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It is an old idea to realize Einstein's equations as a thermodynamical equation of state. Since then, there has been new conjectures to understand gravity from another point of view. In this way we can accept that the gravitational field is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-16 Everton M. C. Abreu , Jorge Ananias Neto , Albert C. R. Mendes , Daniel O. Souza

The recent experimental proposals by Bose et al. and Marletto et al. (BMV) outline a way to test for the quantum nature of gravity by measuring gravitationally induced differential phase accumulation over the superposed paths of two…

General Physics · Physics 2019-09-27 Thomas Andersen

Our fundamental theories, i.e., the quantum theory and general relativity, are invariant under time reversal. Only when we treat system from the point of view of thermodynamics, i.e., averaging between many subsystem components, an arrow of…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2024-10-01 Francesca Vidotto

Quantum computers have recently become available as noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices. Already these machines yield a useful environment for research on quantum systems and dynamics. Building on this opportunity, we investigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Marcel Cech , Igor Lesanovsky , Federico Carollo

As the temperature of a many-body system approaches absolute zero, thermal fluctuations of observables cease and quantum fluctuations dominate. Competition between different energies, such as kinetic energy, interactions or thermodynamic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-03-05 Xibo Zhang , Chen-Lung Hung , Shih-Kuang Tung , Cheng Chin

This article sets up a new formalism to investigate stochastic thermodynamics of out-of-equilibrium quantum systems, where stochasticity primarily comes from quantum measurement. In the absence of any bath, we define a purely quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-17 Cyril Elouard , David Herrera Marti , Maxime Clusel , Alexia Auffèves

We propose an interferometric set-up that utilizes the concept of quantum coherence to provide quantum signatures of gravity. The gravitational force comes into nontrivial play due to the existence of an extra mass in the set-up that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-07 Ahana Ghoshal , Arun Kumar Pati , Ujjwal Sen

It is a general belief that all fundamental interactions need to be quantized. However, all attempts to develop a quantum theory of gravity presented various problems, leading to a recent active debate about how to probe its quantum nature.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-25 Salvatore M. Giampaolo , Tommaso Macrì

This letter extends previous findings on the modified Schr\"odinger evolution inspired by quantum gravity phenomenology. By establishing a connection between this approach and fractional quantum mechanics, we provide insights into a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-15 Gislaine Varão , Iarley P. Lobo , Valdir B. Bezerra

We propose a method for demonstrating equivalences beyond the saddlepoint approximation between quantities in quantum gravity that are defined by the Euclidean path integral, without assumptions about holographic duality. The method…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-24 Vijay Balasubramanian , Tom Yildirim

For general quantum systems the power expansion of the Gibbs potential and consequently the power expansion of the self energy is derived in terms of the interaction strength. Employing a generalization of the projector technique a compact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-18 T. Plefka

The thermodynamics of a self-gravitating gas cloud of particles interacting only via their gravitational potential is an interesting problem with peculiarities arising due to the long-ranged nature of the gravitational interaction. Based on…

General Physics · Physics 2019-01-25 Christine Gruber

The quantum gravity is formulated based on gauge principle. The model discussed in this paper has local gravitational gauge symmetry and gravitational field is represented by gauge potential. A preliminary study on gravitational gauge group…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-17 Ning Wu

An explicit dynamical model for non relativistic quantum mechanics with an effective gravitational interaction is proposed, which, as being well defined, allows in principle for the evaluation of every physical quantity. Its non unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sergio De Filippo

While a wide variety of astrophysical and cosmological phenomena suggest the presence of Dark Matter, all evidence remains via its gravitational effect on the known matter. As such, it is conceivable that this evidence could be explained by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-14 Ankit Kumar , Yen-Kheng Lim , P. Arumugam , Tom Zlosnik , Tomasz Paterek

We study the vortex dynamics of a quantum degenerate Bose gas through the intensity fluctuations of the interference from particles extracted at two different positions. It is shown numerically with classical field simulations that an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-15 Michiel Wouters

Coupling any interacting quantum mechanical system to gravity in one (time) dimension requires the cosmological constant to belong to the matter energy spectrum and thus to be quantised, even though the gravity sector is free of any quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Jan Govaerts

Gas-liquid condensation (GLC) in an attractive Bose gas is studied on the basis of statistical mechanics. Using some results in combinatorial mathematics, the following are derived: (1) With decreasing temperature, the Bose-statistical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-09 Shun-ichiro Koh

We discuss the quantum mechanical description of a gravitational wave interacting with a cavity electromagnetic field. Quantum fluctuations of the gravitational vacuum induce squeezing in the optical field. Moreover, this squeezing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 Thiago Guerreiro

Whether gravity is quantized remains an open question. To shed light on this problem, various Gedankenexperiments have been proposed. One popular example is an interference experiment with a massive system that interacts gravitationally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-03 Erik Rydving , Erik Aurell , Igor Pikovski