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This paper is a continuation of a study of the properties and applications of quantum stress tensor fluctuations. Here we treat the vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic energy-momentum flux operator which as been averaged in space and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-05 L. H. Ford

The theory of cosmological fluctuations assumes that the pre-inflationary state of the universe was the quantum vacuum of a scalar field(s) coupled to gravity. The observed cosmic microwave background fluctuations are then interpreted as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-03 S. P. de Alwis

We analyze the size and evolution of quantum fluctuations of cosmologically relevant geometric observables, in the context of the effective relational cosmological dynamics of GFT models of quantum gravity. We consider the fluctuations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-23 Luca Marchetti , Daniele Oriti

We derive a simple and general relation between the fidelity of quantum motion, characterizing the stability of quantum dynamics with respect to arbitrary static perturbation of the unitary evolution propagator, and the integrated time…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tomaz Prosen , Marko Znidaric

The decay of a passive scalar in a three-dimensional chaotic flow is studied using high-resolution numerical simulations. The (volume-preserving) flow considered is a three-dimensional extension of the randomised alternating sine flow…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-03-18 Keith Ngan , Jacques Vanneste

A sweep through a quantum phase transition by means of a time-dependent external parameter (e.g., pressure) entails non-equilibrium phenomena associated with a break-down of adiabaticity: At the critical point, the energy gap vanishes and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Ralf Schützhold

During the inflationary phase of the early universe, quantum fluctuations in the vacuum generate particles as they stretch beyond the Hubble length. These fluctuations are thought to result in the density fluctuations and gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jeremy S. Heyl

What is the major difference between large and small systems? At small length-scales the dynamics is dominated by fluctuations, whereas at large scales fluctuations are irrelevant. Therefore, any thermodynamically consistent description of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-13 Akira Sone , Kanu Sinha , Sebastian Deffner

Measurement choices in weakly-measured open quantum systems can affect quantum trajectory chaos. We consider this scenario semi-classically and show that measurement acts as nonlinear generalized fluctuation and dissipation forces. These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-30 S. Greenfield , Y. Shi , J. K. Eastman , A. R. R. Carvalho , A. K. Pattanayak

We study the emergent dynamics resulting from the infinite volume limit of the mean-field dissipative dynamics of quantum spin chains with clustering, but not time-invariant states. We focus upon three algebras of spin operators: the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-24 Fabio Benatti , Federico Carollo , Roberto Floreanini , Heide Narnhofer

In this work we show a class of oscillating configurations for the evolution of the domain walls in Euclidean space. The solutions are obtained analytically. Phase transitions are achieved from the associated fluctuation determinant, by the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-03 R. A. C. Correa , P. H. R. S. Moraes , Roldao da Rocha

The quantum fluctuations of the geodesic deviation equation in a flat background spacetime are discussed. We calculate the resulting mean squared fluctuations in the relative velocity and separation of test particles. The effect of these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-10 H. S. Vieira , L. H. Ford , V. B. Bezerra

We study the stability of quantum motion of classically regular systems in presence of small perturbations. Onthe base of a uniform semiclassical theory we derive the fidelity decay which displays a quite complexbehaviour, from Gaussian to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Wen-ge Wang , G. Casati , Baowen Li

Fluctuations of conserved quantum numbers are associated with the corresponding susceptibilities because of the symmetry of the system. The underlying fact is that these fluctuations as defined through the static correlators become…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-07 Sanjay K. Ghosh , Anirban Lahiri , Sarbani Majumder , Munshi G. Mustafa , Sibaji Raha , Rajarshi Ray

Recent experimental and theoretical works have uncovered nontrivial quantum dynamics due to external dissipation. Using an exact numerical method and a renormalization-group-based analytical technique, we theoretically elucidate that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Kazuya Fujimoto , Ryusuke Hamazaki , Yuki Kawaguchi

We compute thermal and quantum fluctuations in the background of a domain wall in a scalar field theory at finite temperature using the exact scalar propagator in the subspace orthogonal to the wall's translational mode. The propagator…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Carlos A. A. de Carvalho

Mesoscopic effects associated with wave propagation in spacetime with metric stochasticity are studied. We show that the scalar and spinor waves in a stochastic spacetime behave similarly to the electrons in a disordered system. Viewing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 K. Shiokawa

The statistics of electron transport in a quantum conductor is affected by fluctuations of its voltage bias. Here we show experimentally how a third order correlation in the electromagnetic field arises from the noise of a tunnel junction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Clovis Farley , Edouard Pinsolle , Bertrand Reulet

In quantum gravity, fields may lose quantum coherence by scattering off vacuum fluctuations in which virtual black hole pairs appear and disappear. Although it is not possible to properly compute the scattering off such fluctuations, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 S. W. Hawking , Simon F. Ross

The behavior of a arbitrary coupled quantum scalar field is studied in the background of the G\"odel spacetime. Closed forms are derived for the effective action and the vacuum expectation value of quadratic field fluctuations by using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Eugen Radu , Dumitru Astefanesei