An Entropic Force Schr\"odringer mechanism for Dark Matter generation

TL;DR

This paper proposes a Schr"odringer mechanism based on entropic gravity to explain dark matter as emergent quantum gravitational states resulting from quantum effects at short distances.

Contribution

It introduces a novel Schr"odringer mechanism that uncovers new quantum gravitational states linked to emergent energy, expanding the entropic gravity framework.

Findings

Identification of new quantum gravitational states

Connection between emergent energy and dark matter

Deviation from Newtonian gravity at short distances

Abstract

Theorists of entropic (emergent) gravity put forward that what has been regarded as unobserved dark matter might instead be the product of quantum effects that can be looked at as emergent energy (EE). Here we describe a novel Schr\"odringer mechanism (SM). This SM uncovers the existence of new quantum gravitational states that could be associated to the above mentioned EE. This is done on the basis of the microscopic Verlinde-like entropic force advanced in [Physica A {\bf 511} (2018) 139], that deviates from the Newton's form at extremely short distances.