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Cosmological perturbations are generally described by quantum fields on (curved but) classical space-times. While this strategy has a large domain of validity, it can not be justified in the quantum gravity era where curvature and matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Ivan Agullo , Abhay Ashtekar , William Nelson

In the correspondence between spectral problems and topological strings, it is natural to consider complex values for the string theory moduli. In the spectral theory side, this corresponds to non-Hermitian quantum curves with complex…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Yoan Emery , Marcos Marino , Massimiliano Ronzani

We study the superpotentials, quantum parameter space and phase transitions that arise in the study of large N dualities between $\mathcal{N}=1$ SUSY U(N) gauge theories and string models on local Calabi-Yau manifolds. The main tool of our…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-04-09 Gabriel Álvarez , Luis Martínez Alonso , Elena Medina

The computational cost of quantum algorithms for physics and chemistry is closely linked to the spectrum of the Hamiltonian, a property that manifests in the necessary rescaling of its eigenvalues. The typical approach of using the 1-norm…

Quantizing the mirror curve to a toric Calabi-Yau threefold gives rise to quantum operators whose fermionic spectral traces produce factorially divergent formal power series in the Planck constant and its inverse. These are conjecturally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-11 Veronica Fantini , Claudia Rella

In this paper it is shown how to obtain the simplest equations for the Mukhanov-Sasaki variables describing quantum linear scalar perturbations in the case of scalar fields without potential term. This was done through the implementation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-21 F. T. Falciano , N. Pinto-Neto

We investigate quantum corrections to the classical four-dimensional low-energy effective action of type II string theory compactified on SU(3) structure geometries. Various methods previously developed for Calabi-Yau compactifications are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Mariana Grana , Jan Louis , Ulrich Theis , Daniel Waldram

Motivated by applications for non-perturbative topological strings in toric Calabi--Yau manifolds, we discuss the spectral problem for a pair of commuting modular conjugate (in the sense of Faddeev) Harper type operators, corresponding to a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Rinat M. Kashaev , Sergey M. Sergeev

We compute the corrections to heterotic-string backgrounds with (2,0) world-sheet supersymmetry, up to two loops in sigma-model perturbation theory. We investigate the conditions for these backgrounds to preserve spacetime supersymmetry and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Gillard , G. Papadopoulos , D. Tsimpis

In this paper we show how quantum corrections, although perturbatively small, may play an important role in the analysis of the existence of some classical models. This, in fact, appears to be the case of static, uniform--density models of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Manuela Campanelli , Carlos O. Lousto

We compute the spectral distribution of the quantum fluctuations of the vacuum, amplified by inflation, after an arbitrary number of background transitions. Using a graphic representation of the process we find that the final spectrum can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 G. De Risi , M. Gasperini

We establish a connection between quantum mechanics and computation, revealing fundamental limitations for algorithms computing spectra, especially in non-Hermitian settings. Introducing the concept of locally trivial pseudospectra (LTP),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Catherine Drysdale , Matthew Colbrook , Michael T. M. Woodley

Quantum computing holds the promise of solving computational mechanics problems in polylogarithmic time, meaning computational time scales as $\mathscr{O}((\log N)^c)$, where $N$ is the problem size and $c$ a constant. We propose a quantum…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Eky Febrianto , Yiren Wang , Burigede Liu , Michael Ortiz , Fehmi Cirak

We discuss some of the classical and quantum geometry associated to the degeneration of cycles within a Calabi-Yau compactification. In particular, we focus on the definition and properties of quantum volume, especially as it applies to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Brian R. Greene , Yakov Kanter

We develop a self-consistent approach to study the spectral properties of a class of quantum mechanical operators by using the knowledge about monodromies of $2\times 2$ linear systems (Riemann-Hilbert correspondence). Our technique applies…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Mikhail Bershtein , Pavlo Gavrylenko , Alba Grassi

We study topological strings on non-commutative resolutions of singular Calabi-Yau threefolds that are double covers of $\mathbb{P}^3$, ramified over determinantal octic surfaces. Using conifold transitions to complete intersections in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-04 Sheldon Katz , Thorsten Schimannek

Recently, a novel bootstrap method for numerical calculations in matrix models and quantum mechanical systems is proposed. We apply the method to certain quantum mechanical systems derived from some well-known local toric Calabi-Yau…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-08 Bao-ning Du , Min-xin Huang , Pei-xuan Zeng

Consider quantum harmonic oscillator, perturbed by an even almost-periodic complex-valued potential with bounded derivative and primitive. Suppose that we know the first correction to the spectral asymptotics $\{\Delta\mu_n\}_{n=0}^\infty$…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Alexis Pokrovski

The supersymmetric particle spectrum is calculated in type I string theories formulated as orientifold compactifications of type IIB string theory. A string scale at an intermediate value of $10^{11}-10^{12}$ GeV is assumed and extra…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 D. Bailin , G. V. Kraniotis , A. Love

We describe a quantum limit to measurement of classical spacetimes. Specifically, we formulate a quantum Cramer-Rao lower bound for estimating the single parameter in any one-parameter family of spacetime metrics. We employ the locally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 T. G. Downes , J. R. van Meter , E. Knill , G. J. Milburn , C. M. Caves