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The recent high-energy QCD equations including the effects of fluctuations are solved numerically. We discuss their asymptotic properties and compare them with the corresponding behaviour without fluctuations as well as with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Soyez

We calculate the effects of quantum fluctuations of a scalar field in the "ballpoint pen" cosmic string geometry. Using the approach to renormalization established previously for the energy density in two space dimensions, we extend those…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-02 Noah Graham

Vacuum quantum fluctuations are an inescapable and fundamental feature of modern physics. By integrating cavity-enhanced or surface-modified vacuum quantum fluctuations with low-dimensional materials, a new paradigm-vacuumronics-emerges,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Qing-Dong Jiang

We consider vacuum fluctuations of the quantum electromagnetic field in the presence of an infinite and perfectly conducting plate. We evaluate how the change of vacuum fluctuations due to the plate modifies the Casimir-Polder potential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. Spagnolo , R. Passante , L. Rizzuto

We investigate the influence of the vacuum fluctuations of a background electric field over a charged test particle in the presence of a perfectly reflecting flat wall. A switching function connecting different stages of the system is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-30 V. A. De Lorenci , C. C. H. Ribeiro , M. M. Silva

It has been argued since 1948, when it was experimentally demonstrated, that the Casimir effect-where two non-charged conducting plates have a weak but measurable force on each other dependent on the inverse fourth power of the distance…

General Physics · Physics 2022-06-13 Gerald E. Marsh

We analyze the expectation value of the energy-momentum tensor and its fluctuations in quantum field theory on curved spacetimes $\langle T_{ab} \rangle$. A generally accepeted condition for the conceptual consistency of semiclassical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-22 Alejandro Perez , Daniel Sudarsky

In this paper we are discussing the question how a continuous quantum system can be simulated by mean field fluctuations of a finite number of qubits. On the kinematical side this leads to a convergence result which states that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Zoltan Kadar , Michael Keyl , Geza Toth , Zoltan Zimboras

Superconducting qubits are an attractive platform for quantum computing since they have demonstrated high-fidelity quantum gates and extensibility to modest system sizes. Nonetheless, an outstanding challenge is stabilizing their…

We present an extension of the semiclassical Einstein equations which couples n-point correlation functions of a stochastic Einstein tensor to the n-point functions of the quantum stress-energy tensor. We apply this extension to calculate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-10 Nicola Pinamonti , Daniel Siemssen

In the thermodynamics of nanoscopic systems the relation between classical and quantum mechanical description is of particular importance. To scrutinize this correspondence we study an anharmonic oscillator driven by a periodic external…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Mattes Heerwagen , Andreas Engel

At non-zero temperature classical systems exhibit statistical fluctuations of thermodynamic quantities arising from the variation of the system's initial conditions and its interaction with the environment. The fluctuating work, for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Rui Sampaio , Samu Suomela , Tapio Ala-Nissila , Janet Anders , Thomas Philbin

We study quantum Ising spins placed on small-world networks. A simple model is considered in which the coupling between any given pair of spins is a nonzero constant if they are linked in the small-world network and zero otherwise. By…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-08-26 Hangmo Yi , Mahn-Soo Choi

We discuss the effect of quantum stress tensor fluctuations in deSitter spacetime upon the expansion of a congruence of timelike geodesics. We treat a model in which the expansion fluctuations begin on a given hypersurface in deSitter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Chun-Hsien Wu , Kin-Wang Ng , L. H. Ford

In this proceeding, we study the evolution of energy density fluctuations in the presence of a static and uniform magnetic field. By numerically solving the relativistic Boltzmann-Vlasov equation within the relaxation time approximation and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-11-06 Shreyansh S. Dave , Subrata Pal

We discuss a limit for sensitivity of length measurements which is due to the effect of vacuum fluctuations of gravitational field. This limit is associated with irreducible quantum fluctuations of geodesic distances and it is characterized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Marc-Thierry Jaekel , Serge Reynaud

We study the fluctuations in the vacuum zero point energy associated to quantum fields and their statistical distributions during inflation. It is shown that the perturbations in the vacuum zero point energy have large amplitudes which are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-20 Hassan Firouzjahi

We study a novel set of gravitational field configurations, called "dipolar zero modes", which give an exactly null contribution to the Einstein action and are thus candidates to become large fluctuations in the quantized theory. They are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 G. Modanese

We study the simultaneous influence of boundary conditions and external fields on quantum fluctuations by considering vacuum zero-point energies for quantum fields in the presence of a magnetic fluxon confined by a bag, circular and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 S. Leseduarte , August Romeo

The probability density function of single-point velocity fluctuations in turbulence is studied systematically using Fourier coefficients in the energy-containing range. In ideal turbulence where energy-containing motions are random and…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Mouri , M. Takaoka , A. Hori , Y. Kawashima