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The recent evidence for a cosmological evolution of the fine structure constant \alpha=e^2/\hbar c found from an analysis of absorption systems in the spectra of distant quasars, is modelled by a cosmological scenario in which it is assumed…

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The effect of fractal space time of the quantum particles on the variation of the fine structure constant $\alpha$ has been studied. The variation of fine structure constant has been investigated around De Broglie length $\lambda$ and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-05 A. Bhattacharya , A. Chandra , B. Chakrabarti

The fine structure constant, alpha, is shown to be proportional to the ratio of the quanta of electric and magnetic flux of force of the electron, and provides a new representation, which is global across all unit systems. Consequently, a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-14 Michael Edmund Tobar

Competing interactions, non-trivial electronic band topology, quantum fluctuations, and the interplay between emergent degrees of freedom in frustrated quantum materials can give rise to a wide range of exotic phenomena. Glassy dynamics,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-08 U. Jena , M. Barman , A. Pradhan , P. Khuntia

The coupling of a quantum system to an environment leads generally to decoherence, and it is detrimental to quantum correlations within the system itself. Yet some forms of quantum correlations can be robust to the presence of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 Dolf Huybrechts , Tommaso Roscilde

Till now, the foundation of quantum physics is still mysterious. To explore the mysteries in the foundation of quantum physics, people always take it for granted that quantum processes must be some types of fields/objects on a rigid space.…

General Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Su-Peng Kou

Understanding physical properties of quantum emitters strongly interacting with quantized electromagnetic modes is one of the primary goals in the emergent field of waveguide quantum electrodynamics (QED). When the light-matter coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-30 Yuto Ashida , Takeru Yokota , Atac Imamoglu , Eugene Demler

The many experimental puzzles of solid hydrogen, that seem to defy the generally accepted view of condensed matter, are shown to be a rather straightforward consequence of a new approach to condensed matter physics, that takes into account…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Buzzacchi , E. Del Giudice , G. Preparata , S. S. Xue

Changes in the values of the fundamental constants mu, the proton to electron mass ratio, and alpha, the fine structure constant due to rolling scalar fields have been discussed both in the context of cosmology and in new physics such as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Rodger I. Thompson

The discovery of quasicrystals with crystallographically forbidden rotational symmetries has changed the notion of the ordering in materials, yet little is known about the dynamical emergence of such exotic forms of order. Here we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-11-27 Farokh Mivehvar , Helmut Ritsch , Francesco Piazza

A number of recent proposals for a quantum theory of gravity are based on the idea that spacetime geometry and gravity are derivative concepts and only apply at an approximate level. There are two fundamental challenges to any such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-23 Alioscia Hamma , Fotini Markopoulou

The case of a coupling between dark energy and matter (Coupled Quintessence) or gravity (Extended Quintessence) has recently attracted a deep interest and has been widely investigated both in the Einstein and in the Jordan frames (EF, JF),…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Valeria Pettorino , Carlo Baccigalupi

The neutral biexciton cascade of single quantum dots is a promising source of entangled photon pairs. The character of the entangled state is determined by the energy difference between the excitonic eigenstates known as fine-structure…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-29 M. A. Pooley , A. J. Bennett , R. M. Stevenson , A. J. Shields , I. Farrer , D. A. Ritchie

Cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED) studies the interaction between light and matter at the single quantum level and has played a central role in quantum science and technology. Combining the idea of cavity QED with moir\'e materials, we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-06-14 Kanta Masuki , Yuto Ashida

We develop a covariant density matrix approach to kinetic theory of QED plasmas subjected into a strong external electromagnetic field. A canonical quantization of the system on space-like hyperplanes in Minkowski space and a covariant…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Hoell , V. G. Morozov , G. Roepke

We investigate thermodynamical properties of quantum electrodynamics in 1+1 dimensions. Discrete light cone quantization is used to compute the partition function of the canonical ensemble and the thermodynamical potential. The potential is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-02-19 S. Strauss , M. Beyer

Within a self-consistent framework of q-deformed Heisenberg algebra and its equivalent framework of q-deformed boson commutation relations, which relate to the under-cutting phenomenon of Heisenberg's minimal uncertainty relation, special…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Per Osland , Jian-zu Zhang

Waveguide quantum electrodynamics (QED) provides a powerful framework for engineering quantum interactions, traditionally relying on periodic photonic arrays with continuous energy bands. Here, we investigate waveguide QED in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Florian Bönsel , Flore K. Kunst , Federico Roccati

Magnetars are surrounded by diffuse plasma in magnetic field strengths well above the quantum electrodynamic critical value. We derive equations of "quantum force-free electrodynamics" for this plasma using effective field theory arguments.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 Marat Freytsis , Samuel E. Gralla

We explore the potential variation of two fundamental constants, the fine-structure constant $\alpha$ and the proton-to-electron mass ratio $\mu$, within the framework of modified gravity theories and finite-temperature effects. Utilising…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-17 Akhil Uniyal , Surajit Kalita , Yosuke Mizuno , Sayan Chakrabarti , Yan Lu