Author(s)

Mario C. Rocca^1,2,3*, Angelo Plastino^1,3,4

¹Departamento de Física, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina.
²Departamento de Matemática, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina.
³Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (IFLP-CCT-CONICET), La Plata, Argentina.
⁴SThAR-EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.

In this work we will use a recently developed non relativistic (NR) quantization methodology that successfully overcomes troubles with infinities that plague non-renormalizable quantum field theories (QFTs). The ensuing methodology is here applied to Newton’s gravitation potential. We employ here the concomitant mathematical apparatus to formulate the NR QFT discussed in the well known classical text-book by Fetter and Walecka. We emphasize the fact that we speak of non relativistic QFT. This is so because we appeal to Newton’s gravitational potential, while in a relativistic QFT one does not employ potentials. Our main protagonist is the notion of propagator. This notion is of the essence in non relativistic quantum field theory (NR-QFT). Indeed, propagators are indispensable tools for both nuclear physics and condensed matter theory, among other disciplines. In the present work we deal with propagators for both fermions and bosons.

Non-Relativistic Quantum Field Theory, Newton’s Gravity, Schwartz’ Distributions

Rocca, M. and Plastino, A. (2020) Quantization of Newton’s Gravity. Journal of Modern Physics, 11, 920-927. doi: 10.4236/jmp.2020.116056.