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Quantum inequalities are bounds on negative time-averages of the energy density of a quantum field. They can be used to rule out exotic spacetimes in general relativity. We study quantum inequalities for a scalar field with a background…

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When gravitation is combined with quantum theory, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle could be extended to the generalized uncertainty principle accompanying a minimal length. To see how the generalized uncertainty principle works in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-05 Yongwan Gim , Hwajin Um , Wontae Kim

Usual quantum mechanics requires a fixed, background, spacetime geometry and its associated causal structure. A generalization of the usual theory may therefore be needed at the Planck scale for quantum theories of gravity in which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-05 James B. Hartle

Various models of quantum gravity imply the Planck-scale modifications of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle into a so-called generalized uncertainty principle (GUP). The GUP effects on high-energy physics, cosmology, and astrophysics have…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-18 Dongfeng Gao , Jin Wang , Mingsheng Zhan

The uncertainty relation is a distinctive characteristic of quantum theory. The uncertainty is essentially rooted in quantum states. In this work we regard the uncertainty as an intrinsic property of quantum state and characterize it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-31 Ming-Jing Zhao , Yuanhong Tao

Uncertainty relation is a fundamental issue in quantum mechanics and quantum information theory. By using modified generalized variance (MGV), and modified generalized Wigner-Yanase-Dyson skew information (MGWYD), we identify the total and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-16 Cong Xu , Zhaoqi Wu , Shao-Ming Fei

Almost all theories of Quantum Gravity predict modifications of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle near the Planck scale to a so-called Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP). Recently it was shown that the GUP gives rise to corrections…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-30 Saurya Das , R. B. Mann

Quantum Mechanics (QM) is one of the pillars of modern physics: an impressive amount of experiments have confirmed this theory and many technological applications are based on it. Nevertheless, at one century since its development, various…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Marco Genovese

A generalized uncertainty principle is obtained from a conformally transformed action containing a scalar field and a unique constraint. The constraint's Lagrange multiplier is found to obey a relativistic diffusion equation transforming…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-24 Dor Gabay

One of the leading issues in quantum field theory and cosmology is the mismatch between the observed and calculated values for the cosmological constant in Einstein's field equations of up to 120 orders of magnitude. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-21 Michael Bishop , Peter Martin , Douglas Singleton

We study generalized uncertainty principle through the basic concepts of limit and Fourier transformation and analyze both the quantum theory of gravity and string theory from the perspective of complex function theory. Motivated from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-22 Bhupendra Nath Tiwari

The aim of this paper is to derive a new uncertainty principle for the generalized $q$-Bessel wavelet transform studied earlier in \cite{Rezguietal}. In this paper, an uncertainty principle associated with wavelet transforms in the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 Sabrine Arfaoui , Maryam G Alshehri , Anouar Ben Mabrouk

This study uncovers novel vulnerabilities within Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) protocols that extend beyond traditional implementation flaws, such as loopholes. These newly identified vulnerabilities arise from the complex interaction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Jose R. Rosas-Bustos , Jesse Van Griensven Thé , Roydon Andrew Fraser

Different candidates of Quantum Gravity such as String Theory, Doubly Special Relativity, Loop Quantum Gravity and black hole physics all predict the existence of a minimum observable length or a maximum observable momentum which modifies…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-30 Pouria Pedram

The finite square potential well is a staple problem in introductory quantum mechanics. There is an extensive literature on the determination of the allowed energies, which requires the solution of a transcendental equation by numerical,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Nivaldo A. Lemos

A large class of quantum theories of gravity show that the Heisenberg's uncertainty principle is modified to the "Generalised Uncertainty Principle" (GUP) near the Planckian scale. It has also been shown that the GUP induces perturbative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-12 Ashmita Das , Saurya Das , Elias C. Vagenas

We exactly solve the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for the closed homogeneous and isotropic quantum cosmology in the presence of a conformally coupled scalar field and in the context of the generalized uncertainty principle. This form of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-12 Pouria Pedram

Quantum gravity (or quantum spacetime) is to unify general relativity and quantum mechanics into a single theoretical framework and presented as the most important open puzzle in fundamental physics. The development of a microscopic theory…

General Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Su-Peng Kou

In quantum mechanics, the variance-based Heisenberg-type uncertainty relations are a series of mathematical inequalities posing the fundamental limits on the achievable accuracy of the state preparations. In contrast, we construct and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Yao Yao , Xing Xiao , Xiaoguang Wang , C. P. Sun

General relativity successfully describes space-times at scales that we can observe and probe today, but it cannot be complete as a consequence of singularity theorems. For a long time there have been indications that quantum gravity will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Bojowald
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