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Relativistic microcausality is the statement that local field operators commute outside the light-cone. This condition is known to break down in low-energy effective theories, such as $P(X)$ models with a derivative interaction term of the…

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We derive equations of motion for dissipative spin hydrodynamics from kinetic theory up to first order in a gradient expansion. Choosing a specific form of the matching conditions, relating the change in the spin potential to the spin…

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The deformation of the relativistic dispersion relation caused by noncommutative (NC) Quantum Mechanics (QM) is studied using the extended phase-space formalism. The introduction of the additional commutation relations induces Lorentz…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 P. Leal , O. Bertolami

The first-order textbook formulations of relativistic viscous hydrodynamics are unstable and acausal. These shortcomings may be rectified by using effective theories which maintain stability and causality. In this dissertation, which is…

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This paper is concerned with pulsating waves for multi-dimensional reaction-diffusion equations in spatially periodic media. First, assuming the existence of pulsating waves connecting two linearly stable steady states, we study the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Weiwei Ding , Zhanghua Liang , Wenfeng Liu

Locality imposes stringent constraints on the spreading of information in nonrelativistic quantum systems, which is reminiscent of a "light-cone," a casual structure arising in their relativistic counterparts. Long-range interactions can…

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Relativity opens the door to a counter-intuitive fact: a state can be stable to perturbations in one frame of reference, and unstable in another one. For this reason, the job of testing the stability of states that are not Lorentz-invariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-05 Lorenzo Gavassino

In this work, the poles and the resulting dispersion spectra from the relativistic kinetic equation have been analyzed with the help of a proposed collision kernel that conserves both the energy-momentum tensor and particle current by…

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We study existence and stability of travelling waves for nonlinear convection diffusion equations in the 1-D Euclidean space. The diffusion coefficient depends on the gradient in analogy with the p-Laplacian and may be degenerate.…

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We consider aggregation-diffusion equations with merely bounded nonlocal interaction potential $K$. We are interested in establishing their well-posedness theory when the nonlocal interaction potential $K$ is neither differentiable nor…

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In this paper, we focus on the existence of propagation fronts, solutions to non-local dispersion reaction models. Our aim is to provide a unified proof of this existence in a very broad framework using simple real analysis tools. In…

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It is now well-known that vacuum polarisation in QED can lead to superluminal low-frequency phase velocities for photons propagating in curved spacetimes. In a series of papers, we have shown that this quantum phenomenon is dispersive and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-06-08 Timothy J. Hollowood , Graham M. Shore

The recently proposed connection between the Lorentz invariance of stability and the speed of signal propagation has been tested for a first-order relativistic dissipative hydrodynamic theory. The fact that the stability situation in…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-02-15 Rajesh Biswas , Sukanya Mitra , Victor Roy

Based on the modelling of quantum systems with the aid of (classical) non-equilibrium thermodynamics, both the emergence and the collapse of the superposition principle are understood within one and the same framework. Both are shown to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-31 Gerhard Groessing , Siegfried Fussy , Johannes Mesa Pascasio , Herbert Schwabl

We investigate the propagation of electromagnetic waves in resistive pair plasmas using a onefluid theory derived from the relativistic two-fluid equations. When the resistivity normalized by the electron/positron inertia variable exceeds a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Shinji Koide

The experimental violation of Bell inequalities using spacelike separated measurements precludes the explanation of quantum correlations through causal influences propagating at subluminal speed. Yet, any such experimental violation could…

It is a basic principle that an effect cannot come before the cause. Dispersive relations that follow from this fundamental fact have proven to be an indispensable tool in physics and engineering. They are most powerful in the domain of…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-19 Dusan Lorenc , Zhanybek Alpichshev

This pedagogical paper presents a comprehensive framework for interpreting dispersion relations across fundamental physical systems. We adopt a novel approach that starts from the mathematical form $\omega(\mathbf{k})$ and systematically…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Renato Vieira dos Santos

It has been known for a long time that vacuum polarization in QED leads to a superluminal low-frequency phase velocity for light propagating in curved spacetime. Assuming the validity of the Kramers-Kronig dispersion relation, this would…

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