On first attempts to reconcile quantum principles with gravity

4th Young Researcher Meeting, Trieste 2013

Rocci, A.^1

Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia G. Galilei, Università Degli Studi di Padova, I-35131 Padova, Italy^1

关键词: Gravitational fields;    Quantum field theory;    Quantum gravity;    Wave mechanics;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1742-6596/470/1/012004/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1742-6596/470/1/012004

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

In his first paper of 1916 on gravitational waves Einstein began to speculate on interactions between the principles of the old quantum theory and his theory of gravitation. With this contribution Einstein has stimulated a lot of similar speculations, during the dawn and the development of Quantum Mechanics. These speculations have culminated with the first try to quantize the gravitational field, that was provided by Rosenfeld in 1930. In this paper we briefly explain why this period (1916-1930) should be inserted into the history of Quantum Gravity and then we focus on Klein's approach to the problem of reconciling Wave Mechanics with gravity, during the two-years period 1926-1927. His attempt should be looked as the prehistory of Quantum Field Theory in a curved background.