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A free massless scalar field is coupled to homogeneous and isotropic loop quantum cosmology. The coupled model is investigated in the vicinity of the classical singularity, where discreteness is essential and where the quantum model is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Martin Bojowald , Franz Hinterleitner

The mean field approximation is numerically validated in the bosonic case by considering the time evolution of quantum states and their associated reduced density matrices by many-body Schr\"odinger dynamics. The model phase-space is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-08-04 Boris Pawilowski

This note analyses on the long wavelength dynamics of a two horizon analogue black hole system in one spatial dimension. By introducing an effective scalar-dilaton model we show that closed form expressions can be obtained for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-03 Ian G. Moss

The problem of finding a vacuum definition for a single quantum field in curved space-times is discussed under a new geometrical perspective. The phase space dynamics of the quantum field modes are mapped to curves in a 2-dimensional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-12 Mariana Penna-Lima , Nelson Pinto-Neto , Sandro D. P. Vitenti

This contribution is a review of the method of isomonodromic quantization of dimensionally reduced gravity. Our approach is based on the complete separation of variables in the isomonodromic sector of the model and the related ``two-time"…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 D. Korotkin , H. Nicolai , H. Samtleben

We present a detailed description of a quantum scalar field theory within a flat spacetime confined to a cavity with perfectly reflecting moving boundaries. Moreover, we establish an equivalence between this time-dependent setting and a…

A simple quantum mechanical model of $N$ free scalar fields interacting with a dynamical moving mirror is formulated and shown to be equivalent to two-dimensional dilaton gravity. We derive the semi-classical dynamics of this system, by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 Tze-Dan Chung , Herman Verlinde

In this work, we propose the quantum Hall system as a platform for exploring black hole phenomena. By exhibiting deep rooted commonalities between lowest Landau level and spacetime symmetries, we show that features of both quantum Hall and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Suraj S. Hegde , Varsha Subramanyan , Barry Bradlyn , Smitha Vishveshwara

Over the last few years numerous papers concerning analog models for gravity have been published. It was shown that the dynamical equation of several systems (e.g. Bose-Einstein condensates with a sink or a vortex) have the same wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Silke E. Ch. Weinfurtner

All the classes of static massless scalar field models available currently in the Einstein theory of gravity necessarily contain a strong curvature naked singularity. We obtain here a family of solutions for static massless scalar fields…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-28 Swastik Bhattacharya , Pankaj S. Joshi

We study the stress-energy tensor of a massless, conformally coupled, quantum scalar field in a rigidly-rotating thermal state on three- and four-dimensional anti-de Sitter space-time. We first find the stress-energy tensor using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-08 Jacob C. Thompson , Elizabeth Winstanley

Inhomogeneous quantum cosmology is modeled as a dynamical system of discrete patches, whose interacting many-body equations can be mapped to a non-linear minisuperspace equation by methods analogous to Bose-Einstein condensation.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-12-18 Martin Bojowald , Alexander L. Chinchilli , Christine C. Dantas , Matthew Jaffe , David Simpson

Quantum chaotic interacting $N$-particle systems are assumed to show fast and irreversible spreading of quantum information on short (Ehrenfest) time scales $\sim\!\log N$. Here we show that, near criticality, certain many-body systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Quirin Hummel , Benjamin Geiger , Juan Diego Urbina , Klaus Richter

We propose an analog quantum simulation for studying the collapse and bounce of a star from infinity. In this spacetime, which encompasses both a black hole and a white hole, we place a massless scalar field that propagates at the speed of…

General Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Marco D. Maceda , Carlos Sabín

Non-autonomous dynamical systems appear in a very wide range of interesting applications, both in classical and quantum dynamics, where in the latter case it corresponds to having a time-dependent Hamiltonian. However, the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Yu Cao , Shi Jin , Nana Liu

We review the recent developments in applying holographic methods to understand non-equilibrium physics in strongly coupled field theories. The emphasis will be on elucidating the relation between evolution of quantum field theories…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-01-05 Veronika E. Hubeny , Mukund Rangamani

Synthesis of many-body quantum systems in the laboratory can help provide further insight into the emergent behavior of quantum materials, whose properties may provide improved methods for energy conversion, signal transport, or information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-28 Xueyue Zhang , Eunjong Kim , Daniel K. Mark , Soonwon Choi , Oskar Painter

State-of-the-art quantum simulators permit local temporal control of interactions and midcircuit readout. These capabilities open the way towards the exploration of intriguing nonequilibrium phenomena. We illustrate this with a kinetically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Marcel Cech , María Cea , Mari Carmen Bañuls , Igor Lesanovsky , Federico Carollo

The aim of this review is to outline a full route from the fundamental principles of algebraic quantum field theory on curved spacetime in its present-day form to explicit phenomenological applications which allow for comparison with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-09-02 Klaus Fredenhagen , Thomas-Paul Hack

Here we study the dynamics of many-body quantum systems using time dependent quantum Monte Carlo method where the evolution is described by ensembles of particles and guide waves. The exponential-time scaling inherent to the quantum…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Ivan P. Christov