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The quantum null energy condition (QNEC) is a conjectured bound on components $(T_{kk} = T_{ab} k^a k^b$) of the stress tensor along a null vector $k^a$ at a point $p$ in terms of a second $k$-derivative of the von Neumann entropy $S$ on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-29 Zicao Fu , Jason Koeller , Donald Marolf

In our study, we explored the properties of a spatially homogeneous and anisotropic Bianchi type V I0 Universe. Our investigation centered on integrating cosmic domain walls into the f(R, T) theory of gravitation, initially proposed by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-05 V. R. Patil , J. L. Pawde , R. V. Mapari , S. K. Waghmare

We show analytically that the vacuum electromagnetic stress-energy tensor outside a ball with constant dielectric constant and permeability always obeys the weak, null, dominant, and strong energy conditions. There are still no known…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Noah Graham , Ken D. Olum , Delia Schwartz-Perlov

States supported by chaotic open quantum systems fall into two categories: a majority showing instantaneous ballistic decay, and a set of quantum resonances of classically vanishing support in phase space. We present a theory describing…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-12 T. Micklitz , A. Altland

We investigate the quantum null energy condition (QNEC) in holographic CFTs, focusing on half-spaces and particular classes of states. We present direct, and in certain cases nonperturbative, calculations for both the diagonal and off-…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-09-26 Zuhair U. Khandker , Sandipan Kundu , Daliang Li

In general relativity, the energy conditions are invoked to restrict general energy-momentum tensors $T_{\mu\nu}$ in different frameworks, and to derive general results that hold in a variety of general contexts on physical grounds. We show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Santos , J. S. Alcaniz , N. Pires , M. J. Reboucas

Recently, a non-linear model of viscoelasticity based on Rational Extended Thermodynamics was proposed in [arXiv:2312.05116]. This theory extends the evolution of the viscous stress beyond the linear framework of the Maxwell model to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 Andrea Giusti , Andrea Mentrelli , Tommaso Ruggeri

A general semiclassical approach to quantum systems with system-bath interactions is developed. We study system decoherence in detail using a coherent state semiclassical wavepacket method which avoids singularity issues arising in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gregory A. Fiete , Eric J. Heller

Hawking's singularity theorem concerns matter obeying the strong energy condition (SEC), which means that all observers experience a non-negative effective energy density (EED). The SEC ensures the timelike convergence property. However,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-02 P. J. Brown , C. J. Fewster , E. -A. Kontou

We use a semiclassical approach to study out of equilibrium dynamics and transport in quantum systems with massive quasiparticle excitations having internal quantum numbers. In the universal limit of low energy quasiparticles, the system is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-20 Márton Kormos , Catalin Pascu Moca , Gergely Zaránd

We study the backreaction of free quantum fields on a flat Robertson-Walker spacetime. Apart from renormalization freedom, the vacuum energy receives contributions from both the trace anomaly and the thermal nature of the quantum state. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-29 Claudio Dappiaggi , Thomas-Paul Hack , Jan Möller , Nicola Pinamonti

We present a semiclassical study of the spectrum of a few-body system consisting of two short-range interacting bosonic particles in one dimension, a particular case of a general class of integrable many-body systems where the energy…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-08-10 Benjamin Geiger , Juan-Diego Urbina , Quirin Hummel , Klaus Richter

In isotropic loop quantum cosmology, non-perturbatively modified dynamics of a minimally coupled scalar field violates weak, strong and dominant energy conditions when they are stated in terms of equation of state parameter. The violation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-05 Golam Mortuza Hossain

We introduce non-adiabatic semiclassical dressed states for a quantum system interacting with an electromagnetic field of variable amplitude and phase, and presence of dumping. We also introduce a generalized adiabatic condition, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. G. Koprinkov

The notion of semi-classical states is first sharpened by clarifying two issues that appear to have been overlooked in the literature. Systems with linear and quadratic constraints are then considered and the group averaging procedure is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Abhay Ashtekar , Luca Bombelli , Alejandro Corichi

The expected stress-energy tensor <T_{ab}> of quantum fields generically violates the local positive energy conditions of general relativity. However, <T_{ab}> may satisfy some nonlocal conditions such as the averaged null energy condition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Eanna Flanagan , Robert Wald

A formalism for quantum many-body systems is proposed through a semiclassical treatment in phase space, allowing us to establish a stochastic thermodynamics incorporating quantum statistics. Specifically, we utilize a stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-23 Zhaoyu Fei

Simulating the molecular dynamics (MD) using classical or semi-classical trajectories provides important details for the understanding of many chemical reactions, protein folding, drug design, and solvation effects. MD simulations using…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-11-16 Siyang Yang

We review various semiclassical models for strong-field physics. These semiclassical models employ ensembles of classical trajectories to simulate electron motion in the continuum after being released from an atom or molecule by an external…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Nikolay Shvetsov-Shilovski

In this paper, we are concerned with semiclassical states to the following fractional nonlinear elliptic equation, \begin{align*} \eps^{2s}(-\Delta)^s u + V(x) u=\mathcal{N}(|u|)u \quad \mbox{in} \,\,\, \R^N, \end{align*} where $0<s <1$,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-17 Shaowei Chen , Tianxiang Gou