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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

The formalism of generalized Wigner transformations developped in a previous paper, is applied to kinetic equations of the Lindblad type for quantum harmonic oscillator models. It is first applied to an oscillator coupled to an equilibrium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Tzanakis , A. P. Grecos , P. Hatjimanolaki

A proper deformation of the underlying coordinate and momentum commutation relations in quantum mechanics provides a phenomenological approach to account for the influence of gravity on small scales. Introducing the squared momentum term…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-15 Y. V. Przhiyalkovskiy

Quantum gravity theories predict a minimal length at the order of magnitude of the Planck length, under which the concepts of space and time lose every physical meaning. In quantum mechanics, the insurgence of such minimal length can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-08 Matteo A. C. Rossi , Tommaso Giani , Matteo G. A. Paris

Since the very early days of quantum theory there have been numerous attempts to interpret quantum mechanics as a statistical theory. This is equivalent to describing quantum states and ensembles together with their dynamics entirely in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-21 R. P. Rundle , Todd Tilma , J. H. Samson , V. M. Dwyer , R. F. Bishop , M. J. Everitt

The effects of noncommutativity and of the existence of a minimal length on the phase space of a dilatonic cosmological model are investigated. The existence of a minimum length, results in the Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP), which…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Babak Vakili

Various theories of quantum gravity predict the existence of a minimum length scale, which leads to the modification of the standard uncertainty principle to the Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP). In this paper, we study two forms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-31 Mohammed M. Khalil

We review the Weyl-Wigner formulation of quantum mechanics in phase space. We discuss the concept of Narcowich-Wigner spectrum and use it to state necessary and sufficient conditions for a phase space function to be a Wigner distribution.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Nuno Costa Dias , Joao Nuno Prata

Studies in string theory and quantum gravity lead to the Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) and suggest the existence of a fundamental minimal length which, as was established, can be obtained within the deformed Heisenberg algebra.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 V. M. Tkachuk

We analyze the issue of unitary equivalence within Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) theories in the one-dimensional case. For a deformed Heisenberg algebra, its representation in terms of Hilbert space and conjugate operators is not…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Sebastiano Segreto , Matteo Bruno

Several phenomenological approaches to quantum gravity predict the existence of a minimal measurable length and/or a maximum measurable momentum near the Planck scale. When embedded into the framework of quantum mechanics, such constraints…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-30 Eissa Al-Nasrallah , Saurya Das , Fabrizio Illuminati , Luciano Petruzziello , Elias C. Vagenas

The Weyl-Wigner representation of quantum mechanics allows one to map the density operator in a function in phase space - the Wigner function - which acts like a probability distribution. In the context of statistical mechanics, this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-31 Marcos Gil de Oliveira , Alfredo Miguel Ozorio de Almeida

We extend the Wigner-Weyl-Moyal phase-space formulation of quantum mechanics to general curved configuration spaces. The underlying phase space is based on the chosen coordinates of the manifold and their canonically conjugate momenta. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Clemens Gneiting , Timo Fischer , Klaus Hornberger

The existence of a minimal measurable length is a common feature of various approaches to quantum gravity such as string theory, loop quantum gravity and black-hole physics. In this scenario, all commutation relations are modified and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-01-16 Pouria Pedram

Existence of a minimal measurable length and an upper bound for the momentum fluctuations are the casting reasons for generalization of uncertainty principle and then reformulation of Hilbert space representation of quantum mechanics. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-29 N. Sadeghnezhad

The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (HUP) limits the accuracy in the simultaneous measurements of the position and momentum variables of any quantum system. This is known to be true in the context of non-relativistic quantum mechanics.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-25 Jaume Giné , Giuseppe Gaetano Luciano

Extending the phase-space description of the Weyl-Wigner quantum mechanics to a subset of non-linear Hamiltonians in position and momentum, gaussian functions are identified as the quantum ground state. Once a Hamiltonian, $H^{W}(q,\,p)$,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Alex E. Bernardini , Orfeu Bertolami

In this paper, we study supersymmetry in quantum mechanics using the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP), or in other words, generalized supersymmetry in quantum mechanics. We construct supersymmetry in the generalized form of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-06 Meysam Hassandoust

The Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) is a modification of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle predicted by several theories of quantum gravity. In this work, we compute GUP corrections to the well-known Jaynes-Cummings Model (JCM)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-22 Kabir Khanna , Saurya Das

Phase-space features of the Wigner flow for generic one-dimensional systems with a Hamiltonian, $H^{W}(q,\,p)$, constrained by the $\partial ^2 H^{W} / \partial q \partial p = 0$ condition are analytically obtained in terms of Wigner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-21 Alex E. Bernardini , Orfeu Bertolami