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There is a formal analogy between the evolution of the universe, when this is seen as a trajectory in the minisuperspace, and the worldline followed by a test particle in a curved spacetime. The analogy can be extended to the quantum realm,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-12-31 Salvador J. Robles-Pérez

We assume that particles are point-like objects even when not observed. We report on the consequences of our assumption within the realm of quantum theory. An important consequence is the necessity of vacuum fields to account for particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-27 Eduardo V. Flores

If our universe has appeared in a result of Big Bang or something like this, whether we have reasons to deny an existence of other universes appearing by the same or similar way? An objection that there is no anything like it, is doubtful,…

General Physics · Physics 2012-11-07 Andrei Novikov-Borodin

The causal interpretation of quantum mechanics is applied to a homogeneous and isotropic quantum universe, whose matter content is composed by non interacting dust and radiation. For wave functions which are eigenstates of the total dust…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 N. Pinto-Neto , E. Sergio Santini , F. T. Falciano

The degree-of-presence (of the quantum system) concept, accompanying that of the wavefunction-reality postulate, is introduced and studied in two ways. To begin with, an incomplete exposition of the present author's views is given.…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2013-07-04 Fedor Herbut

The theory of the inflationary multiverse changes the way we think about our place in the world. According to its most popular version, our world may consist of infinitely many exponentially large parts, exhibiting different sets of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-19 Andrei Linde

We analyze a quantized toy model of a universe undergoing eternal inflation using a quantum-field-theoretical formulation of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. This so-called third quantization method leads to the picture that the eternally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-22 João Morais , Mariam Bouhmadi-López , Manuel Kraemer , Salvador Robles-Pérez

Causal Dynamical Triangulations in four dimensions provide a background-independent definition of the sum over space-time geometries in nonperturbative quantum gravity. We show that the macroscopic four-dimensional world which emerges in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Ambjorn , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll

This study was started to know mysterious classicality of nuclei. Using three particles model without external environments, it is found that decisions of respective state of three particles by decoherence are not simultaneous. Furthermore,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Takuji Ishikawa

Many-Worlds quantum mechanics differs from standard quantum mechanics in that in Many-Worlds, the wave function is a relative density of universes in the multiverse amplitude rather than a probability amplitude. This means that in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-24 Frank J. Tipler

The only evidence we have for a discrete reality comes from quantum measurements; without invoking these measurements, quantum theory describes continuous entities. This seeming contradiction can be resolved via analysis that treats…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-08 Ken Wharton

We consider a spacetime formed by several pieces having common timelike boundary which plays the role of a junction between them. We establish junction conditions for fields of various spin and derive the resulting laws of wave propagation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 P. I. Fomin , Yu. V. Shtanov

We reformulate quantum tunneling in a multi-dimensional system where the tunneling sector is non-linearly coupled to oscillators. The WKB wave function is explicitly constructed under the assumption that the system was in the ground state…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-08-09 Kazuyuki Sugimura

We propose an improved variant of the third-quantization scheme, for the spatially homogeneous and isotropic cosmological models in Einstein gravity coupled with a neutral massless scalar field. Our strategy is to specify a semi-Riemannian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Daisuke Ida , Miyuki Saito

Quantum theory of the free Maxwell field in Minkowski space is constructed using a representation in which the self dual connection is diagonal. Quantum states are now holomorphic functionals of self dual connections and a decomposition of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 Abhay Ashtekar , Carlo Rovelli , Lee Smolin

It is widely believed, and axiomatically postulated in mathematical quantum field theory, that the vacuum is a unique vector state. The recent solution of the quantum Yang-Mills theory of the strong interaction revealed the presence of two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-03 Dimitrios Metaxas

Here I explore a novel no-collapse interpretation of quantum mechanics which combines aspects of two familiar and well-developed alternatives, Bohmian mechanics and the many-worlds interpretation. Despite reproducing the empirical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-03 Charles Sebens

After introducing the Vogel plane we give the quantisation. Then we extend the Vogel plane to include certain symmetric spaces and give the quantisation of this extension.

Representation Theory · Mathematics 2015-10-29 Bruce W. Westbury

The uncertainty of a quantum state is given by the composition of two components. The first is called the quantum component and is given by the probability distribution of an observable relative to the state. The second is the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Stan Gudder

At present, there are two possible, and equally plausible, explanations for the physics of quantum measurement. The first explanation, known as the many-worlds interpretation, does not require any modification of quantum mechanics, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-24 T. P. Singh