Low temperature motion of hydrogen on metal surfaces signals breakdown of quantum mechanics in 3+1 dimensions

6th International Workshop DICE2012 Spacetime – Matter – Quantum Mechanics: From the Planck Scale to Emergent Phenomena

物理学;力学

Drakova, D.^1 ; Doyen, G.^1

Faculty of Chemistry, University of Sofia, Bulgaria Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, München, Germany^1

关键词: Adsorbate motions;    Copenhagen interpretation;    High dimensional space-time;    Orders of magnitude;    Quantum diffusion;    Rabi oscillations;    Telegraph signals;    Time-dependent equations;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/442/1/012049/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/442/1/012049

学科分类：力学，机械学

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

The low temperature motion of hydrogen on solid metal surfaces displays some unexplained experimental features: in the quantum diffusion regime more than nine orders of magnitude difference between the diffusion rates on different metal surfaces have been measured, the lowest diffusion rates being established in the low temperature scanning tunnelling microscope. Furthermore telegraph-signal-like adsorption site change, rather than Rabi oscillations predicted by Schrodinger equation in 3+1 dimensions, is observed, signaling the breakdown of quantum mechanics in 3+1 dimensions. A theory is presented to resolve these problems, involving the entanglement of the adsorbate motion to gravitons in high-dimensional spacetime. Soft local massive gravonons, induced in the presence of the adsorbate, determine the time scale for surface diffusion. The γη-model is used for the evaluation of the soft gravonon modes. Weak and local entanglement of the adsorbate motion with a nearly degenerate graviton continuum of high density of states are the conditions for the telegraph-signal-like time development of adsorption site change. In contrast to the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, this apparent "classical" behaviour of the adsorbate in 3+1 dimensional spacetime is the result of the solution of Schrodinger's time dependent equation in high-dimensional spacetime.