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We consider a graph with a single quantum system at each node. The entire compound system evolves in discrete time steps by iterating a global evolution $U$. We require that this global evolution $U$ be unitary, in accordance with quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-29 Pablo Arrighi , Vincent Nesme , Reinhard Werner

A particular family of time- and space-dependent discrete-time quantum walks (QWs) is considered in one dimensional physical space. The continuous limit of these walks is defined through a new procedure and computed in full detail. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-25 Di Molfetta Giuseppe , Fabrice Debbasch , Marc E Brachet

We analyse the discrete-time dynamics of a model of non-interacting fermions coupled to an infinite reservoir formed by a bosonic quantum walk on ${\mathbb Z}$. This dynamics consists of consecutive applications of free evolutions of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Olivier Bourget , Alain Joye , Dominique Spehner

It is shown how a Doubly-Special Relativity model can emerge from a quantum cellular automaton description of the evolution of countably many interacting quantum systems. We consider a one-dimensional automaton that spawns the Dirac…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-21 A. Bibeau-Delisle , A. Bisio , G. M. D'Ariano , P. Perinotti , A. Tosini

One of approaches to quantum gravity is different models of a discrete pregeometry. An example of a discrete pregeometry on a microscopic scale is introduced. This is the particular case of a causal set. The causal set is a locally finite…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-01 Alexey L. Krugly

We show that the discrete-time evolution of an open quantum system generated by a single quantum channel $T$ can be embedded in the discrete-time evolution of an enlarged closed quantum system, i.e. we construct a unitary dilation of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-08-17 Frederik vom Ende , Gunther Dirr

We construct the causal fermion system for globally hyperbolic spacetimes starting in the framework of algebraic quantum field theory. The fermionic projector is identified with the one-particle density operator of a quasi-free Hadamard…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Patrick Fischer , Felix Finster

This paper presents an brief review of some recent work on the causal set approach to quantum gravity. Causal sets are a discretisation of spacetime that allow the symmetries of GR to be preserved in the continuum approximation. One…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-31 Joe Henson

We study the time evolution of quenched random-mass Dirac fermions in one dimension by quantum lattice Boltzmann simulations. For nonzero noise strength, the diffusion of an initial wave packet stops after a finite time interval,…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-04-05 Christian B. Mendl , Silvia Palpacelli , Alex Kamenev , Sauro Succi

There is increased interest in time-dependent (non-autonomous) Hamiltonians, stemming in part from the active field of Floquet quantum materials. Despite this, dispersive time-decay bounds, which reflect energy transport in such systems,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-04-02 Joseph Kraisler , Amir Sagiv , Michael I. Weinstein

In a number of model contexts, evolution across space-time singularities (reminiscent of the cosmological singularities) involves time-dependent quantum Hamiltonians developing a singularity as a function of time. In this contribution to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-01-30 Oleg Evnin

Dirac particle dynamics is encoded as a unitary path summation rule and implemented on a qubit array, where the qubit array represents both spacetime and the fermions contained therein. The unitary path summation rule gives a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-15 Jeffrey Yepez

We consider finite-range, many-body fermionic lattice models and we study the evolution of their thermal equilibrium state after introducing a weak and slowly varying time-dependent perturbation. Under suitable assumptions on the external…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Rafael L. Greenblatt , Markus Lange , Giovanna Marcelli , Marcello Porta

We compare the structures and methods in the theory of causal fermion systems with approaches to fundamental physics based on division algebras, in particular the octonions. We find that octonions and, more generally, tensor products of…

We study a formal extension of the Dirac equation in the framework of a non-commutative two-sheeted space-time. It is shown that this approach naturally extends the classical Dirac theory by doubling the number of fermionic states, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Fabrice Petit , Michael Sarrazin

We show that space-time evolution of one-dimensional fermionic systems is described by nonlinear equations of soliton theory. We identify a space-time dependence of a matrix element of fermionic systems related to the {\it Orthogonality…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Eldad Bettelheim , Alexander G. Abanov , Paul Wiegmann

Relativistic spin-1/2 particles in curved spacetime are naturally described by Dirac theory, which is a dynamical and Lorentz-invariant field theory. In this work, we propose a non-dynamical fermion theory in 3+1 dimensions dubbed spinor…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Giandomenico Palumbo

We propose a formulation of a Lorentzian quantum geometry based on the framework of causal fermion systems. After giving the general definition of causal fermion systems, we deduce space-time as a topological space with an underlying causal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-01-28 Felix Finster , Andreas Grotz

A Quantum Cellular Automaton (QCA) is essentially an operator driving the evolution of particles on a lattice, through local unitaries. Because $\Delta_t=\Delta_x = \epsilon$, QCAs constitute a privileged framework to cast the digital…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Dogukan Bakircioglu , Pablo Arnault , Pablo Arrighi

The model is a particular case of causal set. This is a discrete model of spacetime in a microscopic level. In paper the most general properties of the model are investigated without any reference to a dynamics. The dynamics of the model is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-01 Alexey L. Krugly