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We study quantum percolation which is described by a tight-binding Hamiltonian containing only off-diagonal hopping terms that are generally in quenched binary disorder (zero or one). In such a system, transmission of a quantum particle is…

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Two related problems in relativistic quantum mechanics, the apparent superluminal propagation of initially localized particles and dependence of spatial localization on the motion of the observer, are analyzed in the context of Dirac's…

General Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Francis S. G. Von Zuben

The Hamiltonian constraint remains the major unsolved problem in Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG). Seven years ago a mathematically consistent candidate Hamiltonian constraint has been proposed but there are still several unsettled questions…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-18 Thomas Thiemann

We extend the application of the techniques developed within the framework of the pseudo-Hermitian quantum mechanics to study a unitary quantum system described by an imaginary PT-symmetric potential v(x) having a continuous real spectrum.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ali Mostafazadeh

In [1] we initiated an approach towards quantizing the Hamiltonian constraint in Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) by requiring that it generates an anomaly-free representation of constraint algebra off-shell. We investigated this issue in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-13 Adam Henderson , Alok Laddha , casey Tomlin

A rigorous implementation of the Wheeler-Dewitt equations was derived in the context of Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) and was coined Quantum Spin Dynamics (QSD). The Hamiltonian constraint of QSD was criticised as being too local and to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-09 Thomas Thiemann , Madhavan Varadarajan

The linearized Einstein field equations provide a low-energy wave equation for the propagation of gravitational fields which may originate from a high energy source. Motivated by loop quantum gravity, we propose the polymer quantization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-05 Angel Garcia-Chung , James B. Mertens , Saeed Rastgoo , Yaser Tavakoli , Paulo Vargas Moniz

In this article we examine a Hamiltonian constraint operator governing the dynamics of simple quantum states, whose graph consists of a single six-valent vertex, in quantum-reduced loop gravity. To this end, we first derive the action of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-01 Ilkka Mäkinen

The G -->0 limit of Euclidean gravity introduced by Smolin is described by a generally covariant U(1)xU(1)xU(1) gauge theory. The Poisson bracket algebra of its Hamiltonian and diffeomorphism constraints is isomorphic to that of gravity.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-30 Casey Tomlin , Madhavan Varadarajan

We study a non-local scalar quantum field theory in flat spacetime derived from the dynamics of a scalar field on a causal set. We show that this non-local QFT contains a continuum of massive modes in any dimension. In 2 dimensions the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-23 Alessio Belenchia , Dionigi M. T. Benincasa , Stefano Liberati

We address that a single-band tight-binding Hamiltonian defined on a self-similar corral substrate can give rise to a set of non-diffusive localized modes that follow the same hierarchical distribution. As the lattice, the spatial extent of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Sayan Bhattacharya , Rhiddha Acharjee , Atanu Nandy

A new symmetric Hamiltonian constraint operator is proposed for loop quantum gravity, which is well defined in the Hilbert space of diffeomorphism invariant states up to non-planar vertices with valence higher than three. It inherits the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-04 Jinsong Yang , Yongge Ma

We show how quantum discreteness of spatial area is consistent with a unitary implementation of Lorentz boosts in an LQG type quantization of a diffeomorphism invariant reformulation of free scalar field theory on 2d flat spacetime known as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-06 Madhavan Varadarajan

Loop quantum gravity methods are applied to a symmetry-reduced model with homogeneity in two dimensions, derived from a Gowdy model [5,6]. The conditions for propagation of unidirectional plane gravitational waves at exactly the speed of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-28 F. Hinterleitner

This paper examines the features of a generalized position-dependent mass Hamiltonian in a supersymmetric framework in which the constraints of pseudo-Hermiticity and CPT are naturally embedded. Different representations of the charge…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-27 B. Bagchi , A. Banerjee , A. Ganguly

In loop quantum gravity (LQG), states of the gravitational field are represented by labeled graphs called spin networks. Their dynamics can be described by a Hamiltonian constraint, { which acts on the spin network states modifying both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-27 Thiago L. M. Guedes , Guillermo A. Mena Marugán , Francesca Vidotto , Markus Müller

We consider the statistics of the results of a measurement of the spreading operator in the Krylov basis generated by the Hamiltonian of a quantum system starting from a specified initial pure state. We first obtain the probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-11 Yichao Fu , Keun-Young Kim , Kunal Pal , Kuntal Pal

Building on prior work, a generally covariant reformulation of free scalar field theory on the flat Lorentzian cylinder is quantized using Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) type `polymer' representations. This quantization of the {\em continuum}…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-30 Alok Laddha , Madhavan Varadarajan

We perform the Hamiltonian constraint analysis for a wide class of gravity theories that are invariant under spatial diffeomorphism. With very general setup, we show that different from the general relativity, the primary and secondary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-26 Xian Gao

We study a parameterized version of the local Hamiltonian problem, called the weighted local Hamiltonian problem, where the relevant quantum states are superpositions of computational basis states of Hamming weight $k$. The Hamming weight…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Michael J. Bremner , Zhengfeng Ji , Xingjian Li , Luke Mathieson , Mauro E. S. Morales