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We investigate the polarization fluctuations caused by quantum noise in quantum well vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs). Langevin equations are derived on the basis of a generalized rate equation model in which the influence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Holger F. Hofmann , Ortwin Hess

Newtonian noise in gravitational wave detectors originates from density fluctuations in the adjacency of the interferometer mirrors. At the Einstein Telescope, this noise source is expected to be dominant for low frequencies. Its impact is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-17 Patrick Schillings , Johannes Erdmann

The effect of noise induced by gravitons has been investigated using a Bose-Einstein condensate. The gravitational wave perturbation is then considerd as a sum of discrete Fourier modes in the momentum space. Coming to an operatorial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-17 Soham Sen , Sunandan Gangopadhyay

One aspect of the quantum nature of spacetime is its "foaminess" at very small scales. Many models for spacetime foam are defined by the accumulation power $\alpha$, which parameterizes the rate at which Planck-scale spatial uncertainties…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Eric S. Perlman , Saul A. Rappaport , Wayne A. Christensen , Y. Jack Ng , John DeVore , David Pooley

We discuss a limit for sensitivity of length measurements which is due to the effect of vacuum fluctuations of gravitational field. This limit is associated with irreducible quantum fluctuations of geodesic distances and it is characterized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Marc-Thierry Jaekel , Serge Reynaud

We consider the effects of a noisy magnetic field background over the fermion propagator in QED, as an approximation to the spatial inhomogeneities and time-fluctuations that would naturally arise in certain physical scenarios, such as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-24 Jorge David Castaño-Yepes , Marcelo Loewe , Enrique Muñoz , Juan Cristóbal Rojas

This is a course on noise which covers some of the scattering theory for normal metals, Hanbury Brown and Twiss analogs for noise correlations with electrons, noise correlations in superconducting/normal metal junctions. Entanglement in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thierry Martin

In ultracold gases many experiments use atom imaging as a basic observable. The resulting image is averaged over a number of realizations and mostly only this average is used. Only recently the noise has been measured to extract physical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 G. E. Astrakharchik , R. Combescot , L. P. Pitaevskii

Quantum fluctuations of the vacuum stress-energy tensor are highly non-Gaussian, and can have unexpectedly large effects on spacetime geometry. In this paper, we study a two-dimensional dilaton gravity model coupled to a conformal field, in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-18 S. Carlip , Ricardo A. Mosna , J. P. M. Pitelli

We investigate a problem of the necessary and sufficient conditions for appearance of the 1/f fluctuations in the simple systems affected by the external random perturbations, i.e. the power spectral density of the flux of particles moving…

adap-org · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Kaulakys , T. Meskauskas

Varied sensory systems use noise in order to enhance detection of weak signals. It has been conjectured in the literature that this effect, known as stochastic resonance, may take place in central cognitive processes such as the memory…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Julien Mayor , Wulfram Gerstner

Quantum noise is conventionally viewed as a fundamental obstacle in near-term quantum computing, motivating extensive error correction and mitigation strategies. We present numerical evidence that challenges this consensus. Through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Linghua Zhu , Yulong Dong , Ziyu Zhang , Xiaosong Li

We propose a new source for the cosmological density perturbation which is passive fluctuations of the inflaton driven dynamically by a colored quantum noise as a result of its coupling to other massive quantum fields. The created…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 Chun-Hsien Wu , Kin-Wang Ng , Wolung Lee , Da-Shin Lee , Yeo-Yie Charng

Radiation from a chaotic cavity filled with gain medium is considered. A set of coupled equations describing the photon density and the population of gain medium is proposed and solved. The spectral distribution and fluctuations of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. G. Mishchenko

We present a theory for describing the evolution of a galaxy caused by stochastic events such as weak mergers, transient spiral structure, orbiting blobs, etc. This noise excites large-scale patterns that drives the evolution of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Martin D. Weinberg

The influence of multiple vibrational modes on current fluctuations in electron transport through single-molecule junctions is investigated. Our analysis is based on a generic model of a molecular junction, which comprises a single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-26 C. Schinabeck , R. Härtle , H. B. Weber , M. Thoss

The existence and characterisation of noise-driven bifurcations from the spatially homogeneous stationary states of a nonlinear, non-local Fokker--Planck type partial differential equation describing stochastic neural fields is established.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-04-26 José A. Carrillo , Pierre Roux , Susanne Solem

We generalize the oscillator model of a particle interacting with a thermal reservoir by introducing arbitrary nonlinear couplings in the particle coordinates.The equilibrium positions of the heat bath oscillators are promoted to space-time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 F. Illuminati , M. Patriarca , P. Sodano

We consider the scenario of a fluctuating spacetime due to a deformed commutation relation with a fluctuating deformation parameter, or to a fluctuating metric tensor. By computing the resulting dynamics and averaging over these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Sandro Donadi , Matteo Fadel

A gravity-driven mechanism (``objective reduction'') proposed to explain quantum state reduction is analyzed in light of the possible existence of large extra dimensions in the ADD scenario. By calculating order-of-magnitude estimates for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. R. Mureika