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Inspired by various quantum gravity approaches, we explore quantum field theory where spacetime exhibits scaling properties and dimensional reduction with changing energy scales, effectively behaving as a multifractal manifold. Working…

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Observing physical effects of large quantum stress tensor fluctuations requires knowledge of the interactions between the probe and the particles of the underlying quantum fields. The quantum stress tensor operators must first be averaged…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-21 Peter Wu , L. H. Ford , Enrico D. Schiappacasse

We consider stochastic non-linear diffusion equations with a highly singular diffusivity term and multiplicative gradient-type noise. We study existence and uniqueness of non-negative variational solutions in terms of stochastic variational…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-06-21 Michael Rockner , Ionut Munteanu

We outline a field theory on a multifractal spacetime. The measure in the action is characterized by a varying Hausdorff dimension and logarithmic oscillations governed by a fundamental physical length. A fine hierarchy of length scales…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-29 Gianluca Calcagni

We consider a class of time-homogeneous diffusion processes on $\mathbb{R}^{n}$ with common invariant measure but varying volatility matrices. In Euclidean space, we show via stochastic control of the diffusion coefficient that the…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Bertram Tschiderer

Generative models for quantum data pose significant challenges but hold immense potential in fields such as chemoinformatics and quantum physics. Quantum denoising diffusion probabilistic models (QuDDPMs) enable efficient learning of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Quoc Hoan Tran , Koki Chinzei , Yasuhiro Endo , Hirotaka Oshima

We investigate how quantum coherence can be distributed among the several off-diagonal elements of an arbitrary density matrix. An easily computable quantity that captures this variability notion is proposed and it is argued that it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Fernando Parisio

We remark that the often ignored quantum probability current is fundamental for a genuine understanding of scattering phenomena and, in particular, for the statistics of the time and position of the first exit of a quantum particle from a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 M. Daumer , D. Duerr , S. Goldstein , N. Zanghi

We numerically analyse quantum survival probability fluctuations in an open, classically chaotic system. In a quasi-classical regime, and in the presence of classical mixed phase space, such fluctuations are believed to exhibit a fractal…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Giuliano Benenti , Giulio Casati , Italo Guarneri , Marcello Terraneo

In this paper continuous time random walk models approximating fractional space-time diffusion processes are studied. Stochastic processes associated with the considered equations represent time-changed processes, where the time-change…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-09-16 Sabir Umarov

Quantum theory (QT) provides statistical predictions for various physical phenomena. The outcomes of these measurements are in general some numerical time series registered by some macroscopic instruments. The various empirical probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Marian Kupczynski

We continue our investigation of an improved quantization scheme for spherically symmetric loop quantum gravity. We find that in the region where the black hole singularity appears in the classical theory, the quantum theory contains…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-16 Rodolfo Gambini , Javier Olmedo , Jorge Pullin

The conditions for observation of the particle coordinates, required by logic of the Special Relativity and filtering the quantum field effects, are described. A general relation between the corresponding density of probability and the wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-03 V. F. Krotov

It is univocally anticipated that in a theory of quantum gravity, there exist quantum superpositions of semiclassical states of spacetime geometry. Such states could arise for example, from a source mass in a superposition of spatial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-20 Joshua Foo , Robert B. Mann , Magdalena Zych

Traditional approaches to the study of the dynamics of spacetime curvature in a very real sense hide the intricacies of the nonlinear regime. Whether it be huge formulae, or mountains of numerical data, standard methods of presentation make…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Kayll Lake

This paper compares the proposal made in previous papers for a quantum probability distribution of the time of arrival at a certain point with the corresponding proposal based on the probability current density. Quantitative differences…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Delgado

Contrary to what is often stated, a fundamental spacetime discreteness need not contradict Lorentz invariance. A causal set's discreteness is in fact locally Lorentz invariant, and we recall the reasons why. For illustration, we introduce a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Fay Dowker , Joe Henson , Rafael D. Sorkin

A quantum kinetic equation is obtained for an inhomogeneous solid having arbitrary gradient concentration and chemical potential. We find, starting from nonequilibrium statistical operator, a new equation to describe atom migration in solid…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-31 Y. Bilotsky , M. Gasik , B. Lev

The semiclassical gravity describes gravitational back-reactions of the classical spacetime interacting with quantum matter fields but the quantum effects on the background is formally defined as higher derivative curvatures. These induce…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-06 Hiroki Matsui , Naoki Watamura

Quantum dynamics on curved spacetime has never been directly probed beyond the Newtonian limit. Although we can describe such dynamics theoretically, experiments would provide empirical evidence that quantum theory holds even in this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Jacob P. Covey , Igor Pikovski , Johannes Borregaard