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In this report we discuss three aspects: 1) Semiclassical gravity theory (SCG): 4 levels of theories describing the interaction of quantum matter with classical gravity; 2) Alternative Quantum Theories: Discerning those which are derivable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 B. L. Hu

We consider a quantum system of non-interacting fermions at temperature T, in the framework of linear response theory. We show that semiclassical theory is an appropriate framework to describe some of their thermodynamic properties, in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Monique Combescure , Didier Robert

Semiclassical gravity (SG) aims to describe the semiclassical regime of quantum gravity. In SG quantum fields curve classical spacetime in an effective way through the expectation value of their stress-energy tensor, while propagating in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Benito A. Juárez-Aubry

Superposed coherent states are central to quantum technologies, yet their reliable identification remains a challenge, especially in noisy or resource-constrained settings. We introduce a novel, directly measurable criterion for detecting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Šimon Bräuer , Jan Provazník , Vojtěch Kala , Petr Marek

In this article we further investigate the construction of graph coherent states, first introduced in [1], in the context of loop quantum gravity. We specifically investigate the possibility of defining a family of graph coherent states…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-01 Mehdi Assanioussi

A novel semiclassical gravity model proposed by Oppenheim et al., that consistently describes interactions between quantum systems and a classical gravitational field, has recently attracted considerable attention. However, the limitations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-01 Tomoya Hirotani , Akira Matsumura

Semi-classical approaches approximate fully quantum descriptions with partially classical ones. Here we use a toy model to highlight the failings of the standard mean-field semi-classical approach, and show how including environmental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 Isaac Layton

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

In this contribution we deal with several issues one encounters when trying to couple quantum matter to classical gravitational fields. We start with a general background discussion and then move on to two more technical sections. In the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-13 Domenico Giulini , André Großardt , Philip K. Schwartz

We study the ground state energy and ground states of systems coupling non-relativistic quantum particles and force-carrying Bose fields, such as radiation, in the quasi-classical approximation. The latter is very useful whenever the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Michele Correggi , Marco Falconi , Marco Olivieri

In the framework of semiclassical theory the universal properties of quantum systems with classically chaotic dynamics can be accounted for through correlations between partner periodic orbits with small action differences. So far, however,…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-02-17 Boris Gutkin , Vladimir Osipov

We discuss some subtleties which arise in the semiclassical approximation to quantum gravity. We show that integrability conditions prevent the existence of Tomonaga-Schwinger time functions on the space of three-metrics but admit them on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 D. Giulini , C. Kiefer

As part of a wider study of coherent states in (loop) quantum gravity, we introduce a modification to the standard construction, based on the recently introduced (non-commutative) flux representation. The resulting quantum states have some…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Daniele Oriti , Roberto Pereira , Lorenzo Sindoni

We develop a semiclassical theory of modified gravity with nontrivial spacetime torsion. In particular, we show that the semiclassical treatment can be axiomatized in the case of Einstein--Cartan theory with a nonminimally coupled, free…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-26 R. Morales-Cabrera , Y. Bonder

The effort to discover a quantum theory of gravity is motivated by the need to reconcile the incompatibility between quantum theory and general relativity. Here, we present an alternative approach by constructing a consistent theory of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-28 Jonathan Oppenheim

We construct normalizable, semi-classical states for the previously proposed model of quantum gravity which is formulated as a spectral triple over holonomy loops. The semi-classical limit of the spectral triple gives the Dirac Hamiltonian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-02 Johannes Aastrup , Jesper M. Grimstrup , Mario Paschke , Ryszard Nest

The present paper is the companion of [1] in which we proposed a scheme that tries to derive the Quantum Field Theory (QFT) on Curved Spacetimes (CST) limit from background independent Quantum General Relativity (QGR). The constructions of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Hanno Sahlmann , Thomas Thiemann

This paper is a contribution to the development of a framework, to be used in the context of semiclassical canonical quantum gravity, in which to frame questions about the correspondence between discrete spacetime structures at "quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Luca Bombelli , Alejandro Corichi , Oliver Winkler

An attempt is made to go beyond the standard semi-classical approximation for gravity in the Born-Oppenheimer decomposition of the wave-function in minisuperspace. New terms are included which correspond to quantum gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Roberto Casadio

The entropy of apparent horizons is derived using coherent states or semiclassical states in quantum gravity. The leading term is proportional to area for large horizons, and the correction terms differ according to the details of the graph…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Arundhati Dasgupta