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Here, cosmology is obtained from the variable gravitational constant $ G \propto \phi^{-2}$ with $ \phi(x) $ being a scalar and its fluctuations around the ground state. The gravitational action contains Einstein-Hilbert like term with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-09-19 S. K. Srivastava

Fluctuations of the qubit frequencies are one of the major problems to overcome on the way to scalable quantum computers. Of particular importance are fluctuations with the correlation time that exceeds the decoherence time due to decay and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Filip Wudarski , Yaxing Zhang , Alexander Korotkov , A. G. Petukhov , M. I. Dykman

We analyze the weak-field limit of General Relativity with matter and its possible quantisations. This analysis aims towards a predictive quantum theory to provide a first-principles description of gravitational effects in macroscopic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-11 Charis Anastopoulos , Mihalis Lagouvardos , Konstantina Savvidou

Inspired by an ontic view of the wavefunction in quantum mechanics and motivated by the universal interaction of gravity, we discuss a possible gravity implication in the state collapse mechanism. Concretely, we investigate the stability of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-08 A. Belhaj , S. E. Ennadifi

Semiclassical gravity couples classical gravity to the quantized matter in meanfield approximation. The meanfield coupling is problematic for two reasons. First, it ignores the quantum fluctuation of matter distribution. Second, it violates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-28 Lajos Diósi

In spite of the growing observational evidence for dark matter and dark energy in the universe, their physical nature is largely unknown. In fact, several authors have proposed modifications of Newton's law of gravity at cosmological scales…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Akihito Shirata , Tetsuya Shiromizu , Naoki Yoshida , Yasushi Suto

The Gravitational Poissonian Spontaneous Localization (GPSL) model is a hybrid classical-quantum framework in which Newtonian gravity emerges from stochastic collapses of a smeared mass-density operator. Consistency of the hybrid dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Nicolò Piccione

We present a general phenomenological model for superconducting qubits subject to noise produced by two-state fluctuators whose couplings to the qubit are all roughly the same. In flux qubit experiments where the working point can be…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-11 Dong Zhou , Robert Joynt

When a massive quantum body is put into a spatial superposition, it is of interest to consider the quantum aspects of the gravitational field sourced by the body. We argue that in order to understand how the body may become entangled with…

The fluctuation relation of the Gallavotti-Cohen Fluctuation Theorem (GCFT) concerns fluctuations in the phase space compression rate of dissipative, reversible dynamical systems. It has been proven for Anosov systems, but it is expected to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Denis J. Evans , Debra J. Searles , Lamberto Rondoni

We study the quantum corrections to the Gross-Pitaevskii equation for two weakly linked Bose-Einstein condensates. The goals are: 1) to investigate dynamical regimes at the borderline between the classical and quantum behaviour of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Augusto Smerzi , Srikanth Raghavan

Recent spectacular results of gravitational waves obtained by the LIGO system, with frequencies in the 100 Hz regime, make corresponding laboratory experiments with full control over cause and effect of great importance. Dynamic…

Quantum integrable models display a rich variety of non-thermal excited states with unusual properties. The most common way to probe them is by performing a quantum quench, i.e., by letting a many-body initial state unitarily evolve with an…

We write equations of motion for density variables that are equivalent to Newtons equations. We then propose a set of trial equations parameterised by two unknown functions to describe the exact equations. These are chosen to best fit the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Zaccarelli , G. Foffi , P. De Gregorio , F. Sciortino , P. Tartaglia , K. A. Dawson

We study fluctuations of the metric in the postquantum theory of classical gravity, a covariant theory which couples a classical spacetime with quantum matter fields. Mathematical consistency requires spacetime to evolve stochastically.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-08 Jonathan Oppenheim , Muhammad Sajjad

An attractive and simple hypothesis for the formation of large-scale structure is that it developed by gravitational instability from primordial fluctuations with an initially Gaussian probability distribution. Non-linear gravitational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ewa Luiza Lokas , Roman Juszkiewicz , David Weinberg , Francois Bouchet

A small quantum system within the gravitational field of a massive body will be entangled with the quantum degrees of freedom of the latter. Hence, the massive body acts as an environment, and it induces non-unitary dynamics, noise, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-10 Dimitris Moustos , Charis Anastopoulos

We examine the quantum gravitational entanglement of two test masses in the context of linearized General Relativity with specific non-local interaction with matter. To accomplish this, we consider an energy-momentum tensor describing two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-19 Ulrich K. Beckering Vinckers , Álvaro de la Cruz-Dombriz , Anupam Mazumdar

Gravity's quantum nature can be probed in a laboratory by witnessing the entanglement between the two quantum systems, which cannot be possible if gravity is a classical entity. In this paper, we will provide a simple example where we can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-26 Shafaq Gulzar Elahi , Anupam Mazumdar

A classic feature of gravity is that it is an attractive force. If a source mass is prepared in a localized (classical- like) state, it will cause another probe mass to move towards it. Here we consider the situation in which a source mass…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Sougato Bose , Lev Vaidman