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Chameleons are scalar fields that couple directly to ordinary matter with gravitational strength, but which nevertheless evade the stringent constraints on tests of gravity because of properties they acquire in the presence of high ambient…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-13 Kurt Hinterbichler , Justin Khoury , Horatiu Nastase

In this work, we simulate the behavior of photons in a laboratory experiment using a quantum computer and examine how the simulation results compare with the theoretical predictions. The experiment involves both protective and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Priyasheel Prasad , Marco Russo , Bartolomeo Montrucchio

Recent developments in studies of multiparticle correlations in high energy particle collisions are reviewed. Both experimental data and theoretical results in quantum chromodynamics are discussed. Application of the developed methods to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 I. M. Dremin

Atom optics, a field which takes much inspiration from traditional optics, has advanced to the point that some of the fundamental experiments of quantum optics, involving photon correlations, have found atomic analogs. We discuss some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alain Aspect , Denis Boiron , Christoph Westbrook

It is possible that the low-energy effects of physics beyond the standard model can be parametrized mainly by anomalous couplings of quarks to the W boson. Such couplings can generate potentially significant contributions to various…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-23 Jusak Tandean

The stability of scalar quintessence potentials under quantum fluctuations is investigated both for uncoupled models and models with a coupling to fermions. We find that uncoupled models are usually stable in the late universe. However, a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Doran , Joerg Jaeckel

We investigate the cosmological dynamics of the recently proposed extended chameleon models at both background and linear perturbation levels. Dynamical systems techniques are employed to fully characterize the evolution of the universe at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-09 Nicola Tamanini , Matthew Wright

Efficient coupling of light to single atomic systems has gained considerable attention over the past decades. This development is driven by the continuous growth of quantum technologies. The efficient coupling of light and matter is an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-24 Markus Sondermann , Gerd Leuchs

A scalar field is a favorite candidate for the particle responsible for dark energy. However, few theoretical means exist that can simultaneously explain the observed acceleration of the Universe and evade tests of gravity. The chameleon…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-15 Jason H. Steffen

The chameleon model is a scalar field theory with a screening mechanism that explains how a cosmologically relevant light scalar can avoid the constraints of intra-solar-system searches for fifth-forces. The chameleon is a popular dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 Clare Burrage , Jeremy Sakstein

Experimental demonstrations of entangled quantum images produced through parametric downconversion have so far been confined to studying two photon correlations. Here we show that multiphoton correlations between quantum images are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Serge Massar , Fabrice Devaux , Eric Lantz

It was recently argued that the observed PVLAS anomaly can be explained by chameleon field theories in which large deviations from Newton's law can be avoided. Here we present the predictions for the dichroism and the birefringence induced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 P. Brax , C. van de Bruck , A. C. Davis , D. F. Mota , D. J. Shaw

The chameleon is a scalar field whose mass depends on the density of its environment. Chameleons are necessarily coupled to matter particles and will excite transitions between atomic energy levels in an analogous manner to photons. When…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-23 Philippe Brax , Clare Burrage

We consider the potential detection of chameleons using bouncing ultracold neutrons. We show that the presence of a chameleon field over a planar plate would alter the energy levels of ultra cold neutrons in the terrestrial gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Philippe Brax , Guillaume Pignol

Modelling of photonic devices traditionally involves solving the equations of light-matter interaction and light propagation, and it is restrained by their applicability. Here we demonstrate an alternative modelling methodology by creating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-21 Anton N. Vetlugin , Cesare Soci , Nikolay I. Zheludev

In a previous paper [Phys. Rev. D 97, 104044 (2018)] we pointed out some shortcomings of the standard approach to chameleon theories consisting in treating the small bodies used to test the weak equivalence principle (WEP) as test…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-22 Lucila Kraiselburd , Susana J. Landau , Marcelo Salgado , Daniel Sudarsky , Héctor Vucetich

We study the influence of running vacuum on the baryon-to-photon ratio in running vacuum models (RVMs). When there exists a non-minimal coupling between photons and other matter in the expanding universe, the energy-momentum tensor of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-23 Hao Yu , Ke Yang , Jin Li

The stability of scalar quintessence potentials under quantum fluctuations is investigated for both uncoupled models and models with a coupling to fermions. We find that uncoupled models are usually stable in the late universe. However, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Doran , J. Jaeckel

We study the atom-light interaction in the fully quantum regime, with focus on off-resonant light scattering into a cavity from ultracold atoms trapped in an optical lattice. The detection of photons allows the quantum nondemolition (QND)…

We extend the chameleon models by considering Scalar-Fluid theories where the coupling between matter and the scalar field can be represented by a quadratic effective potential with density-dependent minimum and mass. In this context, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-09 Philippe Brax , Nicola Tamanini