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The application of geometry to physics has provided us with new insightful information about many physical theories such as classical mechanics, general relativity, and quantum geometry (quantum gravity). The geometry also plays an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Hoshang Heydari

Phase space quasi-probability functions provide powerful representations of quantum states and operators, as well as criteria for assessing quantum computational resources. In discrete, odd-dimensional systems (qudits), protocols involving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-08 Eloi Descamps , Astghik Saharyan , Arne Keller , Pérola Milman

We derive a two-dimensional symplectic map for particle motion at the plasma edge by modeling the electrostatic potential as a superposition of integer spatial harmonics with relative phase shift, then reduce it to a two-wave model to study…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 L. F. B. Souza , Y. Elskens , R. Egydio de Carvalho , I. L. Caldas

In this thesis we revise the concept of phase space in modern physics and devise a way to explicitly incorporate physical dimension into geometric mechanics. A historical account of metrology and phase space is given to illustrate the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-21 Carlos Zapata-Carratala

We study equivariant localization formulas for phase space path integrals when the phase space is a multiply connected compact Riemann surface. We consider the Hamiltonian systems to which the localization formulas are applicable and show…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Gordon W. Semenoff , Richard J. Szabo

The phase space of a relativistic system can be identified with the future tube of complexified Minkowski space. As well as a complex structure and a symplectic structure, the future tube, seen as an eight-dimensional real manifold, is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Dorje C. Brody , Lane P. Hughston

In spacetime physics, we frequently need to consider a set of all spaces (`universes') as a whole. In particular, the concept of `closeness' between spaces is essential. However, there has been no established mathematical theory so far…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Masafumi Seriu

This paper deals with a hyperbolic system of two nonlinear conservation laws, where the phase space contains two contact manifolds. The governing equations are modelling bidisperse suspensions, which consist of two types of small particles…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-01-27 Stefan Berres , Pablo Castañeda

Aiming towards a geometric description of quantum theory, we study the coherent states-induced metric on the phase space, which provides a geometric formulation of the Heisenberg uncertainty relations (both the position-momentum and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Charis Anastopoulos , Ntina Savvidou

Metric spaces are characterized by distances between pairs of elements. Systems that are physically similar are expected to present smaller distances (between their densities, wave functions and potentials) than systems that present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-18 T. de Picoli , I. D' Amico , V. V. França

The paper develop the alternative formulation of quantum mechanics known as the phase space quantum mechanics or deformation quantization. It is shown that the quantization naturally arises as an appropriate deformation of the classical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-27 Maciej Blaszak , Ziemowit Domanski

An operator-valued quantum phase space formula is constructed. The phase space formula of Quantum Mechanics provides a natural link between first and second quantization, thus contributing to the understanding of quantization problem. By…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-03-16 Dong-Sheng Wang

The original Wigner function provides a way of representing in phase space the quantum states of systems with continuous degrees of freedom. Wigner functions have also been developed for discrete quantum systems, one popular version being…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kathleen S. Gibbons , Matthew J. Hoffman , William K. Wootters

We investigate the coupled dynamics of symmetry breaking and phase separation during quenches across the critical point in a first-order phase transition. Based on the Einstein-Maxwell-scalar theory, we construct a holographic superfluid…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-02 Zi-Qiang Zhao , Zhang-Yu Nie , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

While tremendous research has revealed that symmetry enriches topological phases of matter, more general principles that protect topological phases have yet to be explored. In this Letter, we elucidate the roles of subspaces in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Kenji Shimomura , Ryo Takami , Daichi Nakamura , Masatoshi Sato

The phase-space of a simple synchronization model is thoroughly investigated. The model considers two-mode stochastic oscillators, coupled through a pulse-like interaction controlled by simple optimization rules. A complex phase space is…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2020-12-03 Szabolcs Horvát , Zoltán Néda

Perhaps the simplest approach to constructing models with sub-dimensional particles or fractons is to require the conservation of dipole or higher multipole moments. We generalize this approach to allow for moments in phase space and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-31 Ylias Sadki , Abhishodh Prakash , S. L. Sondhi , Daniel P. Arovas

We define a complex relativistic phase space which is the space $\mathbb{C}^4$ equipped with the Minkowski metric and with a geometric tri-product on it. The geometric tri-product is similar to the triple product of the bounded symmetric…

General Physics · Physics 2009-01-09 Yaakov Friedman

In physics, experiments ultimately inform us as to what constitutes a good theoretical model of any physical concept: physical space should be no exception. The best picture of physical space in Newtonian physics is given by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-14 Chuan Sheng Chew , Otto C. W. Kong , Jason Payne

We show that compact Riemannian manifolds, regarded as metric spaces with their global geodesic distance, cannot contain a number of rigid structures such as (a) arbitrarily large regular simplices or (b) arbitrarily long sequences of…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-01-06 Alexandru Chirvasitu