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Stochastic optimal control problems with constraints on the probability distribution of the final output are considered. Necessary conditions for optimality in the form of a coupled system of partial differential equations involving a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-03-10 Samuel Daudin

A brief review of the modern state of quantum cosmology is presented as a theory of quantum initial conditions for inflationary scenario. The no-boundary and tunneling states of the Universe are discussed as a possible source of probability…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 A. O. Barvinsky

A version of scattering theory that was developed many years ago to treat nuclear scattering processes, has provided a powerful tool to study universality in scattering processes involving open quantum systems with underlying classically…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2022-10-12 L. E. Reichl , G. Akguc

A stochastic theory is presented for a quantum vortex that is expected to occur in superfluids coated on two dimensional sphere $ {\rm S}^2 $. The starting point is the canonical equation of motion (the Kirchhoff equation) for a point…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Hiroshi Kuratsuji

The production of orbitally entangled electrons in quantum-chaotic dots is investigated from a statistical point of view. The degree of entanglement is quantified through the concurrence and the entanglement of formation. We calculate the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-16 Victor A. Gopar , Diego Frustaglia

We compute second-order quantum corrections, as quantum dispersions and correlations, to a cosmological model coupling a single scalar perturbation mode to a bouncing background within Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC). Using an effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Héctor Hernández Hernández , Hugo Morales Técotl , Gustavo Sánchez Herrera

The correspondence principle states that the quantum system will approach to the classical system in high quantum numbers. Indeed, the average of the probability density distribution reflects a classical-like distribution. However, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-05 Ciann-Dong Yang , Shiang-Yi Han

We investigate the previously unexplored quantum dynamics of non-relativistic, spinless particles propagating in curved spaces with torsion. Our findings demonstrate that while torsion has been predominantly associated with spin, it can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-19 Tomoi Koide , Armin van de Venn

This thesis investigates cosmological particle production within Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetimes, both as a dark matter mechanism and through analog simulations using Bose-Einstein condensates. While a full theory of Quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Álvaro Parra-López

The spontaneous loss of angular momentum of a spinning cosmic string due to particle emission is discussed. The rate of particle production between two assymptotic spacetimes: the spinning cosmic string spacetime in the infinite past and a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 V. A. De Lorenci , R. De Paola , N. F. Svaiter

We present a framework, which, from the trajectories detailing the spatiotemporal dynamics of a population, simultaneously reconstructs a transport map as well as the Fokker-Planck equation governing the coarse-grained probability…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Saem Han , Krishna Garikipati

We derive a relativistically covariant (although not manifestly so) equation for the distribution function of particles accelerated at shocks, which applies also to extremely relativistic shocks, and arbitrarily anisotropic particle…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mario Vietri

A subjective survey of stochastic models of quantum mechanics is given along with a discussion of some key radiative processes, the clues they offer, and the difficulties they pose for this program. An electromagnetic basis for deriving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Mark P. Davidson

This study aims to address the nature of state change, measurement, and probabilistic outcomes in non-relativistic quantum mechanics. We consider a pair of particles that interact in a one-dimensional setting via a delta-function potential.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Olivia Pomerenk , Charles S. Peskin

We consider a stochastic $N$-particle system on a torus in which each particle moving freely can instantaneously thermalize according to the particle configuration at that instant. Following [2], we show that the propagation of chaos does…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-12-22 Paolo Buttà , Mario Pulvirenti

Several techniques of generating random quantum channels, which act on the set of $d$-dimensional quantum states, are investigated. We present three approaches to the problem of sampling of quantum channels and show under which conditions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 Ryszard Kukulski , Ion Nechita , Łukasz Pawela , Zbigniew Puchała , Karol Życzkowski

In massless scalar field cosmology, imposing the universe's physical volume as fundamentally discrete resolves the big bang singularity via a big bounce. We use quantum field theory on curved background to numerically track the number of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-16 Mustafa Saeed , Irfan Javed , Aiman Nauman

Fokker-Planck equations are extensively employed in various scientific fields as they characterise the behaviour of stochastic systems at the level of probability density functions. Although broadly used, they allow for analytical treatment…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Dimitra Maoutsa , Sebastian Reich , Manfred Opper

We present a classical probability model appropriate to the description of quantum randomness. This tool, that we have called stochastic gauge system, constitutes a contextual scheme in which the Kolmogorov probability space depends upon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-01 Michel Feldmann

We construct a relativistically covariant stochastic model for systems of non-interacting spinless particles whose number undergoes random fluctuations. The model is compared with the canonical quantization of the free scalar field in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 L. M. Morato , L. Viola