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Let us consider a reference frame for which the pseudo-Euclidean geometry is valid (prefered frame). The equations of Maxwell in empty space have a simple form and are derived from a Lagrangian. In a medium magnetic permeability and…

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A simple framework for Dirac spinors is developed that parametrizes admissible quantum dynamics and also analytically constructs electromagnetic fields, obeying Maxwell's equations, which yield a desired evolution. In particular, we show…

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Time dependent signals in experimental techniques such as Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and Muon Spin Relaxation (muSR) are often the result of an ensemble average over many microscopical dynamical processes. While there are a number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-07 Simone Sturniolo

The evolution equations of Einstein's theory and of Maxwell's theory---the latter used as a simple model to illustrate the former--- are written in gauge covariant first order symmetric hyperbolic form with only physically natural…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 A. Abrahams , A. Anderson , Y. Choquet-Bruhat , J. W. York

We obtain the renormalized equations of motion for matter and semi-classical gravity in an inhomogeneous space-time. We use the functional Schrodinger picture and a simple Gaussian approximation to analyze the time evolution of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 H. C. Reis

Solving the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation (TDSE) is pivotal for modeling non-adiabatic electron dynamics, a key process in ultrafast spectroscopy and laser-matter interactions. However, exact solutions to the TDSE remain…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Bizi Huang , Weizhong Fu , Ji Chen

Equation for evolution of the four-component Stokes vector in weakly anisotropic and smoothly inhomogeneous media is derived on the basis of quasi-isotropic approximation of the geometrical optics method, which provides consequent…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yu. A. Kravtsov , B. Bieg , K. Yu. Bliokh

The Duffin-Kemmer form of massless vector field (Maxwell field) is extended to the case of arbitrary pseudo-Riemannian space-time in accordance with the tetrad recipe of Tetrode-Weyl-Fock-Ivanenko. In this approach, the Maxwell equations…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-05-12 A. A. Bogush , E. M. Ovsiyuk , V. M. Red'kov

The article contains a review and new results of some mathematical models relevant to the interpretation of quantum mechanics and emulating well-known quantum gauge theories, such as scalar electrodynamics (Klein-Gordon-Maxwell…

General Physics · Physics 2022-11-08 Andrey Akhmeteli

The propagation of electromagnetic waves in general media is modeled by the time-dependent Maxwell's partial differential equations (PDEs), coupled with constitutive laws that describe the response of the media. In this work, we focus on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-11 Vrushali A. Bokil , Yingda Cheng , Yan Jiang , Fengyan Li

It is proven that in the lossless case the electrodynamics of a generic inhomogeneous possibly bianisotropic and nonreciprocal system may be described by an augmented state-vector whose time evolution is determined by a Hermitian operator.…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-10 Mario G. Silveirinha

We establish the decay of the solutions of the damped wave equations in one dimensional space for the Dirichlet, Neumann, and dynamic boundary conditions where the damping coefficient is a function of space and time. The analysis is based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Yacine Chitour , Hoai-Minh Nguyen

A proposal is made for a mathematically unambiguous treatment of evolution in the presence of closed timelike curves. In constrast to other proposals for handling the naively nonunitary evolution that is often present in such situations,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-01 Arlen Anderson

We study linear time dispersive and dissipative systems. Very often such systems are not conservative and the standard spectral theory can not be applied. We develop a mathematically consistent framework allowing (i) to constructively…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alex Figotin , Jeffrey H. Schenker

The time-evolution operator obtained from the fractional-time Schr\"{o}dinger equation (FTSE) is said to be non-unitary since it does not preserve the norm of the vector state in time. As done in the time-dependent non-Hermitian quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 D. Cius , L. Menon , M. A. F. dos Santos , A. S. M. de Castro , F. M. Andrade

We present a noncommutative extension of Quantum Cosmology and study the Kantowski-Sachs (KS) cosmological model requiring that the two scale factors of the KS metric, the coordinates of the system, and their conjugate canonical momenta do…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Catarina Bastos , Orfeu Bertolami , Nuno Costa Dias , João Nuno Prata

A generally covariant four-dimensional representation of Maxwell's electrodynamics in a generic material medium can be achieved straightforwardly in the metric-free formulation of electromagnetism. In this setup, the electromagnetic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-01 Yakov Itin

Description of evolution between spatial slices in a general spacetime suffers from a significant difficulty: the states on the slices, in a given basis, are not related by a unitary transformation. This problem, which occurs in spacetime…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-21 Steven B. Giddings , Julie Perkins

Motivated by describing time-evolutions of noncommutative worlds, I discuss symmetry-preserving evolutions of noncommutative worlds of finite dimensional representation spaces. An interesting issue in such evolutions is that there can be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-03 Naoki Sasakura

A realistic interpretation of Schroedinger and Dirac equations for density matrices is proposed, in which the difference between the position arguments of the density matrix is considered as an objective extra space dimension. "Particle"…

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