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The scale of quantum mechanical effects in matter is set by Planck's constant, $\hbar$. This represents the quantisation scale for material objects. In this article, we present a simple argument why the quantisation scale for space, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-17 Matthew J. Lake

The physical phase space in gauge systems is studied. Effects caused by a non-Euclidean geometry of the physical phase space in quantum gauge models are described in the operator and path integral formalisms. The projection on the Dirac…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Sergei V. Shabanov

Quantum correlations represent a fundamental tool for studies ranging from basic science to quantum technologies. Different non-classical correlations have been identified and studied, as entanglement and discord. In this Paper we explore…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-15 E. Moreva , M. Gramegna , M. A. Yurischev

Extending hyperuniformity from classical to quantum fluctuations in electron systems yields a framework that identifies quantum phase transitions and reveals underlying gap structures through the quantum weight. We study long-wavelength…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-01-27 Junmo Jeon , Shiro Sakai

The unusual properties of two-dimensional electron systems that give rise to the quantum Hall effect have prompted the development of new microscopic models for electrical conduction. The bulk properties of the quantum Hall effect have also…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-04-12 S. H. Tessmer , P. I. Glicofridis , R. C. Ashoori , L. S. Levitov , M. R. Melloch

We investigate the geometric picture of the level surfaces of quantum entanglement and geometric measure of quantum discord (GMQD) of a class of X-states, respectively. This pictorial approach provides us a direct understanding of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-03 Wei Song , Long-Bao Yu , Ping Dong , Da-Chuang Li , Ming Yang , Zhuo-Liang Cao

We study how topological crystalline defects--dislocations--reshape the real-space quantum geometric tensor and act as tunable sources of quantum geometry. We show that dislocations strongly enhance the quantum metric, establishing a direct…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Carlos Saji , Roberto E. Troncoso

The relativistic quantum phase space (QPS) formalism extends classical phase space by incorporating both mean values and variance-covariance matrices of quantum states, thereby providing a unified setting where the uncertainty principle and…

Quantum geometry strongly impacts physical properties in flat-band systems. We consider its role in bosonic condensation and superfluidity on flat bands, and show that the superfluid weight has an important contribution proportional to the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-03-11 Kukka-Emilia Huhtinen , Matteo Dürrnagel , Valerio Peri , Sebastian D. Huber

Quantum coherence is an important quantum resource and it is intimately related to various research fields. The geometric coherence is a coherence measure both operationally and geometrically. We study the trade-off relation of geometric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-25 Bingyu Hu , Ming-Jing Zhao

In this paper we give a survey of some models of the integer and fractional quantum Hall effect based on noncommutative geometry. We begin by recalling some classical geometry of electrons in solids and the passage to noncommutative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Matilde Marcolli , Varghese Mathai

Results that illuminate the physical interpretation of states of nonperturbative quantum gravity are obtained using the recently introduced loop variables. It is shown that: i) While local operators such as the metric at a point may not be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-20 Abhay Ashtekar , Carlo Rovelli , Lee Smolin

Quantum materials are driving a technology revolution in sensing, communication, and computing, while simultaneously testing many core theories of the past century. Materials such as topological insulators, complex oxides, quantum dots,…

Quantum physics rules the dynamics of small objects as they interact over microscopic length scales. Nevertheless, quantum correlations involving macroscopic distances can be observed between entangled photons as well as in atomic gases and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Cruz I. Velasco , Valerio Di Giulio , F. Javier García de Abajo

One central question in quantum gravity is to understand how and why predictions from semiclassical gravity can break down in regimes with low spacetime curvature. One diagnostic of such a breakdown is that states which are orthonormal at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-30 John Preskill , Mykhaylo Usatyuk , Shreya Vardhan

Over the last two years, the canonical approach to quantum gravity based on connections and triads has been put on a firm mathematical footing through the development and application of a new functional calculus on the space of gauge…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 Abhay Ashtekar

In classical physics, a single measurement can in principle reveal the state of a system. However, quantum theory permits numerous non-equivalent measurements on a physical system, each providing only limited information about the state.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-01 Yang Yu , Philip Goyal

This is an expository article aiming to introduce the reader to the underlying mathematics and geometry of quantum error correction. Information stored on quantum particles is subject to noise and interference from the environment. Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-10 Simeon Ball , Aina Centelles , Felix Huber

Reflectance, transmittance and absorbance of a symmetric light pulse, the carrying frequency of which is close to the frequency of interband transitions in a quantum well, are calculated. Energy levels of the quantum well are assumed…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. I. Korovin , I. G. Lang , S. T. Pavlov

Quantum sensing is a rapidly growing approach to probe fundamental physics and explore new phase space for possible new physics with precision and highly sensitive measurements in our quest to understand the deep structure of matter and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-26 Steven D. Bass , Michael Doser