INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, May 1995

From: The Second DAFNE Physics Handbook

Chapter 2: Topics in Quantum Mechanics

Eds. L. Maiani, G. Pancheri, N. Paver

Supported by the INFN, by the EC under the HCM contract number CHRX-CT920026 and by the authors home institutions.



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Non-Critical-String-Inspired Modifications of Quantum Mechanics


N.E. Mavromatos
Laboratoire de Physique Thèorique ENSLAPP (URA 14-36 du CNRS, associeè à l' E.N.S de Lyon, et au LAPP (IN2P3-CNRS) d'Annecy-le-Vieux), Chemin de Bellevue, BP 110, F-74941 Annecy-le-Vieux Cedex, France.
On leave from S.E.R.C. Advanced Fellowship, Dept. of Physics (Theoretical Physics), University of Oxford, 1 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3NP, U.K.

Abstract:

Recently, together with J. Ellis and D.V. Nanopoulos, we have proposed a new approach to the concept of time in non-critical (Liouville) string theory associated with singular space-time backgrounds of quantum gravity. Among the most important physical aspects of this approach is the emergence of a microscopic arrow of time, CPT violation, conservation of energy on the average, and the possible apparent non-conservation of angular momentum in the effective (observable) low-energy sector of the theory. In this work we review the application of a phenomenological parametrization of this formalism to the neutral kaon system.





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