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We argue that quantum-gravitational fluctuations in the space-time background give the vacuum non-trivial optical properties that include diffusion and consequent uncertainties in the arrival times of photons, causing stochastic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-11 John Ellis , N. E. Mavromatos , D. V. Nanopoulos

This paper presents a new, non-Gaussian formulation of stochastic gravity by incorporating the higher moments of the fluctuations of the quantum stress energy tensor for a free quantum scalar field in a consistent way. A scheme is developed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-17 Jason D. Bates

The so-called spectral dimension is a scale-dependent number associated with both geometries and field theories that has recently attracted much attention, driven largely though not exclusively by investigations of causal dynamical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-12-12 Thomas P. Sotiriou , Matt Visser , Silke Weinfurtner

Diffusive transport properties of a quantum Brownian particle moving in a tilted spatially periodic potential and strongly interacting with a thermostat are explored. Apart from the average stationary velocity, we foremost investigate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Machura , M. Kostur , P. Talkner , J. Luczka , P. Hänggi

This paper uses dynamical invariants to describe the evolution of collisionless systems subject to time-dependent gravitational forces without resorting to maximum-entropy probabilities. We show that collisionless relaxation can be viewed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-03 Jorge Peñarrubia

A brief presentation of the basic concepts in quantum probability theory is given in comparison to the classical one. The notion of quantum white noise, its explicit representation in Fock space, and necessary results of noncommutative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. P. Belavkin

Quantum diffusion, as developed in the 1990s, could explain how a system, subject to measurement, goes into an eigenstate of the measured observable. Here it is shown that quantum diffusion theory can be interpreted as a result within…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Karl-Erik Eriksson

The problem of finding the quantum theory of the gravitational field, and thus understanding what is quantum spacetime, is still open. One of the most active of the current approaches is loop quantum gravity. Loop quantum gravity is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-19 Carlo Rovelli

Information spreads in time. For example, correlations dissipate when the correlated system locally couples to a third party, such as the environment. This simple but important fact forms the known quantum data-processing inequality. Here…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-15 Kun Zhang , Jin Wang

We investigate the interplay between gravity and the quantum coherence present in the state of a pulse of light propagating in curved spacetime. We first introduce an operational way to distinguish between the overall shift in the pulse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 David Edward Bruschi , Symeon Chatzinotas , Frank K. Wilhelm , Andreas W. Schell

We here conjecture that two much-studied aspects of quantum gravity, dimensional flow and spacetime fuzziness, might be deeply connected. We illustrate the mechanism, providing first evidence in support of our conjecture, by working within…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-15 Giovanni Amelino-Camelia , Gianluca Calcagni , Michele Ronco

Continuous time random walks are non-Markovian stochastic processes, which are only partly characterized by single-time probability distributions. We derive a closed evolution equation for joint two-point probability density functions of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Baule , R. Friedrich

Inhomogeneous Nelson's diffusion in flat spacetime with a tensor of diffusion can be described as a homogeneous one in a Riemannian manifold with this tensor of diffusion as a metric tensor. The influence of matter to the energy density of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-10-09 Zahid Zakir

We present a way of understanding the curvature of space-time, the basic philosophy being that the (linear) geometry of any space is determined by the (linear) functionals on the algebra(s) of any fields defined on the space. It is known…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-09-15 E. Akofor

Planck-scale quantum spacetime undergoes probabilistic local curvature fluctuations whose distributions cannot explicitly depend on position otherwise vacuum's small-scale quantum structure would fail to be statistically homogeneous. Since…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-03-28 Christopher D. Burton

We show that the uncertainty in distance and time measurements found by the heuristic combination of quantum mechanics and general relativity is reproduced in a purely classical and flat multi-fractal spacetime whose geometry changes with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-09-22 Gianluca Calcagni , Michele Ronco

We propose that the underlying context of holographic duality and the Ryu-Takayanagi formula is that the volume measure of spacetime is a probability measure constrained by quantum dynamics. We define quantum stochastic processes using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-17 S. Josephine Suh

We analyse diffusion at low temperature by bringing the fluctuation-dissipation theorem (FDT) to bear on a physically natural, viscous response-function R(t). The resulting diffusion-law exhibits several distinct regimes of time and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-05-03 Urbashi Satpathi , Supurna Sinha , Rafael D. Sorkin

This paper concerns with the time-reversal characteristics of intrinsic normal diffusion in quantum systems. Time-reversible properties are quantified by the time-reversal test; the system evolved in the forward direction for a certain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 Hiroaki S. Yamada , Kensuke S. Ikeda

Nondifferentiable fluctuations in space-time on a Planck scale introduce stochastic terms into the equations for quantum states, resulting in a proposed new foundation for an existing alternative quantum theory, primary state diffusion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 I. C. Percival