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The quantum formalism is a ``measurement'' formalism--a phenomenological formalism describing certain macroscopic regularities. We argue that it can be regarded, and best be understood, as arising from Bohmian mechanics, which is what…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Detlef Dürr , Sheldon Goldstein , Nino Zanghí

In this review we discuss intriguing properties of apparently classical optical fields, that go beyond purely classical context and allow us to speak about quantum characteristics of such fields and about their applications in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Natalia Korolkova , Gerd Leuchs

The purpose of this review is to provide a brief overview of some recent conceptual developments about possible criteria to guarantee the uniqueness of the quantization in a variety of situations that are found in cosmological systems.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-18 Jerónimo Cortez , Guillermo A. Mena Marugán , José M. Velhinho

The path integral formalism gives a very illustrative and intuitive understanding of quantum mechanics but due to its difficult sum over phases one usually prefers Schr\"odinger's approach. We will show that it is possible to calculate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Dullweber , E. R. Hilf , E. Mendel

Much of the foundational work on quantum cosmology employs a simple minisuperspace model describing a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe containing a massive scalar field. We show that the classical limit of this model exhibits…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Neil Cornish , Paul Shellard

Running couplings can be understood as arising from the spontaneous breaking of an exact scale invariance in appropriate effective theories with no dilatation anomaly. Any ordinary quantum field theory, even if it has massive fields, can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Carlos Tamarit

The in-in path integral of a scalar field propagating in a fixed background is formulated in a suitable function space. The free kinetic operator, whose inverse gives the propagators of the in-in perturbation theory, becomes essentially…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-21 Ali Kaya

While there does not at this time exist a complete canonical theory of full 3+1 quantum gravity, there does appear to be a satisfactory canonical quantization of minisuperspace models. The method requires no `choice of time variable' and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-09 Donald Marolf

Quantum gravity is expected to be necessary in order to understand situations where classical general relativity breaks down. In particular in cosmology one has to deal with initial singularities, i.e. the fact that the backward evolution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-19 Martin Bojowald

Cosmological correlators encode statistical properties of the initial conditions of our universe. Mathematically, they can often be written as Mellin integrals of a certain rational function associated to graphs, namely the flat space…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-05-27 Claudia Fevola , Guilherme L. Pimentel , Anna-Laura Sattelberger , Tom Westerdijk

The formalism developed in Refs.~\cite{Guo:2023ecc,Guo:2024zal,Guo:2024pvt} that relates the integrated correlation functions for a trapped system to the infinite volume scattering phase shifts through a weighted integral is further…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-07-04 Peng Guo , Frank X. Lee

Some typical quantization ambiguities of quantum geometry are studied within isotropic models. Since this allows explicit computations of operators and their spectra, one can investigate the effects of ambiguities in a quantitative manner.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-30 Martin Bojowald

This paper describes perturbative framework, on the basis of closed-time-path formalism, for studying quasiuniform relativistic quantum field systems near equilibrium and nonequilibrium quasistationary systems. At the first part, starting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Niégawa

Deviations from classical physics when distant quantum systems become correlated are interesting both fundamentally and operationally. There exist situations where the correlations enable collaborative tasks that are impossible within the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 Farid Shahandeh , Austin P. Lund , Timothy C. Ralph

Isotropic models in loop quantum cosmology allow explicit calculations, thanks largely to a completely known volume spectrum, which is exploited in order to write down the evolution equation in a discrete internal time. Because of genuinely…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Martin Bojowald

A fully consistent linear perturbation theory for cosmology is derived in the presence of quantum corrections as they are suggested by properties of inverse volume operators in loop quantum gravity. The underlying constraints present a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Bojowald , Golam Mortuza Hossain , Mikhail Kagan , S. Shankaranarayanan

Measurements on a single quantum system at different times reveal rich non-classical correlations similar to those observed in spatially separated multi-partite systems. Here we introduce a theory framework that unifies the description of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Fabio Costa , Martin Ringbauer , Michael E. Goggin , Andrew G. White , Alessandro Fedrizzi

Some symmetries can be broken in the quantization process (anomalies) and this breaking is signalled by a non-invariance of the quantum path integral measure. In this talk we show that it is possible to formulate also classical field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Mauro

In ordinary, non-relativistic, quantum physics, time enters only as a parameter and not as an observable: a state of a physical system is specified at a given time and then evolved according to the prescribed dynamics. While the state can,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-13 Joseph Fitzsimons , Jonathan Jones , Vlatko Vedral

We consider quantum formalism limited by the classical simulating computer with the fixed memory. The memory is redistributed in the course of modeling by the variation of the set of classical states and the accuracy of the representation…

General Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Yu. I. Ozhigov