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We show that a nonlinear Schr\"odinger wave equation can reproduce all the features of linear quantum mechanics. This nonlinear wave equation is obtained by exploring, in a uniform language, the transition from fully classical theory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-20 Chris D. Richardson , Peter Schlagheck , John Martin , Nicolas Vandewalle , Thierry Bastin

Semiclassical gravity, in which a classical spacetime is sourced by the quantum expectation value of the stress-energy tensor, is a standard framework for describing the gravitational interaction of quantum matter. In the nonrelativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-23 Hollis Williams

The Schr\"odinger equation is universally accepted due to its excellent predictions aligning with observed results within its defined conditions. Nevertheless, it does not seem to possess the simplicity of fundamental laws, such as Newton's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-20 Xuefeng Bao

The Schrodinger-Newton equation has frequently been studied as a nonlinear modification of the Schrodinger equation incorporating gravitational self-interaction. However, there is no evidence yet as to whether nature actually behaves this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-22 Sourav Kesharee Sahoo , Ashutosh Dash , Radhika Vathsan , Tabish Qureshi

Based on the assumption that the standard Schr\"odinger equation becomes gravitationally modified for massive macroscopic objects, two independent proposals has survived from the nineteen-eighties. The Schr\"odinger--Newton equation (1984)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Lajos Diósi

We present a detailed derivation of a model to study effects of self-gravitation from semi-classical gravity, described by the Schr\"odinger-Newton equation, employing spin superposition states in inhomogeneous magnetic fields, as proposed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-16 André Großardt

In this work, we study the wave equations in 2D Euclidian space for a new non-central potential consisting of a Kratzer term and a dipole term. For Schrodinger equation, we obtain the analytical expressions of the energies and the wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 M. Heddar , M. Moumni , M. Falek

In the first quarter of the 20th century, physicists were not aware of the existence of classical electromagnetic zero-point radiation nor of the importance of special relativity. Inclusion of these aspects allows classical electron theory…

Classical Physics · Physics 2022-01-11 Timothy H. Boyer

The Schr\"odinger-Newton equation, a theoretical framework connecting quantum mechanics with classical gravity, predicts that gravity may induce measurable deviations in low-frequency mechanical systems-an intriguing hypothesis at the…

The molecular Schr\"odinger equation is rewritten in terms of non-unitary equations of motion for the nuclei (or electrons) that depend parametrically on the configuration of an ensemble of generally defined electronic (or nuclear)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-18 Guillermo Albareda , Heiko Appel , Ignacio Franco , Ali Abedi , Angel Rubio

Emergence of classicality from quantum mechanics, a hotly debated topic, has had no satisfactory resolution so far. Various approaches including decoherence and gravitational interactions have been suggested. In the present work, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-08 Sourav Kesharee Sahoo , Radhika Vathsan , Tabish Qureshi

We use multiscale perturbation theory in conjunction with the inverse scattering transform to study the interaction of a number of solitons of the cubic nonlinear Schroedinger equation under the influence of a small correction to the…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 James A. Besley , Peter D. Miller , Nail N. Akhmediev

We solve the Schr\"odinger-Newton problem of Newtonian gravity coupled to a nonrelativistic scalar particle for solutions with axial symmetry. The gravitational potential is driven by a mass density assumed to be proportional to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-30 A. Flores , C. Stegner , S. S. Chabysheva , J. R. Hiller

There are known problems of Lorentz-Dirac equation for moving with acceleration charged particle in classical electrodynamics. The model of extended in one dimension particle is proposed and shown that electromagnetic self-interaction can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander A. Vlasov

Schrodinger's equation predicts something very peculiar about the electron in the Hydrogen atom: its total energy must be equal to zero. Unfortunately, an analysis of a zero-energy wavefunction for the electron in the Hydrogen atom has not…

General Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Ezzat G. Bakhoum

An approach to the quantization of gravity in the presence matter is examined which starts from the classical Einstein-Hilbert action and matter approximated by "point" particles minimally coupled to the metric. Upon quantization, the…

General Physics · Physics 2022-05-24 Matej Pavšič

By considering the Higgs mechanism in the framework of a parity-preserving Planar Quantum Electrodynamics, one shows that an attractive electron-electron interaction may come out. The e-e interaction potential emerges as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-27 H. Belich , O. M. Del Cima , M. M. Ferreira, , J. A. Helayel-Neto

We set up the classical wave equation for a particle formed of an oscillatory zero-rest-mass charge together with its resulting electromagnetic waves, traveling in a potential field $V$ in a susceptible vacuum. The waves are…

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. X. Zheng-Johansson , P-I. Johansson

We relax the usual diagonal constraint on the matrix representation of the eigenvalue wave equation by allowing it to be tridiagonal. This results in a larger solution space that incorporates an exact analytic solution for the non-central…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. D. Alhaidari

Modern physics makes wide use of the equation for which only a potential solution is sought. The probability that this equation has a nonpotential solution is omitted from consideration automatically without any explanation. In this paper,…

General Physics · Physics 2011-06-21 Alexander Ivanchin