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arXiv:quant-ph/9710009

Extension of the Staruszkiewicz Modification of the Schroedinger Equation

Waldemar Puszkarz

Published Oct 2, 1997• 1 citation
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Abstract

We present an extension of Staruszkiewicz's modification of the Schrödinger equation which preserves its main and unique feature: in the natural system of units the modification terms do not contain any dimensional constants. The extension, similarly as the original, is formulated in a three-dimensional space and derives from a Galilean invariant Lagrangian. It is pointed out that this model of nonlinearity violates the separability of compound systems in the fundamentalist approach to this issue. In its general form, this modification does not admit stationary states for all potentials for which such states exist in linear quantum mechanics. This is, however, possible for a suitable choice of its free parameters. It is only in the original Staruszkiewicz modification that the energy of these states remains unchanged, which marks the uniqueness of this variant of the modification.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.quant-ph/9710009

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We discuss Staruszkiewicz's nonlinear modification of the Schrödinger equation. It is pointed out that the expression for the energy functional for this modification is not unique as the field-theoretical definition of energy does not coincide with the quantum-mechanical one. As a result, this modification can be formulated in three different ways depending on which physically relevant properties one aims to preserve. Some nonstationary one-dimensional solutions for suitably chosen potentials, including a KdV soliton, are presented, and the question of finding stationary solutions is also discussed. The analysis of physical and mathematical features of the modification leads to the conclusion that the Staruszkiewicz modification is a very subtle modification of the fundamental equation of quantum mechanics.
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