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With the aid of a Fermi-Walker chart associated with an orthonormal frame attached to a time-like curve in spacetime, a discussion is given of relativistic balance laws that may be used to construct models of massive particles with spin,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Robin W. Tucker

The NewtonWigner basis of orthonormal localized states is generalized to orthonormal and relativistic biorthonormal bases on an arbitrary hyperplane in spacetime. This covariant formalism is applied to the measurement of photon location…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Margaret Hawton

An earlier scheme [arXiv:2404.03360], where torsion plays an essential part in a flat spacetime account of fermion spin, is extended to spacetimes with non-zero Riemann curvature. It is found that further essential features of the fermion,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-18 William J. Leigh

The concept of fixed-area states has proven useful for recent studies of quantum gravity, especially in connection with gravitational holography. We explore the Lorentz-signature spacetime geometry intrinsic to such fixed-area states in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-07 Xi Dong , Donald Marolf , Pratik Rath , Amirhossein Tajdini , Zhencheng Wang

We explore singularity-free and geodesically-complete cosmologies based on manifolds that are not quite Lorentzian. The metric can be either smooth everywhere or non-degenerate everywhere, but not both, depending on the coordinate system.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-02 Bob Holdom

We study the phase space structure and the quantization of a pointlike particle in 2+1 dimensional gravity. By adding boundary terms to the first order Einstein Hilbert action, and removing all redundant gauge degrees of freedom, we arrive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Hans-Juergen Matschull , Max Welling

All existing experimental results are currently interpreted using classical geometry. However, there are theoretical reasons to suspect that at a deeper level, geometry emerges as an approximate macroscopic behavior of a quantum system at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-21 Craig Hogan

The quantum measurement problems are revisited from a new perspective. One of the main ideas of this work is that the basic entities of our world are various types of particles, elementary or composite. It follows that each elementary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Kenichi Konishi

This essay argues that when measurement processes involve energies of the order of the Planck scale, the fundamental assumption of locality may no longer be a good approximation. Idealized position measurements of two distinguishable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 D. V. Ahluwalia

In this paper we review some aspects of relativistic particles' mechanics in the case of a non-trivial geometry of momentum space. We start with showing how the curved momentum space arises in the theory of gravity in 2+1 dimensions coupled…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-09-11 J. Kowalski-Glikman

Some of the most outstanding questions in the field of gravitation and geometry remain unsolved as a result of our limited understanding of the global structure of the spacetime geometry and the role played by global spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-09-23 M. Iftime

In a sense of deformation quantization, noncommutative (NC) geometry introduces a quantum structure of spacetime. Using the twist-deformation formalism, we show that the dynamical effects of spacetime noncommutativity can amount to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-17 Dušan Đorđević , Dragoljub Gočanin

Polaritons are the collective excitations of many atoms dressed by resonant photons, which can be used to explain the slow light propagation with the mechanism of electromagnetically induced transparency. As quasi-particles, these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Lan Zhou , Jing Lu , D. L. Zhou , C. P. Sun

Using concepts of geometric orthogonality and linear independence, we logically deduce the form of the Pauli spin matrices and the relationships between the three spatially orthogonal basis sets of the spin-1/2 system. Rather than a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-13 Dallin S. Durfee , James L. Archibald

A novel theory of Quantum Gravity is presented in which the real gravitons manifest themselves as holes in space. In general, these holes propagate at the speed of light through an expanding universe with boundary denoted by U, which is…

General Physics · Physics 2015-08-26 Gregory W. Horndeski

This is a research announcement on what is best termed `nonlocal' methods in mathematics. (This is not to be confused with global analysis.) The nonlocal formulation of physics in \cite{principia} points to a fresh viewpoint in mathematics:…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mukul Patel

In this study, we investigate the polarization properties of gravitational waves within a torsionless spacetime framework, as described by the Palatini formalism. Our analysis uncovers the presence of two novel polarization modes, referred…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-06 Yu-Qi Dong , Xiao-Bin Lai , Yu-Zhi Fan , Yu-Xiao Liu

Quantum geometry governs a wide range of transport and optical phenomena in quantum materials. Recent works have explored analogue electromagnetism and gravity in terms of the quantum geometric tensor, whose real and imaginary parts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Luca Maranzana , Koki Shinada , Ying-Ming Xie , Sergey Artyukhin , Naoto Nagaosa

A new path equation in absolute parallelism (AP) geometry is derived. The equation is a generalization of three path equations derived in a previous work. It can be considered as a geodesic equation modified by a torsion term, whose…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. I. Wanas

The transport equations for polarized radiation transfer in non-Riemannian, Weyl-Cartan type space-times are derived, with the effects of both torsion and non-metricity included. To obtain the basic propagation equations we use the tangent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 K. S. Cheng , T. Harko , X. Y. Wang