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An effective formalism for quantum constrained systems is presented which allows manageable derivations of solutions and observables, including a treatment of physical reality conditions without requiring full knowledge of the physical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-03-12 Martin Bojowald , Barbara Sandhoefer , Aureliano Skirzewski , Artur Tsobanjan

We discuss the quantisation of a class of string cosmology models that are characterized by scale factor duality invariance. We compute the amplitudes for the full set of classically allowed and forbidden transitions by applying the reduce…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Marco Cavaglia , Carlo Ungarelli

Cosmological correlators are very important objects in cosmology as they offer us a huge amount of information of the early universe. They reside on the future boundary of a de Sitter space and can be calculated by two methods. First method…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-13 Nirmalya Brahma

The characterization of quantum correlations is crucial to the development of new quantum technologies and to understand how dramatically quantum theory departs from classical physics. Here we systematically study single- and multiparticle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-05 Rejane Alves de Brito , Bertúlio de Lima Bernardo

Space-time is one of the most essential, yet most mysterious concepts in physics. In quantum mechanics it is common to understand time as a marker of instances of evolution and define states around all the space but at one time; while in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-01 Tian Zhang , Oscar Dahlsten , Vlatko Vedral

We study certain aspects of the effective, occasionally called collective, description of complex quantum systems within the framework of the path integral formalism, in which the environment is integrated out. Generalising the standard…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Eckern , M. J. Gruber , P. Schwab

In this work we consider basic principles and problems of the standard quantum mechanical formalism. Especially we consider final measurement or detection procedure (collapse) as a quantum-classical continuous phase transition with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Vladan Pankovic

A new quantum ontology of quantum mechanics has been proposed recently. This ontology is based on impossible to realize measurements which need to be performed repeatedly on the same single physical system or on the same pair of physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-11 Marian Kupczynski

Advancements in physics are often motivated/accompanied by advancements in our precision measurements abilities. The current generation of atomic and optical interferometers is limited by shot noise, a fundamental limit when estimating a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Luca Pezze' , Augusto Smerzi

We discuss various definitions of decoherence and how it can be measured. We compare and contrast decoherence in quantum systems with an infinite number of eigenstates (such as the free particle and the oscillator) and spin systems. In the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. F. O'Connell

The quantum mechanical formalism doesn't support our intuition, nor does it elucidate the key concepts that govern the behaviour of the entities that are subject to the laws of quantum physics. The arrays of complex numbers are kin to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Bob Coecke

We consider the temporal correlations of the quantum state of a qubit subject to simultaneous continuous measurement of two non-commuting qubit observables. Such qubit state correlators are defined for an ensemble of qubit trajectories,…

The manifestation of entanglement within geometric phase is elucidated for spatially-structured bi-photons. Entanglement parameters are shown to influence holonomy in two distinct ways: through statistical superpositions of separable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-21 Mark T. Lusk

We study the path-integral formalism in the imaginary-time to show its validity in a case with a metastable ground state. The well-known method based on the bounce solution leads to the imaginary part of the energy even for a state that is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 Hideaki Aoyama , Toshiyuki Harano , Hisashi Kikuchi , Masatoshi Sato , Shinya Wada

In this paper, we study several issues in the linear equation-of-motion (EoM) and in-in approaches of computing the two-point correlation functions in multi-field inflation. We prove the equivalence between this EoM approach and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Xingang Chen , Mohammad Hossein Namjoo , Yi Wang

The definition of quantum singularity is extended from static space-times to conformally static space-times. After the usual definitions of classical and quantum singularities are reviewed, examples of quantum singularities in static…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-12-26 D. A. Konkowski , T. M. Helliwell

A complete model of the universe needs at least three parts: (1) a complete set of physical variables and dynamical laws for them, (2) the correct solution of the dynamical laws, and (3) the connection with conscious experience. In quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Don N. Page

In loop quantum cosmology, non-perturbative quantum gravity effects lead to the resolution of the big bang singularity by a quantum bounce without introducing any new degrees of freedom. Though fundamentally discrete, the theory admits a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Gonzalo J. Olmo , Parampreet Singh

Within the framework of loop quantum cosmology, there exists a semi-classical regime where spacetime may be approximated in terms of a continuous manifold, but where the standard Friedmann equations of classical Einstein gravity receive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 James E. Lidsey

The traditional formalism of non-relativistic quantum theory allows the state of a quantum system to extend across space, but only restricts it to a single instant in time, leading to distinction between theoretical treatments of spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-21 Zhikuan Zhao , Robert Pisarczyk , Jayne Thompson , Mile Gu , Vlatko Vedral , Joseph F. Fitzsimons