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Randomized measurements are useful for analyzing quantum systems especially when quantum control is not fully perfect. However, their practical realization typically requires multiple rotations in the complex space due to the adoption of…

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A common knowledge suggests that trajectories of particles in quantum mechanics always have quantum uncertainties. These quantum uncertainties set by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle limit precision of measurements of fields and forces,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-11 Eugene S. Polzik , Klemens Hammerer

Typically discussed in the context of optics, caustics are envelopes of classical trajectories (rays) where the density of states diverges, resulting in pronounced observable features such as bright points, curves, and extended networks of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-06-12 Maren E. Mossman , Thomas M. Bersano , Michael McNeil Forbes , Peter Engels

The electromagnetic field is typically measured by the charged particle motion observation. Generally in the experiments, position, velocity and other physical parameters concerning relativistic particle beams, are estimated evaluating the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-06-19 Giuseppina Modestino

As an alternative to state-of-the-art laser frequency stabilisation using ultra-stable cavities, it has been proposed to exploit the non-linear effects from coupling of atoms with a narrow transition to an optical cavity. Here we have…

Optical clocks based on atoms and ions probe relativistic effects with unprecedented sensitivity by resolving time dilation due to atom motion or different positions in the gravitational potential through frequency shifts. However, all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-22 Gabriel Sorci , Joshua Foo , Dietrich Leibfried , Christian Sanner , Igor Pikovski

Technologies for manipulating single atoms have advanced drastically in the past decades. Due to their excellent controllability of internal states, atoms serve as one of the ideal platforms as quantum systems. One major research direction…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Akio Kawasaki

The phase space of a relativistic system can be identified with the future tube of complexified Minkowski space. As well as a complex structure and a symplectic structure, the future tube, seen as an eight-dimensional real manifold, is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Dorje C. Brody , Lane P. Hughston

A vacuum medium model is advanced. The motion of a relativistic particle in relation to its interaction with the medium is discussed. It is predicted that elementary excitations of the vacuum, called "inertons," should exist. The equations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Volodymyr Krasnoholovets

We introduce observables associated with the space-time position of a quantum point defined by the intersection of two light pulses. The time observable is canonically conjugated to the energy. Conformal symmetry of massless quantum fields…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Marc-Thierry Jaekel , Serge Reynaud

We consider two-level detectors, coupled to a quantum scalar field, moving inside cavities. We highlight some pathological resonant effects due to abrupt boundaries, and decide to describe the cavity by switching smoothly the interaction by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Nathaniel Obadia

The sustained intense experimental activity around atomic spectroscopy and the resulting high-precision measurements of atomic spectral lines attract interest in Lamb shift as a witness for noninertial effects in quantum systems. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-31 Navdeep Arya , Sandeep K. Goyal

We propose an experimental realization of discrete quantum random walks using neutral atoms trapped in optical lattices. The random walk is taking place in position space and experimental implementation with present day technology --even…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 W. Dür , R. Raussendorf , V. M. Kendon , H. -J. Briegel

For a particle moving in a one-dimensional space an under a periodic external force, its quantization is study using the Hamiltonian (generalized linear momentum quantization) and constant of motion (velocity quantization) approaches. it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gustavo Lopez

We directly measure the quantized collective motion of a gas of thousands of ultracold atoms, coupled to light in a high-finesse optical cavity. We detect strong asymmetries, as high as 3:1, in the intensity of light scattered into low- and…

Fermi co-ordinates are proper co-ordinates of a local observer determined by his trajectory in space-time. Two observers at different positions belong to different Fermi frames even if there is no relative motion between them. Use of Fermi…

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Local symmetries of the action for a relativistic particle with curvature and torsion of its world curve in the (2+1)-dimensional space-time are studied. With the help of the method, worked out recently by the authors (Phys.Rev., D56, 1135,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. A. Gogilidze , Yu. S. Surovtsev

The relative motion of a classical relativistic spinning test particle is studied with respect to a nearby free test particle in the gravitational field of a rotating source. The effects of the spin-curvature coupling force are elucidated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 C. Chicone , B. Mashhoon , B. Punsly

We analyze the possibility of detecting, with optical methods, particle and photon trajectories predicted by general relativity for a weak spherically-symmetric gravitational field. We discuss the required sensitivities and the possibility…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 B. Preziosi , G. M. Tino

We consider the quantum dynamics of a free nonrelativistic particle moving in a cavity and we analyze the effect of a rapid switching between two different boundary conditions. We show that this procedure induces, in the limit of infinitely…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-02-15 Paolo Facchi , Giancarlo Garnero , Marilena Ligabò