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Quantum field theories (QFT's) on noncommutative spacetimes are currently under intensive study. Usually such theories have world sheet noncommutativity. In the present work, instead, we study QFT's with commutative world sheet and…

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We consider an open quantum system which contains unstable states. The time evolution of the system can be described by an effective non-hermitian Hamiltonian H_{eff}, in accord with the Wigner--Weisskopf approximation, and an additional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-04 Reinhold A. Bertlmann , Walter Grimus , Beatrix C. Hiesmayr

We demonstrate that quantum fluctuations can cause, under certain conditions, the dynamical instability of pure states that can result in their evolution into mixed states. It is shown that the degree and type of such an instability are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-19 Konstantin G. Zloshchastiev

We study the localization properties of bipartite channels, whose action on a subsystem yields a unitary channel. In particular we show that, under such channel, the subsystem must evolve independent of its environment. This point of view…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-06 Matias Heikkilä

A small quantum system is studied which is a superposition of states localized in different positions in a static gravitational field. The time evolution of the correlation between different positions is investigated, and it is seen that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-11 Ahmad Shariati , Mohammad Khorrami , Farhang Loran

Two noninteracting atoms, initially entangled in Bell states, are coupled to a one-mode cavity. Based on the reduced non-perturbative quantum master equation, the entanglement evolution of the two atoms with decay is investigated beyond…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Qing Yang , Ming Yang , Da-Chuang Li , Zhuo-Liang Cao

For over a decade several workers have argued for the existence of quantum deviations from the classical, Einstein dilation of the decay evolution of moving or Lorentz boosted unstable particles. While the general claim is correct, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-12 Gordon N. Fleming

The decay of quasi-stable quantum system involves primarily an outgoing probability current density. However, during the transition from exponential to inverse-power-law decay there are time intervals during which this current, although…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-07 Wytse van Dijk , F. Masafumi Toyama

Each scheme of state reconstruction comes down to parametrize the state of a quantum system by expectation values or probabilities directly measurable in an experiment. It is argued that the time evolution of these quantities provides an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Stefan Weigert

The short-time behavior of quantum decay of an unstable state initially located within an interaction region of finite range is investigated using a resonant expansion of the survival amplitude. It is shown that in general the short-time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-15 Sergio Cordero , Gastón García-Calderón

We investigate the thermodynamical properties of quantum fields in curved spacetime. Our approach is to consider quantum fields in curved spacetime as a quantum system undergoing an out-of-equilibrium transformation. The non-equilibrium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-14 Nana Liu , John Goold , Ivette Fuentes , Vlatko Vedral , Kavan Modi , David Edward Bruschi

An analytical solution to the time evolution of decay of one and two identical noninteracting particles is presented using the formalism of resonant states. It is shown that the time-dependent wave function and hence the survival and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-20 Gastón García-Calderón

The framework to describe natural phenomena at their basics being quantum mechanics, there exist a large number of common global phenomena occurring in different branches of natural sciences. One such global phenomenon is spontaneous…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 N. G. Kelkar , M. Nowakowski , K. P. Khemchandani

We consider $d$-dimensional quantum systems which for positive times evolve with a time-independent Hamiltonian in a nonequilibrium state that we keep generic in order to account for arbitrary evolution at negative times. We show how the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-24 Gesualdo Delfino , Marianna Sorba

While exponential decay is ubiquitous in Nature, deviations at both short and long times are dictated by quantum mechanics. Non-exponential decay is known to arise due to the possibility of reconstructing the initial state from the decaying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-26 A. del Campo

A causal, non-Hermitian, renormalizable, local, unitary and Lorentz convariant formulation of Quantum Theory (QT) (= Quantum Mechanics (QM) and Quantum Field Theory (QFT)) is developed which is free of formalistic problems we face in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 F. Kleefeld

A soluble model for the relativistically description of an unstable system is given in terms of relativistic quantum field theory, with a structure similar to Van Hove's generalization of the Lee model in the non-relativistic theory.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 L. P. Horwitz

We study the short-time and medium-time behavior of the survival probability in the frame of the $N$-level Friedrichs model. The time evolution of an arbitrary unstable initial state is determined. We show that the survival probability may…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Antoniou , E. Karpov , G. Pronko , E. Yarevsky

We consider Deutsch's computational model of a quantum system evolving in a spacetime containing closed timelike curves. Although it is known that this model predicts non-linear and non-unitary evolutions of the system, we demonstrate that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-12 Richard DeJonghe , Kimberly Frey , Tom Imbo

We study the decay of a prepared state into non-flat continuum. We find that the survival probability $P(t)$ might exhibit either stretched-exponential or power-law decay, depending on non-universal features of the model. Still there is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 James Aisenberg , Itamar Sela , Tsampikos Kottos , Doron Cohen , Alex Elgart