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The minimal-length paradigm, a possible implication of quantum gravity at low energies, is commonly understood as a phenomenological modification of Heisenberg's uncertainty relation. We show that this modification is equivalent to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-28 Pasquale Bosso , Luciano Petruzziello , Fabian Wagner

The existence of a fundamental scale, a lower bound to any output of a position measurement, seems to be a model-independent feature of quantum gravity. In fact, different approaches to this theory lead to this result. The key ingredients…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Luis J. Garay

Many theories that attempt to formulate a quantum description of gravity suggest the existence of a fundamental minimum length scale. A popular method for incorporating this minimum length is through a modification of the Heisenberg…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-18 William M. Campbell , Michael E. Tobar , Serge Galliou , Maxim Goryachev

One of the main quests in quantum metrology, and quantum parameter estimation in general, is to find out the highest achievable precision with given resources and design schemes that attain that precision. In this article we present a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-23 Haidong Yuan , Chi-Hang Fred Fung

The existence of minimal length scale has motivated the proposal of generalized uncertainty principle, which provides a potential routine to probe quantum gravitational effects in low-energy quantum mechanics experiment. Hitherto, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-26 Yue-Yue Chen , Xun-Li Feng , C. H. Oh , Zhi-Zhan Xu

Quantum-enhanced measurements exploit quantum mechanical effects to provide ultra-precise estimates of physical variables for use in advanced technologies, such as frequency calibration of atomic clocks, gravitational waves detection, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-28 J. Calsamiglia , B. Gendra , R. Munoz-Tapia , E. Bagan

A satisfactory theory of quantum gravity may necessitate a drastic modification of our perception of space-time, by giving it a foamy structure at distances comparable to the Planck length. It is argued in this essay that the experimental…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-11 John. Ellis , N. E. Mavromatos , D. V. Nanopoulos

The existence of a minimal observable length has long been suggested, in quantum gravity, as well as in string theory. In this context a generalized uncertainty relation has been derived which quantum theoretically describes the minimal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-09 A. Kempf , G. Mangano , R. B. Mann

Quantum probing consists of suitably exploiting a simple, small, and controllable quantum system to characterize a larger and more complex system. Here, we address the estimation of the cutoff frequency of the Ohmic spectral density of a…

Quantum metrology offers an enhanced performance in experiments such as gravitational wave-detection, magnetometry or atomic clocks frequency calibration. The enhancement, however, requires a delicate tuning of relevant quantum features…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-25 Jan Kolodynski , Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski

At the beginning of the previous century, Newtonian mechanics fell victim to two new revolutionary theories, Quantum Mechanics (QM) and General Relativity (GR). Both theories have transformed our view of physical phenomena, with QM…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-22 Richard Howl , Lucia Hackermuller , David Edward Bruschi , Ivette Fuentes

Inspired by the work of Wheeler among others, we have studied the problem of quantum measurements of space-time distances by applying the general principles of quantum mechanics as well as those of general relativity. Contrary to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-28 Y. Jack Ng

We address quantum estimation in situations where one has at disposal data from the measurement of an incomplete set of observables and some a priori information on the state itself. By expressing the a priori information in terms of a bias…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stefano Olivares , Matteo G. A. Paris

Hartree-Fock approximation suffers from two inabilities including i) the divergence of electron Fermi velocity , and ii) existence of bandwidth not confirmed experimentally. Here, we study the effects of minimal length on the ground state…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-11-02 M. Mohammadi Sabet , H. Moradpour , M. Bahadoran , Amir Hadi ziaie

Different candidates of Quantum Gravity such as String Theory, Doubly Special Relativity, Loop Quantum Gravity and black hole physics all predict the existence of a minimum observable length or a maximum observable momentum which modifies…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-30 Pouria Pedram

Quantum measurements, alongside quantum states and processes, form a cornerstone of quantum information processing. However, unlike states and processes, their efficient characterisation remains relatively unexplored. We resolve this…

Distributed computing seems to be a natural approach to overcome size limitations of quantum computers in terms of number of qubits. But one lacks an efficient distribution approach to deal systematically with potential algorithms. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-21 Iaakov Exman , Efrat Levy

Various theories that aim at unifying gravity with quantum mechanics suggest modifications of the Heisenberg algebra for position and momentum. From the perspective of quantum mechanics, such modifications lead to new uncertainty relations…

We solve a general equation describing the lowest order corrections arising from quantum gravitational effects to the spectrum of cosmological fluctuations. The spectra of scalar and tensor perturbations are calculated to first order in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Alexander Y. Kamenshchik , Alessandro Tronconi , Giovanni Venturi

It is commonly accepted that the combination of quantum mechanics and general relativity gives rise to the emergence of a minimum uncertainty both in space and time. The arguments that support this conclusion are mainly based on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Pablo Galan , Guillermo A. Mena Marugan