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We propose a new approach to calculate perturbatively the effects of a particular deformed Heisenberg algebra on energy spectrum. We use this method to calculate the harmonic oscillator spectrum and find that corrections are in agreement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Brau

This paper posits the existence of, and finds a candidate for, a variable change that allows quantum mechanics to be interpreted as quantum geometry. The Bohr model of the Hydrogen atom is thought of in terms of an indeterministic electron…

General Physics · Physics 2019-05-17 Robert L. Navin

Recent work has shown that the stress tensor components, such as energy density or pressure, of a quantum field can be subject to large vacuum fluctuations. The energy density or pressure must be averaged in time before the fluctuations can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-21 L. H. Ford

Quantum fluctuations in the density of a fluid with a linear phonon dispersion relation are studied. In particular, we treat the changes in these fluctuations due to non-classical states of phonons and to the presence of boundaries. These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 L. H. Ford , N. F. Svaiter

Spatial fluctuations of the effective pairing interaction between electrons in a superconductor induce variations of the order parameter which in turn lead to significant changes in the density of states. In addition to an overall reduction…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-07 Julia S. Meyer , B. D. Simons

In this paper we will demonstrate that like the existence of a minimum measurable length, the existence of a maximum measurable momentum, also influence all quantum mechanical systems. Beyond the simple one dimensional case, the existence…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-02-24 Mir Faizal

Recent improvements in the determination of the running of the fine-structure constant also allow an update of the hadronic vacuum-polarization contribution to the Lamb shift. We find a shift of -3.40(7) kHz to the 1S level of hydrogen. We…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 J. L. Friar , J. Martorell , D. W. L. Sprung

There are theoretical frameworks, such as the large extra dimension models, which predict the strengthening of the gravitational field in short distances. Here we obtain new empiric constraints for deviations of standard gravity in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-15 A. S. Lemos , G. C. Luna , E. Maciel , F. Dahia

The thermodynamics of hot and dense matter created in heavy-ion collision experiments are usually studied as a system of infinite volume. Here we report on possible effects for considering a finite system size for such matter in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-04-16 Abhijit Bhattacharyya , Rajarshi Ray , Subhasis Samanta , Subrata Sur

We investigate entanglement dynamics for two atoms coupling with fluctuating electromagnetic field in the cosmic string spacetime. We calculate the entanglement for different conditions. It is found that the entanglement behaviors are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 Zhiming Huang

Quantum interference between energetically close states is theoretically investigated, with the state structure being observed via laser spectroscopy. In this work, we focus on hyperfine states of selected hydrogenic muonic isotopes, and on…

In the literature of calculating atomic and molecular structures, most Schrodinger equations are described by Coulomb potential. However, there are also a few literatures that discuss some magnetic correction methods, such as Pauli and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-29 Yu-kuo Zhao , Yu-xin Dong

Gravitons in a squeezed vacuum state, the natural result of quantum creation in the early universe or by black holes, will introduce metric fluctuations. These metric fluctuations will introduce fluctuations of the lightcone. It is shown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 L. H. Ford

This paper continues the analysis of bound quantum systems started in (T. Yarman, A.L. Kholmetskii and O.V. Missevitch. Going from classical to quantum description of bound charged particles. Part 1: basic concepts and assertions), based on…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2011-03-22 T. Yarman , A. L. Kholmetskii , O. V. Missevitch

Standard results for the fluctuations of thermodynamic quantities are derived under the assumption of sampling identical systems that are in different, not fully equilibrated states. These results apply to fluctuations with time in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. A. Serota

We study the Brownian motion of a charged test particle coupled to electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations near a perfectly reflecting plane boundary. The presence of the boundary modifies the quantum fluctuations of the electric field, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hongwei Yu , L. H. Ford

Quantum fluctuations in spacetime can, in some cases, lead to distortion in astronomical images of faraway objects. In particular, a stochastic model of quantum gravity predicts an accumulated fluctuation in the path length $\Delta L$ with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-24 Vincent S. H. Lee , Kathryn M. Zurek , Yanbei Chen

We derive a new relation between the observed Lamb shift energies of hydrogen and muonium atoms. The relation is based on the non-relativistic description of the Lamb shift, and the proper treatment of the reduced mass of electron and…

The fine structure interval of P states in hydrogenlike systems can be determined theoretically with high precision, because the energy levels of P states are only slightly influenced by the structure of the nucleus. Therefore a measurement…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 U. D. Jentschura , G. Soff , P. J. Mohr

Direct correlation between temporal structural fluctuations and electron wind force is demonstrated, for the first time, by STM imaging and analysis of atomically-resolved motion on a thin film surface under large applied current (10e5…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Bondarchuk , W. G. Cullen , M. Degawa , Ellen D. Williams