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A commonly adopted relational account of time evolution in generally-covariant systems, and more specifically in quantum cosmology, is argued to be unsatisfactory, insofar as it describes evolution relative to observed readings of a clock…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-10 Ian D. Lawrie

In this paper I discuss the concept of time in physics. I consider the thermal time hypothesis and I claim that thermal clocks and atomic clocks measure different physical times, whereby thermal time and relativistic time are not compatible…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-24 Claudio Borghi

This paper puts forward a broad critical analysis of the concept of physical time. Clock effect is conceived as a consequence of the variation of the gravitational or pseudo gravitational potential, and it is remarked that only some real…

General Physics · Physics 2018-09-05 Claudio Borghi

Continuous clocks, i.e. the clocks that measure time in a continuous manner, are regarded as an essential component of sensing technology. Precision and recurrence time are two basic features of continuous clocks. In this paper, in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-02 Mehdi Ramezani , Morteza Nikaeen , Alireza Bahrampour

The clock synchronization problem is to determine the time difference $\Delta$ between two spatially separated clocks. When message delivery times between the two clocks are uncertain, $O(2^{2n})$ classical messages must be exchanged…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Isaac Chuang

We propose a generic mechanism for the emergence of a gravitational potential that acts on all classical objects in a quantum system. Our conjecture is based on the analysis of mutual information in many-body quantum systems. Since…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Dries Sels , Michiel Wouters

We explore the consequences of requiring that quantum theories of gravity be unitary, mostly focusing on simple cosmological models to illustrate the main points. We show that unitarity for a clock that encounters a classical singularity at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-30 Steffen Gielen , Lucía Menéndez-Pidal

A new interpretation of quantum mechanics, similar to the Copenhagen interpretation, is developed from time-symmetry arguments and commonly held principles concerning time and causality. These principles, which are grounded in ideas outside…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 William R. Wharton

I consider quantum protocols for clock synchronization, and investigate in particular whether entanglement distillation or quantum error-correcting codes can improve the robustness of these protocols. I also draw attention to some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John Preskill

Equations of motion for single particle under two proper time model and three proper time model have been proposed and analyzed. The motions of particle are derived from pure classical method but they exhibit the same properties of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 xiaodong Chen

Space-time intervals corresponding to different events on the worldline of any ponderable object (for example a clock) are time-like. In consequence, in the analysis of any space-time experiment involving clocks only the region for $c\Delta…

General Physics · Physics 2016-10-27 J. H. Field

Clocks in different heights or with different velocities run with different speeds. For global positioning systems these effects are much too large to be ignored. Nevertheless, in classical and quantum mechanics we get high accuracy using a…

General Physics · Physics 2018-11-01 Manfried Faber

It is shown that Quantum Mechanics is ambiguous when predicting relative frequencies for an entangled system if the measurements of both subsystems are performed in spatially separated events. This ambiguity gives way to unphysical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-27 Carlos Lopez

Quantum technologies present new opportunities for fundamental tests of nature. One potential application is to probe the interplay between quantum physics and general relativity - a field of physics with no empirical evidence yet. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Johannes Borregaard , Igor Pikovski

A rigorous quantum relativistic approach has been used to calculate the relationship between the decay laws of an unstable particle seen from two inertial frames moving with respect to each other. In agreement with experiment, it is found…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Eugene V. Stefanovich

Without addressing the measurement problem (i.e. what causes the wave function to ``collapse'', or to ``branch'', or a history to become realized, or a property to actualize), I discuss the problem of the timing of the quantum measurement:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlo Rovelli

Quantum non-local correlations and the acausal, spooky action at a distance suggest a discord between quantum theory and special relativity. We propose a resolution for this discord by first observing that there is a problem of time in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Shreya Banerjee , Sayantani Bera , T. P. Singh

We propose a quantum clock synchronization protocol in which Bob makes a remote measurement on Alice's quantum clock via a third qubit acting as its proxy. It is shown that the resulting correlations are dependent on the choice of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Srikanth

Ordinary quantum mechanics is formulated on the basis of the existence of an ideal classical clock external to the system under study. This is clearly an idealization. As emphasized originally by Salecker and Wigner and more recently by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Rodolfo Gambini , Rafael Porto , Jorge Pullin

Models of spontaneous wavefunction collapse explain the quantum-to-classical transition without invoking the von Neumann measurement postulate. Prominent frameworks, such as the Di\'osi-Penrose (DP) and Continuous Spontaneous Localization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Nicola Bortolotti , Catalina Curceanu , Lajos Diósi , Simone Manti , Kristian Piscicchia