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We study the effects of a static and uniform magnetic field on the evolution of energy density fluctuations present in a medium. By numerically solving the relativistic Boltzmann-Vlasov equation within the relaxation time approximation, we…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-06-01 Shreyansh S. Dave , Subrata Pal

This review paper comprehensively examines the influence of spatial torsion on quantum fluctuations from the perspectives of Metric-Affine Gravity (MAG) and the Stochastic Variational Method (SVM). We first outline the fundamental framework…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-19 Tomoi Koide , Armin van de Venn

We investigate the effect of quantum metric fluctuations on qubits that are gravitationally coupled to a background spacetime. In our first example, we study the propagation of a qubit in flat spacetime whose metric is subject to flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Pieter Kok , Ulvi Yurtsever

We present an extension of quantum field theory to the case when the spacetime topology fluctuates (spacetime foam). In this extension the number of bosonic fields becomes a variable and the ground state is characterized by a finite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Kirillov

Using the Langevin approach and the multiscale technique, a kinetic theory of the time and space nonlocal fluctuations in the collisional plasma is constructed. In local equilibrium a generalized version of the Callen-Welton theorem is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Belyi

The study of physics at the Planck scale has garnered significant attention due to its implications for understanding the fundamental nature of the universe. At the Planck scale, quantum fluctuations challenge the classical notion of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-26 Weihu Ma , Yu-Gang Ma

This dissertation presents the first theoretical investigation of the Lamb shift in a light-front hamiltonian approach: the dominant part of the splitting between the 2S(1/2) and 2P(1/2) energy levels in hydrogen is calculated. Also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 Billy D. Jones

This study discusses the quantum behavior of a particle, which is controlled by fluctuations in the physical space-time (ST) variables, rather than provides a novel interpretation of quantum theory. The fluctuations, i.e., inhomogeneities…

General Physics · Physics 2012-06-15 Valery Egorushkin

The theory of mesoscopic fluctuations is applied to inhomogeneous solids consisting of chaotically distributed regions with different crystalline structure. This approach makes it possible to describe statistical properties of such mixture…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 V. I. Yukalov

The low-energy theorem for the forward Compton scattering is generalized to the case of an arbitrary target spin. The generalization is used to calculate the corresponding contribution to the deuterium hyperfine structure. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 I. B. Khriplovich , A. I. Milstein , S. S. Petrosyan

The quantum space-time model which accounts material Reference Frames (RF) quantum effects considered for flat space-time and ADM canonical gravity. As was shown by Aharonov for RF - free material object its c.m. nonrelativistic motion in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Mayburov

Quantum vacuum fluctuations tend to be strongly anti-correlated, which reduces their observable effects. However, time dependence can upset the cancellation of these anti-correlated fluctuations and greatly enhance their effects. This form…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-12 Victor Parkinson , L. H. Ford

We investigate the statistical properties of translation invariant random fields (including point processes) on Euclidean spaces (or lattices) under constraints on their spectrum or structure function. An important class of models that…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-02-07 Kartick Adhikari , Subhroshekhar Ghosh , Joel L. Lebowitz

We present a brief historical introduction to the motivations behind quantum mechanics and quantum field theory on noncommutative spacetime and provide an insightful technique, readily accessible to the undergraduate student, to examine the…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Benjamin Johnson

The possibilities of curvature of space-time in the metric of quantum states are investigated. The curvature of the metric corresponding to a wave function of Hydrogen atom is determined. Also, Einstein tensor is described for a given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Aalok Pandya

As revealed by space-time probing, mechanics and field theory come out as complementary descriptions for motions in space-time. In particular, quantum fields exert a radiation pressure on scatterers which results in mechanical effects that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marc-Thierry Jaekel , Serge Reynaud

Spacetime foam can be modeled in terms of nonlocal effective interactions in a classical nonfluctuating background. Then, the density matrix for the low-energy fields evolves, in the weak-coupling approximation, according to a master…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 Luis J. Garay

A time dependent variational approach is used to derive the equations of motion for the \lambda \phi^4 model. The simultaneous evolution of the quantum fluctuations and of the classical part of the field is considered in a lattice of 1+1…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Fábio L. Braghin , Fernando S. Navarra

Light-front Hamiltonian methods are being developed to attack bound-state problems in QCD. In this paper we advance the state of the art for these methods by computing the well-known Lamb shift in hydrogen starting from first principles of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Billy D. Jones , Robert J. Perry

Electrons trapped on the surface of liquid helium is an extremely clean system which holds promise for a scalable qubit platform. However, the superfluid surface is not free from fluctuations which might cause the decay and dephasing of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-15 Mikhail Belianchikov , Natalia Morais , Denis Konstantinov