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The electrostatic self-force on a point charge in cylindrical thin-shell space-times is interpreted as the sum of a $bulk$ field and a $shell$ field. The $bulk$ part corresponds to a field sourced by the test charge placed in a space-time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-05 Emilio Rubín de Celis

We discuss the finite-time collapse, also referred as blow-up, of the solutions of a discrete nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger (DNLS) equation incorporating linear and nonlinear gain and loss. This DNLS system appears in many inherently discrete…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-01-30 G. Fotopoulos , N. I. Karachalios , V. Koukouloyannis , K. Vetas

We consider a minisuperspace model for a closed universe with small and positive cosmological constant, filled with a massive scalar field conformally coupled to gravity. In the quantum version of this model, the universe may undergo a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Levkov , C. Rebbi , V. A. Rubakov

We study the limitations for defining spatial and temporal intervals when the only available reference frame is a single composite quantum system, whose internal degrees of freedom serve as a temporal reference, a clock, and whose center of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Davide Mattei , Esteban Castro-Ruiz

In previous works, we showed that both time and space can emerge from entanglement within a globally constrained quantum Universe, with no background coordinates. By extending the Page and Wootters quantum time formalism to include both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 Tommaso Favalli

The problem of time is a deep paradox in our physical description of the world. According to Aristotle's relational theory, time is a measure of change and does not exist on its own. In contrast, quantum mechanics, just like Newtonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-23 Dries Sels , Michiel Wouters

The problem of the time is one of the open issues in the quantum gravity. This problem is particular problem in the canonical quantum gravity. Even in the loop gravity the problem of the time remain. Our work is concerning to the problem of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-11 Shintaro Sawayama

We show that the Wheeler-DeWitt equation with a consistent boundary condition is only compatible with an arrow of time that formally reverses in a recollapsing universe. Consistency of these opposite arrows is facilitated by quantum effects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 C. Kiefer , H. D. Zeh

This papers presents a formalism describing the dynamics of a quantum particle in a one-dimensional tilted time-dependent lattice. The description uses the Wannier-Stark states, which are localized in each site of the lattice and provides a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Quentin Thommen , Jean Claude Garreau , Veronique Zehnle

We solve the Klein-Gordon equation for a scalar field, in the background geometry of a dust cloud collapsing to form a black hole, everywhere in the (1+1) spacetime: that is, both inside and outside the event horizon and arbitrarily close…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-07 Sumanta Chakraborty , Suprit Singh , T. Padmanabhan

The model of weak measurements is applied to various problems, related to the time problem in quantum mechanics. The review and generalization of the theoretical analysis of the time problem in quantum mechanics based on the concept of weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 J. Ruseckas , B. Kaulakys

We argue that space and space-time emerge as a consequence of dynamical collapse of the wave function of macroscopic objects. Locality and separability are properties of our approximate, emergent universe. At the fundamental level,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Tejinder P. Singh

We study the quantum properties of an oscillator in proper time. This proper time oscillator is a particle model with mass that is on shell. Its internal time can be treated as a self-adjoint operator. The displaced time and displaced time…

General Physics · Physics 2022-03-24 Hou Y. Yau

Quantum time dilation occurs when a clock moves in a superposition of relativistic momentum wave packets. We utilize the lifetime of an excited hydrogen-like atom as a clock to demonstrate how quantum time dilation manifests in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Piotr T. Grochowski , Alexander R. H. Smith , Andrzej Dragan , Kacper Dębski

We replace the usual Hamiltonian constraint of quantum gravity H|psi>=0 by a weaker one <psi|H|psi>=0. This allows |psi> to satisfy the time-dependent functional Schrodinger equation. In general, only the phase of the wave function appears…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Nikolic

The independent dynamical variables of a collapsing homogeneous sphere of dust are canonically quantised and coupled equations describing matter (dust) and gravitation are obtained. The conditions for the validity of the adiabatic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Roberto Casadio

Microscopic quantum laws are time-symmetric: nothing in the Schr\"odinger equation or its relativistic extensions distinguishes future from past. Yet measurements produce irreversible records, an apparently one-way causal flow, and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Alejandro Frank

The self-gravitating, spherically symmetric thin shells built of orbiting particles are sstudied. Two new features are found. One is the minimal possible value for an angular momentum of particles, above which elleptic orbits become…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Victor Berezin , Maxim Okhrimenko

Quantum collapses and revivals are fascinating manifestations of interference. Of particular interest in recent years are macroscopic quantum interference effects in Bose-Einstein condensates. In this letter such effects will be studied for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-28 Hagar Veksler , Shmuel Fishman

Several examples are known where quantum gravity effects resolve the classical big bang singularity by a bounce. The most detailed analysis has probably occurred for loop quantum cosmology of isotropic models sourced by a free, massless…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-18 Martin Bojowald