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We define the idea of {\it real path quantum theory}, a realist generalisation of quantum theory in which it is postulated that the configuration space path actually followed by a closed quantum system is probabilistically chosen. This is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Adrian Kent

In this paper we construct a path integral formulation of quantum mechanics on noncommutative phase-space. We first map the system to an equivalent system on the noncommutative plane. Then by applying the formalism of representing a quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-02 Sunandan Gangopadhyay , Aslam Halder

A gas of interacting particles is a paradigmatic example of chaotic systems. It is shown here that even if all but one particle are fixed in generic positions, the excited states of the moving particle are chaotic. They are characterized by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 Vladimir A. Yurovsky

We study binary mixtures of small active and big passive athermal particles interacting via soft repulsive forces on a frictional substrate. Athermal self propelled particles are known to phase separate into a dense aggregate and a dilute…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-07-05 Pritha Dolai , Aditi Simha , Shradha Mishra

The dynamics of an active walker in a harmonic potential is studied experimentally, numerically and theoretically. At odds with usual models of self-propelled particles, we identify two dynamical states for which the particle condensates at…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-20 Olivier Dauchot , Vincent Démery

Active particles may undergo phase separation when interactions oppose self-propulsion, in the absence of any cohesive forces. The corresponding Motility-Induced Phase Separation (MIPS) is arguably the simplest non-trivial collective…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-12-19 Jérémy O'Byrne , Alexandre Solon , Julien Tailleur , Yongfeng Zhao

In this paper a new approach is proposed to quantize mechanical systems whose equations of motion can not be put into Hamiltonian form. This approach is based on a new type of variational principle, which is adopted to a describe a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-04-04 Tianshu Luo , Yimu Guo

In this paper we pose two fundamental ideas on the motion of an elementary particle supporting the internal "spin motion" or $\textit{Zitterbewegung}$ and a particle as concentrated energy. First, the particle moves randomly in a limited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-05 Muhamad Darwis Umar

Quantum mechanical phase space path integrals are re-examined with regard to the physical interpretation of the phase space variables involved. It is demonstrated that the traditional phase space path integral implies a meaning for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 John R. Klauder

Active matter denotes a system of particles immersed in an external environment, from which the particles extract energy continuously in order to perform directed motion. Extending the paradigm of active matter to a quantum framework…

Starting from the Dirac equation in external electromagnetic and torsion fields we derive a path integral representation for the corresponding propagator. An effective action, which appears in the representation, is interpreted as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-28 Bodo Geyer , Dmitry Gitman , Ilya Shapiro

Quantum mechanics states that a particle emitted at point (x_1,t_1) and detected at point (x_2,t_2) does not travel along a definite path between the two points. This conclusion arises essentially from the analysis of the two-slit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Galvan

The Free-Energy-Principle (FEP) is an influential and controversial theory which postulates a deep and powerful connection between the stochastic thermodynamics of self-organization and learning through variational inference. Specifically,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Beren Millidge , Anil Seth , Christopher L Buckley

The existence of an observer independent minimum length scale can lead to the modification of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle to the generalized uncertainty principle. This in turn would be responsible for the modification of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-15 Sunandan Gangopadhyay , Sukanta Bhattacharyya

Based on the novel view that a micro-entity could be considered as a particle associated with a field partaking of the energy of particle which are both described by deterministic causal equations of motion, we examine the success of our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-07 Afshin Shafiee , Abouzar Massoudi , Mohammad Bahrami

This is an attempt to address diffusion phenomena from the point of view of information theory. We imagine a regular hamiltonian system under the random perturbation of thermal (molecular) noise and chaotic instability. The irregularity of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Qiuping A. Wang

The s=1/2 Ising chain with uniform nearest-neighbor and next-nearest-neighbor coupling is used to construct a system of floating particles characterized by motifs of up to six consecutive local spins. The spin couplings cause the assembly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-04-27 Ping Lu , Dan Liu , Gerhard Müller , Michael Karbach

We study a system of interacting particles in a periodically moving external potential, within the simplest possible description of paradigmatic symmetric exclusion process on a ring. The model describes diffusion of hardcore particles…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-17 Rakesh Chatterjee , Sakuntala Chatterjee , Punyabrata Pradhan , S. S. Manna

Path integrals represent a powerful route to quantization: they calculate probabilities by summing over classical configurations of variables such as fields, assigning each configuration a phase equal to the action of that configuration.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-13 Seth Lloyd , Olaf Dreyer

We consider model of a complex particle that consists of a rigid shell and a nucleus with spatial asymmetric interaction. The particle's dynamics with the nucleus driven by a periodic excitation is considered. It is shown that…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergey Denisov