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Non-commutative quantum physics at the atom scale can arise from coarse graining of a classical statistical ensemble at the Planck scale. Position and momentum of an isolated particle are classical observables which remain computable in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-24 C. Wetterich

The transition from the quantum to the classical world is not yet understood. Here we take a new approach. Central to this is the understanding that measurement and actualization cannot occur except in some specific basis. But we have no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Stuart Kauffman , Sudip Patra

The origin of cosmic structure is widely regarded as quantum, yet the Universe today appears classical. Standard lore attributes this to a "quantum-to-classical" transition on super-horizon scales during inflation. Gravity plays a central…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-03 Aurora Ireland

Quantum mechanics for a four-state-system is derived from classical statistics. Entanglement, interference, the difference between identical fermions or bosons and the unitary time evolution find an interpretation within a classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-06 C. Wetterich

In classical spin systems with two largely different inherent time scales, the configuration of the fast spins almost instantaneously follows the slow-spin dynamics. We develop the emergent effective theory for the slow-spin degrees of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-19 Michael Elbracht , Simon Michel , Michael Potthoff

This article traces a brief history of the use of single electron spins to compute. In classical computing schemes, a binary bit is represented by the spin polarization of a single electron confined in a quantum dot. If a weak magnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-01 S. Bandyopadhyay

In this paper for the first time, we construct quantum analogs starting from classical stochastic processes, by replacing random which path decisions with superpositions of all paths. This procedure typically leads to non-unitary quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-13 Gustavo Montes , Soham Biswas , Thomas Gorin

Classical limits of quantum systems are shown to lead to different conceptions of spaces different from the classical one underlying the process of quantization of such systems. The accent is put in situations where traces of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-22 Thierry Paul

We show that classical states can emerge as pure ground state solutions of a quantum many-body system. We use a simple Hubbard model in 1D with strong short-range interactions and a second nearest neighbor hopping with N particles arranged…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-12-21 Ioannis Kleftogiannis , Ilias Amanatidis

Classical chaos is marked by an extreme sensitivity to initial conditions, where infinitesimally close trajectories separate exponentially over time. In quantum mechanics, however, unitary evolution and the uncertainty principle preclude…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Sanchit Srivastava , Shohini Ghose

Although cosmic expansion at very small distances is usually dismissed as entirely inconsequential, these extraordinarily small effects may in fact have a real and significant influence on our world. A calculation suggests that the minute…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. L. Herzenberg

This paper examines whether unitary evolution alone is sufficient to explain emergence of the classical world from the perspective of computability theory. Specifically, it looks at the problem of how the choice related to the measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-27 Subhash Kak

Recently, what appears to be a fundamental limit associated with the size of an object that separates the quantum behavior characterizing small objects from the classical behavior characterizing large objects has been derived from the…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 C. L. Herzenberg

't Hooft has recently developed a discretisation of (2+1) gravity which has a multiple-valued Hamiltonian and which therefore admits quantum time evolution only in discrete steps. In this paper, we describe several models in the continuum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 A. P. Balachandran , L. Chandar

The classical dynamics of particles with (non-)abelian charges and spin moving on curved manifolds is established in the Poisson-Hamilton framework. Equations of motion are derived for the minimal quadratic Hamiltonian and some extensions…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-04-15 Jan W. van Holten

A single mechanism, endemic to the standard model of physics, is proposed to explain wavefunction collapse, classical motion, dissipation, equilibration, and the transition from pure quantum mechanics through open system decoherence to the…

General Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 J. H. Brownell

The generation of non-classical states of large quantum systems has attracted much interest from a foundational perspective, but also because of the significant potential of such states in emerging quantum technologies. In this paper we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 Shane Dooley , Jaewoo Joo , Timothy Proctor , Timothy Spiller

While ultimately they are described by quantum mechanics, macroscopic mechanical systems are nevertheless observed to follow the trajectories predicted by classical mechanics. Hence, in the regime defining macroscopic physics, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Tanmoy Bhattacharya , Salman Habib , Kurt Jacobs

Among the most iconic features of classical dissipative dynamics are persistent limit-cycle oscillations and critical slowing down at the onset of such oscillations, where the system relaxes purely algebraically in time. On the other hand,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Shovan Dutta , Shu Zhang , Masudul Haque

We present a complete review of the quantum-to-classical limit of open systems by means of the theory of decoherence and the use of the Weyl-Wigner-Moyal (WWM) transformation. We show that the analytical extension of the Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-10 Guido Bellomo , Mario Castagnino , Sebastian Fortin