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$\hbar$ as parameter of Minkowski metric in effective theory
G. E. Volovikab a Low Temperature Laboratory, Helsinki University of Technology, FIN-02015 HUT, Finland
b Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics RAS
Аннотация:
With the proper choice of the dimensionality of the metric components and matter field variables, the action for all fields becomes dimensionless. Such quantities as the vacuum speed of light
$c$, the Planck constant
$\hbar$, the electric charge
$e$, the particle mass
$m$, the Newton constant
$G$ never enter equations written in the covariant form, i.e., via the metric
$g^{\mu\nu}$. The speed of light
$c$ and the Planck constant
$\hbar$ are parameters of a particular two-parametric family of solutions of general relativity equations describing the flat isotropic Minkowski vacuum in effective theory emerging at low energy: $g^{\mu\nu}_\mathrm{Minkowski}=\mathrm{diag}(-\hbar^2,(\hbar c)^2,(\hbar c)^2,(\hbar c)^2)$. They parametrize the equilibrium quantum vacuum state. The physical quantities which enter the covariant equations are dimensionless quantities and quantities which have dimension of rest energy
$M$ or its power. Dimensionless quantities include the running coupling ‘constants’
$\alpha_i$; the geometric
$\theta$-parameters which enter topological terms in action; and geometric charges coming from the group theory, such as angular momentum quantum number
$j$, weak charge, electric charge
$q$, hypercharge, baryonic and leptonic charges, number of atoms
$N$, etc. Dimensionful parameters are mass matrices with dimension of
$M$; gravitational coupling
$K$ with
$[K]=[M]^2$; cosmological constant with dimension
$M^4$; etc. In effective theory, the interval
$s$ has the dimension of
$1/M$; it characterizes dynamics of particles in quantum vacuum rather than space-time geometry. The action is dimensionless reflecting equivalence between action and the phase of a wave function in quantum mechanics. We discuss the effective action, and the measured physical quantities including parameters of metrology triangle.
PACS:
03.65.-w,
04.20.-q, 05.20.Jr
Поступила в редакцию: 02.11.2009
Исправленный вариант: 09.11.2009
Язык публикации: английский