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We propose a variation of spacetime noncommutative field theory to realize the stringy spacetime uncertainty relation without breaking any of the global symmetries of the homogeneous isotropic universe. We study the spectrum of metric…

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Planck-scale quantum spacetime undergoes probabilistic local curvature fluctuations whose distributions cannot explicitly depend on position otherwise vacuum's small-scale quantum structure would fail to be statistically homogeneous. Since…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-03-28 Christopher D. Burton

In this work we consider lightcone fluctuation effects in a five-dimensional spacetime arising as a consequence of the compactification of the extra dimension via a quasiperiodic condition, characterized by a phase angle $2\pi\alpha$. By…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-02 Giulia Aleixo , Herondy Mota

The recent observation of high-energy Galactic neutrinos by IceCube allows for searches of new physics affecting neutrino propagation on scales of $O(10^9-10^{15})\,\mathrm{km/GeV}$ in distance over energy. We assess the sensitivity of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-28 Miller MacDonald , Kiara Carloni , Carlos A. Argüelles , Ivan Martínez-Soler , Rafael Alves Batista

The neutrino produced in the pion decay reveals a new diffraction phenomenon due to many-body interactions in an intermediate time region when wave functions of the parent and daughters overlap. Because of diffraction, the probability to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-28 Kenzo Ishikawa , Yutaka Tobita

We study light propagation in a photonic system that shows stepwise evolution in a discretized environment. It resembles a discrete-time version of photonic waveguide arrays or quantum walks. By introducing controlled photon losses to our…

The atmospheric neutrino beam simultaneously spans a range of pathlengths from ten to ten thousand kilometers, which correspond respectively to downward- and upward-going neutrinos. As with any neutrino oscillation experiment, also in this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-12 Thomas K. Gaisser

We discuss recent experimental evidence of decoherence in a laboratory mesoscopic system in a cavity, from which we draw analogies with the decoherence that we argue is induced by microscopic quantum-gravity fluctuations in the space-time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John Ellis , N. E. Mavromatos , D. V. Nanopoulos

We study the flight time fluctuations of a probe light propagating in a slab of nonlinear optical material with an effective fluctuating refractive index caused by thermal fluctuations of background photons at a temperature $T$, which are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-25 Jiawei Hu , Hongwei Yu

Physical systems in real life are inextricably linked to their surroundings and never completely separated from them. Truly closed systems do not exist. The phenomenon of decoherence, which is brought about by the interaction with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-11 Gabriela Barenboim , Alberto M. Gago

Based on the theory of mutual coherence of light from an extended incoherent quasi-monochromatic source (providing a basis of stellar interferometry) we estimate the degree of light incoherence due to quantum-gravitational fluctuations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-14 Michael Maziashvili

We analyze the dynamics of neutrino Gaussian wave-packets, the damping of flavor oscillations and decoherence effects within the framework of extended theories of gravity. In particular, we show that, when the underlying description of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-25 Luca Buoninfante , Giuseppe Gaetano Luciano , Luciano Petruzziello , Luca Smaldone

A neutrino propagating through fluctuating matter can experience large amplitude transitions between its states. Such transitions occur in supernovae and compact object mergers due to turbulent matter profiles and neutrino…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-21 Yue Yang , James P. Kneller

We investigate the interplay between gravity and the quantum coherence present in the state of a pulse of light propagating in curved spacetime. We first introduce an operational way to distinguish between the overall shift in the pulse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 David Edward Bruschi , Symeon Chatzinotas , Frank K. Wilhelm , Andreas W. Schell

This paper provides a simple derivation of the decoherence rate for a diamagnetic nanoparticle in the presence of fluctuations of the magnetic field in a thermal environment. Diamagnetic levitation is one of the key techniques for trapping,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Ruiyun Zhang , Martine Schut , Anupam Mazumdar

We address some theoretical issues of the quantum decoherence phenomenon within the neutrino oscillation framework and carry out various tests under DUNE simulated experimental environment. On the theoretical side, we provide a general…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 Jose Carpio , Eduardo Massoni , Alberto Gago

A theory recently proposed by the author aims to explain decoherence and the thermodynamical behaviour of closed systems within a conservative, unitary, framework for quantum gravity by assuming that the operators tied to the gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Bernard S. Kay

Nondifferentiable fluctuations in space-time on a Planck scale introduce stochastic terms into the equations for quantum states, resulting in a proposed new foundation for an existing alternative quantum theory, primary state diffusion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 I. C. Percival

In the charged pion decay, a neutrino is produced in pair with a charged lepton and they have the same production rate. In this paper we show that neutrinos have their own space-time correlations in a wide area and are detected in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-04-25 Kenzo Ishikawa , Yutaka Tobita

Implications of some proposed theories of quantum gravity for neutrino flavor oscillations are explored within the context of modified dispersion relations of special relativity. In particular, approximate expressions for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Joy Christian