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GR: Fachverband Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie

GR 14: Poster Session (posters are permanently on display)

GR 14.5: Poster

Thursday, March 21, 2019, 16:30–18:30, HS 6

Quantum mechanics in non-inertial frames — •André Großardt — Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom — Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena

Separability of the centre of mass and internal motion serves as a helpful tool when studying the dynamics of non-relativistic complex quantum systems. When special or general relativistic corrections to the dynamics are taken into account, separability is lost and the very definition of a centre of mass becomes ambiguous. We present a framework in which relativistic corrections can be treated in a well-defined and systematic way. Consequences with regard to different effects, decoherence effects in particular, are discussed, as well as open problems.