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Two formulations of quantum mechanics, inequivalent in the presence of closed timelike curves, are studied in the context of a soluable system. It illustrates how quantum field nonlinearities lead to a breakdown of unitarity, causality, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 H. David Politzer

The measurement statistics for spatial and temporal quantum processes are produced through distinct mechanisms. Measurements that are space-like separated exhibit non-signaling behavior. However, time-like separated measurements can only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 Zhian Jia , Dagomir Kaszlikowski

The properties of the probability distribution function of the cosmological continuous density field are studied. We present further developments and compare dynamically motivated methods to derive the PDF. One of them is based on the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 F. Bernardeau , L. Kofman

Coherent or semiclassical states in canonical quantum gravity describe the classical Schwarzschild space-time. By tracing over the coherent state wavefunction inside the horizon, a density matrix is derived. Bekenstein-Hawking entropy is…

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

Using the ADM formalism, we demonstrate that the Hamiltonian formulation of Quantum Gravity is exactly in the form of a worldline (WL) formalism in the superspace. We then show that the Keldysh partition function reduces to the partition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Jean-Baptiste Roux

Structure formation provides a strong test of any cosmic acceleration model because a successful dark energy model must not inhibit {\black or overpredict} the development of observed large-scale structures. Traditional approaches to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-28 C. Prescod-Weinstein , N. Afshordi

Geometry plays a fundamental role in a wide range of physical responses, from anomalous transport coefficients to their related sum rules. Notable examples include the quantization of the Hall conductivity and the Souza-Wilkens-Martin (SWM)…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Guangyue Ji , David E. Palomino , Nathan Goldman , Tomoki Ozawa , Peter Riseborough , Jie Wang , Bruno Mera

A collective description of density matrix is presented for identical multi-level atoms, which are either excited initially, driven coherently or pumped incoherently. The density matrix is defined as expectation value of projection or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-17 Yuan Zhang

A novel routine to investigate the scalar fields in a cosmological context is discussed in the framework of the Hamiltonian formalism. Starting from the Einstein-Hilbert action coupled to a Lagrangian density that contains two components -…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-16 Alex E. Bernardini , O. Bertolami

New general results of non-existence and rigidity of spacelike submanifolds immersed in a spacetime, whose mean curvature is a time-oriented causal vector field, are given. These results hold for a wide class of spacetimes which includes…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-11-12 uan A. Aledo , Rafael M. Rubio , Juan J. Salamanca

In previous works, we showed that both time and space can emerge from entanglement within a globally constrained quantum Universe, with no background coordinates. By extending the Page and Wootters quantum time formalism to include both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 Tommaso Favalli

In this contribution, we study spacetimes of cosmological interest, without making any symmetry assumptions. We prove a rigid Hawking singularity theorem for positive cosmological constant, which sharpens known results. In particular, it…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-16 Gregory J. Galloway , Leonardo García-Heveling

This paper contains a collection of essays on nonlocal phenomena in quantum field theory, gravity and cosmology. Mechanisms of nonlocal contributions to the quantum effective action are discussed within the covariant perturbation expansion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 A. O. Barvinsky

Spatial and temporal quantum correlations can be unified in the framework of the pseudo-density operators, and quantum causality between the involved events in an experiment is encoded in the corresponding pseudo-density operator. We study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-22 Zhian Jia , Minjeong Song , Dagomir Kaszlikowski

We derive quantum kinetic equations for fermions in a homogeneous time-dependent background in presence of decohering collisions, by use of the Schwinger-Keldysh CTP-formalism. The quantum coherence (between particles and antiparticles) is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-24 Matti Herranen , Kimmo Kainulainen , Pyry Matti Rahkila

We provide a detailed comparison between the dynamics of high-temperature spatiotemporal correlation functions in quantum and classical spin models. In the quantum case, our large-scale numerics are based on the concept of quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-01 Tjark Heitmann , Jonas Richter , Fengping Jin , Kristel Michielsen , Hans De Raedt , Robin Steinigeweg

This work investigates some global questions about cosmological spacetimes with two dimensional spherical, plane and hyperbolic symmetry containing matter. The result is, that these spacetimes admit a global foliation by prescribed mean…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Oliver Henkel

Geometric representations of solutions provides intuitive physical insights. To which end studying dynamics of Quantum systems via $su (n)$ Lie algebra proves to be convenient way of obtaining geometric solution. In this paper link is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-10 Dawit Hiluf

We develop a finite-dimensional formulation of the recently introduced notion of ``timelike entanglement'', defined in terms of two-point functions between operators supported on different Cauchy slices. Using a local orthonormal operator…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-09 Rathindra Nath Das , Arnab Kundu , Matheus H. Martins Costa , Nemai Chandra Sarkar

This paper is a generalization of earlier papers [Nucl. Phys. B 884, 344 (2014) (arXiv:1312.2759) and JHEP 6, 63 (2015) (arXiv:1401.2488)]. We generalize the idea of quantum clock time to quantum spacetime reference frame via physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-20 M. J. Luo