommutativity of the phase space coordinates is explicitly derived. The modifications to the ground state energy of a harmonic oscillator yields the observed value of the vacuum energy density. In the concluding remarks we discuss how nonlinear and nonlocal QM wave equations arise naturally from this fractal-scale calculus formalism which may have a key role in the final formulation of Quantum Gravity.
  • Noncommutative phase spaces
  • Nonlinear Quantum Mechanics
  • Scale fractal calculus
  • Vacuum energy