Minimum length from quantum mechanics and classical general relativity

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 93, Issue 21, 2004, Pages

  Calmet, Xavier ^a   Graesser, Michael ^a   Hsu, Stephen D H ^a,b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPTON WAVELENGTH; GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE; PLANCK LENGTH; PLANCK MASS;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; INTERFEROMETERS; KINETIC ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; OSCILLATORS (MECHANICAL); PHOTONS; RELATIVITY;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 42749108319     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.211101     Document Type: Article

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