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Scalar, vector and tensor harmonics on the three-sphere were introduced originally to facilitate the study of various problems in gravitational physics. These harmonics are defined as eigenfunctions of the covariant Laplace operator which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-01 Lee Lindblom , Nicholas W. Taylor , Fan Zhang

We propose a new strategy to probe non-tensorial polarizations in the stochastic gravitational-wave (GW) background. Averaging over polarization angles, we find that three-point correlations of the GW signal vanish for tensor and vector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-11 N. M. Jiménez Cruz , Flavio C. Sánchez , Gianmassimo Tasinato

Six exact solutions are obtained in the general scalar-tensor theory of gravity related to spatially homogeneous wave-like models of the Universe. Wave-like space-time models allow the existence of privileged coordinate systems where the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-06 K. Osetrin , A. Filippov , E. Osetrin

We characterize the angular polyspectra, of arbitrary order, associated with isotropic fields defined on the sphere S^2. Our techniques rely heavily on group representation theory, and specifically on the properties of Wigner matrices and…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-04-30 Domenico Marinucci , Giovanni Peccati

The scalar tensor theory contains a coupling function connecting the quantities in the Jordan and Einstein frames, which is constrained to guarantee a transformation rule between frames. We simulate the supernovae core collapse with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-28 Chao-Qiang Geng , Hao-Jui Kuan , Ling-Wei Luo

An $\hbar$-expansion is presented for the ensemble-averaged spectral function of noninteracting matter waves in random potentials. We obtain the leading quantum corrections to the deep classical limit at high energies by the Wigner-Weyl…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-01 Martin-Isbjörn Trappe , Dominique Delande , Cord A. Müller

For a spinless quantum particle in a one-dimensional box or an electromagnetic wave in a one-dimensional cavity, the respective Dirichlet and Neumann boundary conditions both lead to non-degenerate wave functions. However, in two spatial…

The axion monodromy model involves a canonical scalar field that is governed by a linear potential with superimposed modulations. The modulations in the potential are responsible for a resonant behavior which gives rise to persisting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 Debika Chowdhury , V. Sreenath , L. Sriramkumar

The analytic forms of deuteron wave function in coordinate space were applied for theoretical calculations of full set asymmetries of tensor $t_{2j}$ and vector $t_{1i}$ polarizations. Nucleon-nucleon realistic phenomenological potentials…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-07-24 V. I. Zhaba

Many practical sampling patterns for function approximation on the rotation group utilizes regular samples on the parameter axes. In this paper, we relate the mutual coherence analysis for sensing matrices that correspond to a class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-10 Arya Bangun , Arash Behboodi , Rudolf Mathar

Using linear invariant operators in a constructive way we find the most general thermal density operator and Wigner function for time-dependent generalized oscillators. The general Wigner function has five free parameters and describes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sang Pyo Kim , Don N. Page

We study the tomography of multispin quantum states in the context of finite-dimensional Wigner representations. An arbitrary operator can be completely characterized and visualized using multiple shapes assembled from linear combinations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-16 David Leiner , Robert Zeier , Steffen J. Glaser

The Dunkl total angular momentum algebra (TAMA) is realised as the dual partner of the orthosymplectic Lie superalgebra containing the Dunkl deformation of the Dirac operator. In this paper, we consider the case when the reflection group…

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2026-05-13 Marcelo De Martino , Alexis Langlois-Rémillard , Roy Oste

A generalized vector particle theory with the use of an extended set of Lorentz group irredicible representations, including scalar, two 4-vectors, and antisymmetric 2-rang tensor, is investigated. Initial equations depend upon four complex…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Kisel , N. G. Tokarevskaya , A. A. Bogush , V. M. Red'kov

New time dependent Wigner functions for the quantum harmonic oscillator have been obtained in this work. The Moyal equation for the harmonic oscillator has been presented as the wave equation of a 2D membrane in the phase plane. The values…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-27 E. E. Perepelkin , B. I. Sadovnikov , N. G. Inozemtseva , E. V. Burlakov

The coherence properties of the classical waves are discussed in terms of the Cauchy problem for the wave equation, and of a discrete representation by an ensemble of Hamiltonian systems. Wave quanta are related to specific "action fields",…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 M. Grigorescu

We specify the semiclassical no-boundary wave function of the universe without relying on a functional integral of any kind. The wave function is given as a sum of specific saddle points of the dynamical theory that satisfy conditions of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-27 Jonathan J. Halliwell , James B. Hartle , Thomas Hertog

A new non-perturbative approach to quantum theory in curved spacetime and to quantum gravity, based on a generalisation of the Wigner equation, is proposed. Our definition for a Wigner equation differs from what have otherwise been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Frank Antonsen

Classical surfaces in phase space correspond to quantum states in Hilbert space. Subsystems specify factor spaces of the Hilbert space. An entangled state corresponds semiclassically to a surface that cannot be decomposed into a product of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Ozorio de Almeida

We present a construction of the Wigner function for a bosonic quantum field theory that has well-defined ultraviolet (UV) and infrared (IR) properties. Our construction uses the local mode formalism in algebraic quantum field theory that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-01 Erickson Tjoa