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The dynamics of a particle in a gravitational quantum well is studied in the context of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics with a particular deformation of a two-dimensional Heisenberg algebra. This deformation yields a new short-distance…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Brau , F. Buisseret

The motion of a quantum particle constrained to a two-dimensional non-compact Riemannian manifold with non-trivial metric can be described by a flat-space Schroedinger-type equation at the cost of introducing local mass and metric and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Benjamin Schwager , Theresa Appel , Jamal Berakdar

Noncommutative quantum mechanics can be considered as a first step in the construction of quantum field theory on noncommutative spaces of generic form, when the commutator between coordinates is a function of these coordinates. In this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-11-20 V. G. Kupriyanov

The mathematical formalism for linear quantum field theory on curved spacetime depends in an essential way on the assumption of global hyperbolicity. Physically, what lie at the foundation of any formalism for quantization in curved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Ulvi Yurtsever

The higher dimensional Quantum General Relativity of a Riemannian manifold being an embedded space in a space-time being a Lorentzian manifold is investigated. The model of quantum geometrodynamics, based on the Wheeler-DeWitt equation…

General Physics · Physics 2016-08-11 Lukasz Andrzej Glinka , Patrick Linker

Having started with the general formulation of the quantum theory of the real scalar field (QFT) in the general Riemannian space--time $ V_{1,3} $, the general--covariant quasinonrelativistic quantum mechanics of a point-like spinless…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 E. A. Tagirov

Determining the quantum circuit complexity of a unitary operation is closely related to the problem of finding minimal length paths in a particular curved geometry [Nielsen et al, Science 311, 1133-1135 (2006)]. This paper investigates many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark R. Dowling , Michael A. Nielsen

Geometric phase that manifests itself in number of optic and nuclear experiments is shown to be a useful tool for realization of quantum computations in so called holonomic quantum computer model (HQCM). This model is considered as an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-07-04 A. E. Shalyt-Margolin , V. I. Strazhev , A. Ya. Tregubovich

Non-relativistic quantum mechanics is shown to emerge from classical mechanics through the requirement of a relativity principle based on special transformations acting on position and momentum uncertainties. These transformations keep the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Léon Brenig

We derive the geodesic equation for point particles propagating in Moyal-type noncommutative spacetimes using a field-theoretic approach based on the quasi-classical limit of the noncommutative Klein-Gordon equation. Starting from a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-27 Carolina Matté Gregory , Tajron Jurić , Aleksandr Pinzul

Many basis sets for electronic structure calculations evolve with varying external parameters, such as moving atoms in dynamic simulations, giving rise to extra derivative terms in the dynamical equations. Here we revisit these derivatives…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Emilio Artacho , David D. O'Regan

Quantum mechanics is among the most important and successful mathematical model for describing our physical reality. The traditional formulation of quantum mechanics is linear and algebraic. In contrast classical mechanics is a geometrical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-03 Hoshang Heydari

After a brief introduction, basic ideas of the quantum Riemannian geometry underlying loop quantum gravity are summarized. To illustrate physical ramifications of quantum geometry, the framework is then applied to homogeneous isotropic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Abhay Ashtekar

Noncommutative or `quantum' differential geometry has emerged in recent years as a process for quantizing not only a classical space into a noncommutative algebra (as familiar in quantum mechanics) but also differential forms, bundles and…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2014-10-31 Edwin J. Beggs , Shahn Majid

Quantum geometrodynamics is canonical quantum gravity with the three-metric as the configuration variable. Its central equation is the Wheeler--DeWitt equation. Here I give an overview of the status of this approach. The issues discussed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-04-17 Claus Kiefer

In this paper we present some results obtained in a previous paper about the Cartan's approach to Riemannian normal coordinates and our conformal transformations among pseudo-Riemannian manifolds. We also review the classical and the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-06-24 A. C. V. V. de Siqueira

The quantum geometric tensor (QGT) characterizes the Hilbert space geometry of the eigenstates of a parameter-dependent Hamiltonian. In recent years, the QGT and related quantities have found extensive theoretical and experimental utility,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-11-20 Rustem Sharipov , Anastasiia Tiutiakina , Alexander Gorsky , Vladimir Gritsev , Anatoli Polkovnikov

With approaching quantum/noncommutative models for the deep microscopic spacetime in mind, and inspired by our recent picture of the (projective) Hilbert space as the model of physical space behind basic quantum mechanics, we reformulate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-13 Chuan Sheng Chew , Otto C. W. Kong , Jason Payne

The description of a closed quantum system is extended with the identification of an underlying substructure enabling an expanded formulation of dynamics in the Heisenberg picture. Between measurements a ``state point" moves in an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Anthony John Bracken

We prove that the geodesics associated with any metric generated from Liouville quantum gravity (LQG) which satisfies certain natural hypotheses are necessarily singular with respect to the law of any type of SLE$_\kappa$. These hypotheses…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-10-17 Jason Miller , Wei Qian