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A consistent description of interactions between classical and quantum systems is relevant to quantum measurement theory, and to calculations in quantum chemistry and quantum gravity. A solution is offered here to this longstanding problem,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Michael J. W. Hall , Marcel Reginatto

We map the quantum problem of a free bosonic field in a space-time dependent background into a classical problem. $N$ degrees of freedom of a real field in the quantum theory are mapped into $2N^2$ classical simple harmonic oscillators with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-11 Tanmay Vachaspati , George Zahariade

A one-parameter deformation of Einstein?Hilbert gravity with an inverse Riemann curvature term is derived as the classical limit of quantum gravity compatible with an accelerating universe. This result is based on the investigation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Frederic P. Schuller , Mattias N. R. Wohlfarth

It is well known that a minimal distance emerges in quantum field theories owing to the need to regularize the UV divergences. The macroscopical limit at large minimal distance, weak spatial resolution, is investigated for a self…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-22 S. Nagy , J. Polonyi

The so-called classical limit of quantum mechanics is generally studied in terms of the decoherence of the state operator that characterizes a system. This is not the only possible approach to decoherence. In previous works we have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Sebastian Fortin , Leonardo Vanni

The classical limit of non-integrable quantum systems is studied. We define non-integrable quantum systems as those which have, as their classical limit, a non-integrable classical system. In order to obtain this limit, the self-induced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Mario Castagnino , Olimpia Lombardi

This paper extends the tools of C*-algebraic strict quantization toward analyzing the classical limits of unbounded quantities in quantum theories. We introduce the approach first in the simple case of finite systems. Then we apply this…

We study an effective quantum description of the static gravitational potential for spherically symmetric systems up to the first post-Newtonian order. We start by obtaining a Lagrangian for the gravitational potential coupled to a static…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-16 Roberto Casadio , Andrea Giugno , Andrea Giusti , Michele Lenzi

Consistent dynamics which couples classical and quantum degrees of freedom exists, provided it is stochastic. This dynamics is linear in the hybrid state, completely positive and trace preserving. One application of this is to study the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Jonathan Oppenheim , Carlo Sparaciari , Barbara Šoda , Zachary Weller-Davies

The different roles and natures of spacetime appearing in a quantum field theory and in classical physics are analyzed implying that a quantum theory of gravitation is not necessarily a quantum theory of curved spacetime. Developing an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 C. Wiesendanger

We study the transition from the full quantum mechanical description of physical systems to an approximate classical stochastic one. Our main tool is the identification of the closed-time-path (CTP) generating functional of Schwinger and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Charis Anastopoulos

Here we discuss an influence of an external weak gravitational field on the gravitational self-decoherence effect with help of the stochastic extension of regularized Shr\"odinger-Newton equation in a curved background. We derive the master…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-10 V. P. Stefanov , D. S. Mogilevtsev , I. Y. Rybak , A. Stefanov

By generalizing the quantum weak measurement protocol to the case of quantum fields, we show that weak measurements probe an effective classical background field that describes the average field configuration in the spacetime region between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-24 Justin Dressel , Konstantin Y. Bliokh , Franco Nori

This work will incorporate a few related tools for addressing the conceptual difficulties arising from sewing together classical and quantum mechanics: deterministic operators, weak measurements and post-selection. Weak Measurement, based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-21 Eliahu Cohen , Yakir Aharonov

We show how the Newtonian potential between two heavy masses can be computed in simplicial quantum gravity. On the lattice we compute correlations between Wilson lines associated with the heavy particles and which are closed by the lattice…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 Herbert W. Hamber , Ruth M. Williams

In the semiclassical quantum gravity derived from the Wheeler-DeWitt equation, the energy density of a matter field loses quantum coherence due to the induced gauge potential from the parametric interaction with gravity in a non-static…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sang Pyo Kim , Kwang-Sup Soh

When gravity is sourced by a quantum system, there is tension between its role as the mediator of a fundamental interaction, which is expected to acquire nonclassical features, and its role in determining the properties of spacetime, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-18 Thomas D. Galley , Flaminia Giacomini , John H. Selby

The quantum description of time evolution in non-linear gravitational systems such as cosmological space-times is not well understood. We show, in the simplified setting of mini-superspace, that time evolution of this system can be obtained…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-02 Anne-Katherine Burns , David E. Kaplan , Tom Melia , Surjeet Rajendran

We study the weak-field limit of the static spherically symmetric solution of the locally conformally invariant theory advocated in the recent past by Mannheim and Kazanas as an alternative to Einstein's General Relativity. In contrast with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-19 O. Barabash , Yu. Shtanov

Whether gravity must be quantized remains one of the biggest open problems in fundamental physics. Classical-quantum hybrid theories have recently attracted attention as a possible framework in which gravity is treated classically yet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Masahiro Hotta , Sebastian Murk , Daniel R. Terno