The dynamics of the Schrödinger–Newton system with self-field coupling

Abstract

We probe the dynamics of a modified form of the Schrödinger-Newton system of gravity coupled to single particle quantum mechanics. At the masses of interest here, the ones associated with the onset of "collapse" (where the gravitational attraction is competitive with the quantum mechanical dissipation), we show that the Schrödinger ground state energies match the Dirac ones with an error of ∼ 10%. At the Planck mass scale, we predict the critical mass at which a potential collapse could occur for the self-coupled gravitational case, m ≈ 3.3 Planck mass, and show that gravitational attraction opposes Gaussian spreading at around this value, which is a factor of two higher than the one predicted (and verified) for the Schrödinger-Newton system. Unlike the Schrödinger-Newton dynamics, we do not find that the self-coupled case tends to decay towards its ground state; there is no collapse in this case. * jfrankli@reed.edu 1 arXiv:1603.03380v1 [gr-qc]

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