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We develop a semiclassical framework for studying quantum particles constrained to curved surfaces using the momentous quantum mechanics formalism, which extends classical phase-space to include quantum fluctuation variables (moments). In a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Guillermo Chacon-Acosta , H. Hernandez-Hernandez , J. Ruvalcaba-Rascon

We derive semiclassical trace formulae including Gutzwiller's trace formula using coherent states. This formulation has several advantages over the usual coordinate-space formulation. Using a coherent-state basis makes it immediately…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-27 B. Mehlig , M. Wilkinson

Semi-classical gravity is an approximation to quantum gravity where gravity is treated classically and matter quantum mechanically. Matter is described by quantum field theory on curved space-time, whereas gravity is described by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-07 Ward Struyve

We study the semiclassical propagation of coherent states in $d$ dimensions, which in general involves complex classical dynamics. Several simple approximations are derived that depend only on real classical trajectories, among them the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-04 M. Novaes , M. A. M. de Aguiar

A simple model is constructed which allows to compute modified dispersion relations with effects from loop quantum gravity. Different quantization choices can be realized and their effects on the order of corrections studied explicitly. A…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Martin Bojowald , Hugo A. Morales-Tecotl , Hanno Sahlmann

We study a general bipartite quantum system consisting of a spin interacting with a bosonic field, with the initial state prepared as the product of a spin coherent state and a canonical coherent state. Our goal is to develop a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Matheus V. Scherer , Lea F. Santos , Alexandre D. Ribeiro

In this paper we describe an approach to construct semiclassical partition functions in gravity which are complete in the sense that they contain a complete description of the differentiable structures of the underlying 4-manifold. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Christopher L. Duston

We focus on two types of coherent states, the coherent states of multi graviton states and the coherent states of giant graviton states, in the context of gauge/gravity correspondence. We conveniently use a phase shift operator and its…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-05 Hai Lin , Yuwei Zhu

We investigate the utility of non classical states of simple harmonic oscillators (a superposition of coherent states) for sensitive force detection. We find that like squeezed states a superposition of coherent states allows the detection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kae Nemoto , W. J. Munro , G. J. Milburn , S. L. Braunstein

Looking for a quantum-mechanical implementation of duality, we formulate a relation between coherent states and complex-differentiable structures on classical phase space ${\cal C}$. A necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 J. M. Isidro

Matrix configurations coming from matrix models comprise many important aspects of modern physics. They represent special quantum spaces and are thus strongly related to noncommutative geometry. In order to establish a semiclassical limit…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-01 Laura Olivia Felder

We show that a semi-classical quantum field theory comes with a versal family with the property that the corresponding partition function generates all path integrals and satisfies a system of 2nd order differential equations determined by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Jae-Suk Park

We consider $N$ clones of the quantized world, interacting with each other via quantum gravity, coupled by the downscaled Newton constant $G/N$. In the limit $N\rightarrow\infty$, we obtain the semiclassical Einstein equation for every…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-28 Lajos Diósi

A quantitative test for the validity of the semi-classical approximation in gravity is given. The criterion proposed is that solutions to the semi-classical Einstein equations should be stable to linearized perturbations, in the sense that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Paul R. Anderson , Carmen Molina-Paris , Emil Mottola

Semiclassical Hamiltonian field theory is investigated from the axiomatic point of view. A notion of a semiclassical state is introduced. An "elementary" semiclassical state is specified by a set of classical field configuration and quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Oleg Shvedov

We construct a field theory to describe energy averaged quantum statistical properties of systems which are chaotic in their classical limit. An expression for the generating function of general statistical correlators is presented in the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 A. V. Andreev , B. D. Simons , O. Agam , B. L. Altshuler

Within the framework of Quantum Reduced Loop Gravity we quantize the Hamiltonian for a gauge vector field. The regularization can be performed using tools analogous to the ones adopted in full Loop Quantum Gravity, while the matrix elements…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-07 Jakub Bilski , Emanuele Alesci , Francesco Cianfrani , Pietro Donà , Antonino Marciano

We address the quantum-classical correspondence for chaotic systems with a crossover between symmetry classes. We consider the energy level statistics of a classically chaotic system in a weak magnetic field. The generating function of…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-13 Keiji Saito , Taro Nagao , Sebastian Muller , Petr Braun

Coherent states provide a natural connection of quantum systems to their classical limit and are employed in various fields of physics. Here we derive general systematic expansions, with respect to quantum parameters, of expectation values…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-13 John Schliemann

The gravity-scalar field system in spherical symmetry provides a natural setting for exploring gravitational collapse and its aftermath in quantum gravity. In a canonical approach, we give constructions of the Hamiltonian operator, and of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-26 Viqar Husain , Daniel R. Terno