Gravitizing the Quantum

TL;DR

This paper proposes a novel approach to quantum gravity where quantum structures like the Fubini-Study metric become dynamic, aiming to unify quantum mechanics and gravity while allowing topology change and testability via interference and atomic clocks.

Contribution

It introduces a framework where quantum geometric structures are dynamical, integrating quantum gravity principles with unitarity and topology change, and suggests experimental tests.

Findings

Quantum geometry becomes dynamical in the proposed model.

The approach maintains unitarity and allows topology change.

Potential experimental tests include multi-path interference and atomic clocks.

Abstract

We discuss a new approach to the problem of quantum gravity in which the quantum mechanical structures that are traditionally fixed, such as the Fubini-Study metric in the Hilbert space of states, become dynamical and so implement the idea of gravitizing the quantum. In particular, in this formulation of quantum gravity the quantum geometry is still consistent with the principles of unitarity and also captures fundamental aspects of (quantum) gravity, such as topology change. Furthermore, we address specific ways of testing this new approach to quantum gravity by utilizing multi-path interference and optical lattice atomic clocks.