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We investigate the structure of quantum proof systems by establishing collapse results that reveal simplifications in their complexity landscape. By extending classical theorems such as the Karp-Lipton theorem to quantum settings and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Kartik Anand , Kabgyun Jeong , Junseo Lee

We argue that scale invariance is not anomalous in quantum field theory, provided it is broken cosmologically. We consider a locally scale invariant extension of the Standard Model of particle physics and argue that it fits both the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-08-19 Pankaj Jain , Subhadip Mitra

The basic strategy underlying models of spontaneous wave function collapse (collapse models) is to modify the Schroedinger equation by including nonlinear stochastic terms, which tend to localize wave functions in space in a dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 A. Bassi , H. Ulbricht

Quantum mechanics gives many versions of reality but we perceive only one. One potential explanation for this, the one considered here, is that the wave function collapses down to just one version. The experimental situation is briefly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-28 Casey Blood

The quantum superposition principle is reexamined and reformulated based on the adiabatic theorem of quantum mechanics, nonadiabatic dressed states and experimental evidences. The collapse of the wave function and the quantum measurement…

General Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 I. G. Koprinkov

We add non-linear and state-dependent terms to quantum field theory. We show that the resulting low-energy theory, non-linear quantum mechanics, is causal, preserves probability and permits a consistent description of the process of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-10 David E. Kaplan , Surjeet Rajendran

In hybrid classical-quantum theories, the dynamics of the classical system induce the classicality of the quantum system, meaning that such models do not necessarily require a measurement postulate to describe probabilistic measurement…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-28 Zachary Weller-Davies

Developing an earlier proposal (Ne'eman, Damnjanovic, etc), we show herein that there is a Landau continuous phase transition from the exact quantum dynamics to the effectively classical one, occurring via spontaneous superposition breaking…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladan Pankovic , Tristan Hubsch , Milan Predojevic , Miodrag Krmar

Measurements transfer information about a system to the apparatus, and then further on -- to observers and (often inadvertently) to the environment. I show that even imperfect copying essential in such situations restricts possible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Wojciech Hubert Zurek

The behaviour of a relativistic scalar particle in a possible scenario that arises from the violation of the Lorentz symmetry is investigated. The background of the Lorentz symmetry violation is defined by a tensor field that governs the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-02 K. Bakke , H. Belich

The recent robust and homogeneous analysis of the world's supernova distance-redshift data, together with cosmic microwave background and baryon acoustic oscillation data, provides a powerful tool for constraining cosmological models. Here…

The Cosmic Defect theory has been confronted with four observational constraints: primordial nuclear species abundances emerging from the big bang nucleosynthesis; large scale structure formation in the universe; cosmic microwave background…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 N. Radicella , M. Sereno , A. Tartaglia

Efficacious quantum information processing relies on extended coherence and precise control. Investigating the limitations surrounding quantum processors is vital for their advancement. In their operation, one challenge is inadvertent wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Alfred Li , Herschel A. Rabitz , Benjamin Lienhard

Quantum cosmology has traditionally been studied at the level of symmetry-reduced minisuperspace models, analyzing the behavior of wave functions. However, in the absence of a complete full setting of quantum gravity and detailed knowledge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-09-18 Martin Bojowald

Two fundamental, and unsolved problems in physics are: i) the resolution of the "measurement problem" in quantum mechanics ii) the quantization of strongly nonlinear (nonabelian) gauge theories. The aim of this paper is to suggest that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Johan Hansson

This paper has few different, but interrelated, goals. At first, we will propose a version of discretization of quantum field theory (Chapter 3). We will write down Lagrangians for sample bosonic fields (Section 3.1) and also attempt to…

General Physics · Physics 2012-03-14 Roman Sverdlov

This paper studies the Kalman decomposition for linear quantum systems. Contrary to the classical case, the coordinate transformation used for the decomposition must belong to a specific class of transformations as a consequence of the laws…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-13 Guofeng Zhang , Symeon Grivopoulos , Ian R. Petersen , John E. Gough

The specific advance of this work is to propose a mechanism by which superpositions collapse during measurement of the separated subsystems of entangled quantum states. It is shown how the phase that locks together entangled states plays a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Gregory D. Scholes

We argue for a relation between the supersymmetry breaking scale and the measured value of the dark energy density $\Lambda$. We derive it by combining two quantum gravity consistency swampland constraints, which tie the dark energy density…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-17 Luis A. Anchordoqui , Ignatios Antoniadis , Niccolò Cribiori , Dieter Lust , Marco Scalisi

The so-called classical limit of quantum mechanics is generally studied in terms of the decoherence of the state operator that characterizes a system. This is not the only possible approach to decoherence. In previous works we have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Sebastian Fortin , Leonardo Vanni