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We consider two approaches to evading paradoxes in quantum mechanics with closed timelike curves (CTCs). In a model similar to Politzer's, assuming pure states and using path integrals, we show that the problems of paradoxes and of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Allen Everett

Quantum dynamics on curved spacetime has never been directly probed beyond the Newtonian limit. Although we can describe such dynamics theoretically, experiments would provide empirical evidence that quantum theory holds even in this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Jacob P. Covey , Igor Pikovski , Johannes Borregaard

The transport in a pure one-dimensional quantum wire is investigated for any range of interactions. First, the wire is connected to measuring leads. The transmission of an incident electron is found to be perfect, and the conductance is not…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-10-30 Ines Safi

We present a refined semiclassical approach to the Landauer conductance and Kubo conductivity of clean chaotic mesoscopic systems. We demonstrate for systems with uniformly hyperbolic dynamics that including off-diagonal contributions to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Klaus Richter , Martin Sieber

The Lindblad quantum master equation is one of the central approaches to the physics of open quantum systems. In particular, boundary driving enables the study of transport, where a steady state emerges in the long-time limit, which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-20 Markus Kraft , Mariel Kempa , Jiaozi Wang , Robin Steinigeweg

Quantum mechanics introduces the concept of probability at the fundamental level, yielding the measurement problem. On the other hand, recent progress in cosmology has led to the "multiverse" picture, in which our observed universe is only…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-05-10 Yasunori Nomura

Precision metrology underpins scientific and technological advancements. Quantum metrology offers a pathway to surpass classical sensing limits by leveraging quantum states and measurement strategies. However, measuring multiple…

Measurement is a fundamental notion in the usual approximate quantum mechanics of measured subsystems. Probabilities are predicted for the outcomes of measurements. State vectors evolve unitarily in between measurements and by reduction of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-14 James B. Hartle

The measuring process is an external intervention in the dynamics of a quantum system. It involves a unitary interaction of that system with a measuring apparatus, a further interaction of both with an unknown environment causing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Asher Peres

Landauer's formula is the standard theoretical tool to examine ballistic transport in nano- and meso-scale junctions, but it necessitates that any variation of the junction with time must be slow compared to characteristic times of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-25 Daniel Gruss , Kirill A. Velizhanin , Michael Zwolak

We extend the theory of quantum time loops introduced by Greenberger and Svozil [1] from the scalar situation (where paths have just an associated complex amplitude) to the general situation where the time traveling system has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 J. E. Gough

Beyond their use as numerical tools, quantum trajectories can be ascribed a degree of reality in terms of quantum measurement theory. In fact, they arise naturally from considering continuous observation of a damped quantum system. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. M. Wiseman

The traditional approach to quantum parameter estimation focuses on the quantum state, deriving fundamental bounds on precision through the quantum Fisher information. In most experimental settings, however, performing arbitrary quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Shishir Khandelwal , Gabriel T. Landi , Géraldine Haack , Mark T. Mitchison

The mathematical equivalence of the time-independent Schrodinger equation and the Helmholtz equation is exploited to provide a novel means of studying universal conductance fluctuations in ballistic chaotic mesoscopic systems using a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sameer Hemmady , James Hart , Xing Zheng , Thomas M. Antonsen , Edward Ott , Steven M. Anlage

The standard physical model of contemporary mesoscopic noise and transport consists in a phenomenologically based approach, proposed originally by Landauer and since continued and amplified by Buettiker (and others). Throughout all the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frederick Green , Mukunda P. Das

The Kubo formula for the conductance of a mesoscopic system is analyzed semiclassically, yielding simple expressions for both weak localization and universal conductance fluctuations. In contrast to earlier work which dealt with times…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Nathan Argaman

The local density of states (LDOS) is a distribution that characterizes the effect of perturbations on quantum systems. Recently, it was proposed a semiclassical theory for the LDOS of chaotic billiards and maps. This theory predicts that…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-05 Darío E. Bullo , Diego A. Wisniacki

Recent experiments have probed quantum dots through transport measurements in the regime where they are described by a two lead Anderson model. In this paper we develop a new method to analytically compute for the first time the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Robert Konik , Hubert Saleur , Andreas Ludwig

The temporal evolution of a quantum system can be characterized by quantum process tomography, a complex task that consumes a number of physical resources scaling exponentially with the number of subsystems. An alternative approach to the…

An emergent theory of quantum measurement arises directly by considering the particular subset of many body wavefunctions that can be associated with classical condensed matter and its interaction with delocalized wavefunctions. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-03 Clifford Chafin