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We discuss the role of quantum coherence in the energy fluctuations of open quantum systems. To this aim, we introduce a protocol, to which we refer to as the end-point-measurement scheme, allowing to define the statistics of energy changes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 S. Gherardini , A. Belenchia , M. Paternostro , A. Trombettoni

Dynamical symmetry breaking in an expanding nuclear system is investigated in semi-classical and quantum framework by employing a collective transport model which is constructed to mimic the collective behavior of expanding systems. It is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Wen , P. Chau Huu-Tai , D. Lacroix , Ph. Chomaz , S. Ayik

High parton densities in ultra-relativistic nuclear collisions suggest a description of these collisions wherein the high energy nuclear wavefunctions and the initial stages of the nuclear collision are dominated by classical fields. This…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Kevin Dusling , Francois Gelis , Raju Venugopalan

We study the evolution of quantum fluctuations of a scalar field which is coupled to the geometry, in an exponentially expanding universe. We derive an expression for the spectrum of intrinsic perturbations, and it is shown that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Jelle Boersma

We compute initial conditions in heavy-ion collisions within the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) framework by combining the impact parameter dependent saturation model (IP-Sat) with the classical Yang-Mills description of initial Glasma…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2012-06-20 Bjoern Schenke , Prithwish Tribedy , Raju Venugopalan

A quantum fluctuation theorem for a driven quantum subsystem interacting with its environment is derived based solely on the assumption that its reduced density matrix obeys a closed evolution equation i.e. a quantum master equation (QME).…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-01 Massimiliano Esposito , Shaul Mukamel

According to the inflationary scenario for the very early Universe, all inhomogeneities in the Universe are of genuine quantum origin. On the other hand, looking at these inhomogeneities and measuring them, clearly no specific quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Kiefer , D. Polarski , A. A. Starobinsky

While the fluctuation theorem in classical systems has been thoroughly generalized under various feedback control setups, an intriguing situation in quantum systems, namely under continuous feedback, remains to be investigated. In this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-05-11 Toshihiro Yada , Nobuyuki Yoshioka , Takahiro Sagawa

We study the dynamics of quantum fluctuations which take place at the earliest stage of high-energy processes and the conditions under which the data from e-p deep-inelastic scattering may serve as an input for computing the initial data…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Makhlin , E. Surdutovich

A large number of multifaceted quantum transport processes in molecular systems and physical nanosystems can be treated in terms of quantum relaxation processes which couple to one or several fluctuating environments. A thermal equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor Goychuk , Peter Hanggi

We numerically analyse quantum survival probability fluctuations in an open, classically chaotic system. In a quasi-classical regime, and in the presence of classical mixed phase space, such fluctuations are believed to exhibit a fractal…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Giuliano Benenti , Giulio Casati , Italo Guarneri , Marcello Terraneo

The contribution from quantum vacuum fluctuations of a real massless scalar field to the motion of a test particle that interacts with the field in the presence of a perfectly reflecting flat boundary is here investigated. There is no…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-03 G. H. Camargo , V. A. De Lorenci , C. C. H. Ribeiro , F. F. Rodrigues , M. M. Silva

When a quantum many-particle system exists on a randomly diluted lattice, its intrinsic thermal and quantum fluctuations coexist with geometric fluctuations due to percolation. In this paper, we explore how the interplay of these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-23 Thomas Vojta , J. A. Hoyos

A Schroedinger picture analysis of time dependent quantum oscillators, in a manner of Guth and Pi, clearly identifies two physical mechanisms for possible decoherence of vacuum fluctuations in early universe: turning of quantum oscillators…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Milan Mijic

A time dependent variational approach is considered to derive the equations of movement for the $\lambda \phi^4$ model. The temporal evolution of the model is performed numerically in the frame of the Gaussian approximation in a lattice of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Fabio L. Braghin

We investigate quantum effects in the evolution of general systems. For studying such temporal quantum phenomena, it is paramount to have a rigorous concept and profound understanding of the classical dynamics in such a system in the first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-02 J. Sperling , I. A. Walmsley

Fast moving classical variables can generate quantum mechanical behavior. We demonstrate how this can happen in a model. The key point is that in classically (ontologically) evolving systems one can still define a conserved quantum energy.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-02 Gerard t Hooft

According to general relativity, the generic early-universe dynamics is chaotic. Various quantum-gravity effects have been suggested that may change this behavior in different ways. Here, it is shown how key mathematical properties of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-26 Martin Bojowald , David Brizuela , Paula Calizaya Cabrera , Sara F. Uria

The quantum to classical transition of fluctuations in the early universe is still not completely understood. Some headway has been made incorporating the effects of decoherence and the squeezing of states, though the methods and procedures…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-24 Fulvio Melia

Some physical effects of time averaged quantum electric field fluctuations are discussed. The one loop radiative correction to potential scattering are approximately derived from simple arguments which invoke vacuum electric field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-10 Haiyun Huang , L. H. Ford