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The null geodesic equations in the Alcubierre warp drive spacetime are numerically integrated to determine the angular deflection and redshift of photons which propagate through the distortion of the ``warp drive'' bubble to reach an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Chad Clark , William A. Hiscock , Shane L. Larson

It can be shown that negative energy requirements within the Alcubierre spacetime can be greatly reduced when one introduces a lapse function into the Einstein tensor. Thereby reducing the negative energy requirements of the warp drive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Loup , D. Waite , E. Halerewicz

It is commonly believed that Alcubierre's warp drive works by contracting space in front of the warp bubble and expanding space behind it. We show that this expansion/contraction is but a marginal consequence of the choice made by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Jose Natario

Quantum gravity has long remained elusive from an observational standpoint. Developing effective cosmological models motivated by the fundamental aspects of quantum gravity is crucial for bridging theory with observations. One key aspect is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-02 Emma Albertini , Arad Nasiri , Emanuele Panella

We consider the problem of whether there are deterministic theories describing the evolution of an individual physical system in terms of the definite trajectories of its constituent particles and which stay in the same relation to Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 E. Deotto , G. C. Ghirardi

The usual concepts of topological physics, such as the Berry curvature, cannot be applied directly to non-Hermitian systems. We show that another object, the quantum metric, which often plays a secondary role in Hermitian systems, becomes a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 D. D. Solnyshkov , C. Leblanc , L. Bessonart , A. Nalitov , J. Ren , Q. Liao , F. Li , G. Malpuech

A quantum fractal is a wavefunction with a real and an imaginary part continuous everywhere, but differentiable nowhere. This lack of differentiability has been used as an argument to deny the general validity of Bohmian mechanics (and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-03 A. S. Sanz

Quantum-mechanical wave equation for a particle with spin 1 is investigated in presence of external magnetic field in spaces with non-Euclidean geometry with constant positive curvature. Separation of the variable is performed; differential…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-11-26 V. V. Kisel , E. M. Ovsiyuk , O. V. Veko , V. M. Red'kov

The path integral for higher-derivative quantum gravity with torsion is considered. Applying the methods of two-dimensional quantum gravity, this path integral is analyzed in the limit of conformally self-dual metrics. A scaling law for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-17 E. Elizalde , S. D. Odintsov

One of the important and famous topics in general theory of relativity and gravitation is the problem of geodesic deviation and its related singularity theorems. An interesting subject is the investigation of these concepts when quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-28 Faramarz Rahmani , Mehdi Golshani

Quantum gravity aims to describe gravity in quantum mechanical terms. How exactly this needs to be done remains an open question. Various proposals have been put on the table, such as canonical quantum gravity, loop quantum gravity, string…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-22 Nelson Pinto-Neto , Ward Struyve

The Alcubierre warp spacetime yields a fascinating chance for comfortable interstellar travel between arbitrary distant places without the time dilation effect as in special relativistic flights. Even though the warp spacetime needs exotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Thomas Müller , Daniel Weiskopf

In classical relativistic mechanics, a "preferred" proper direction in spacetime for each particle is determined by the direction of its 4-momentum. Analogously, for each quantum particle we find a local direction uniquely determined by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-29 H. Nikolic

We present a set of equations describing the cosmological gravitational wave in a gravity theory with quadratic order gravitational coupling terms which naturally arise in quantum correction procedures. It is known that the gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 H. Noh , J. Hwang

We use an alternative interpretation of quantum mechanics, based on the Bohmian trajectory approach, and show that the quantum effects can be included in the classical equation of motion via a conformal transformation on the background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-20 G. Gregori , B. Reville , B. Larder

Motivated by the power of subregion/subregion duality for constraining the bulk geometry in gauge/gravity duality, we pursue a comprehensive and systematic approach to the behavior of extremal surfaces under perturbations. Specifically, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-01-08 Netta Engelhardt , Sebastian Fischetti

One of the biggest unsolved problems in physics is the unification of quantum mechanics and general relativity. The lack of experimental guidance has made the issue extremely evasive, though various attempts have been made to relate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Charles H. -T. Wang , Robert Bingham , J. Tito Mendonca

Berry phases have long been known to significantly alter the properties of periodic systems, resulting in anomalous terms in the semiclassical equations of motion describing wave-packet dynamics. In non-Hermitian systems, generalizations of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Bar Alon , Roni Ilan , Moshe Goldstein

Recently, Bohmian mechanics has been challenged [Nature 643, 67 (2025)] by studying a system in which the motion of particles cannot be associated only with the gradient of phase of the wave function. We point out that, in general, Bohmian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Hrvoje Nikolic

The classical trajectories for FLRW universe with varying speed of light are obtained for the cases in which the cosmological constant depends or not depend on the velocity of light. The theory is then quantized and the corresponding WDW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-25 F. Shojai , S. Molladavoudi