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We investigate the previously unexplored quantum dynamics of non-relativistic, spinless particles propagating in curved spaces with torsion. Our findings demonstrate that while torsion has been predominantly associated with spin, it can…

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We investigate the cosmological implications of modified gravities induced by the quantum fluctuations of the gravitational metric. If the metric can be decomposed as the sum of the classical and of a fluctuating part, of quantum origin,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-02 Xing Liu , Tiberiu Harko , Shi-Dong Liang

The interplay between quantum fluctuation and spacetime curvature is shown to induce an additional quantum-curvature (QC) term in the energy-momentum tensor of fluid using the generalized framework of the stochastic variational method…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-17 T. Koide , T. Kodama

We investigate the problem of metric fluctuations in the presence of the vacuum fluctuations of matter fields and critically assess the usual assertion that vacuum energy implies a Planckian cosmological constant. A new stochastic classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-06-19 Charles H. -T. Wang , Paolo M. Bonifacio , Robert Bingham , J. Tito Mendonca

Bohmian mechanics offers a deterministic alternative to conventional quantum theory through well-defined particle trajectories. While successful in nonrelativistic contexts, its extension to curved spacetime-and hence quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-13 Mohamed Hatifi

We formulate cosmological perturbation theory around the spatially curved FLRW background in the context of metric-affine gauge theory of gravity which includes torsion and nonmetricity. Performing scalar-vector-tensor decomposition of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-18 Katsuki Aoki , Sebastian Bahamonde , Jorge Gigante Valcarcel , Mohammad Ali Gorji

We study the cosmology of the complete quadratic (in torsion and nonmetricity) metric-affine gravity. Namely, we add to the scalar-curvature gravitational Lagrangian, the 17 independent quadratic (parity-even and parity-odd) torsion and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-01 Damianos Iosifidis , Konstantinos Pallikaris

We investigate the propagation of magnetic skyrmions on elastically deformable geometries by employing imaginary time quantum field theory methods. We demonstrate that the Euclidean action of the problem carries information of the elements…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-15 Alexander Pavlis , Christina Psaroudaki

Quantum fluctuations of the vacuum stress-energy tensor are highly non-Gaussian, and can have unexpectedly large effects on spacetime geometry. In this paper, we study a two-dimensional dilaton gravity model coupled to a conformal field, in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-18 S. Carlip , Ricardo A. Mosna , J. P. M. Pitelli

It is well known in the literature that vacuum fluctuations can induce a random motion of particles which is sometimes called quantum Brownian motion or quantum stochastic motion. In this paper, we consider Lorentz Invariance Violation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-11 M. A. Anacleto , C. H. G. Bessa , F. A. Brito , A. E. Mateus , E. Passos , J. R. L. Santos

The general relativistic perturbations of scalar-tensor theories (STT) of gravity are studied in a manifestly gauge invariant Hamiltonian formalism. After the derivation of the Hamiltonian equations of motion in this framework, the gauge…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-08 Yu Han , Kristina Giesel , Yongge Ma

With the decline of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics and the recent experiments indicating that quantum mechanics does actually embody 'objective reality', one might ask if a 'mechanical', conceptual model for quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-23 Carl Frederick

This Thesis is devoted to the study of Metric-Affine Theories of Gravity and Applications to Cosmology. The thesis is organized as follows. In the first Chapter we define the various geometrical quantities that characterize a non-Riemannian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-27 Damianos Iosifidis

The quantum fluctuation of the stress tensor of a quantum field are discussed, as are the resulting spacetime metric fluctuations. Passive quantum gravity is an approximation in which gravity is not directly quantized, but fluctuations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 L. H. Ford , Chun-Hsien Wu

The algebras of non-relativistic and of classical mechanics are unstable algebraic structures. Their deformation towards stable structures leads, respectively, to relativity and to quantum mechanics. Likewise, the combined relativistic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Vilela Mendes

We investigate the cosmological aspects of the most general parity preserving Metric-Affine Gravity theory quadratic in torsion and non-metricity in the presence of a cosmological hyperfluid. The equations of motion are obtained by varying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-13 Damianos Iosifidis , Lucrezia Ravera

Quantum vacuum fluctuations tend to be strongly anti-correlated, which reduces their observable effects. However, time dependence can upset the cancellation of these anti-correlated fluctuations and greatly enhance their effects. This form…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-12 Victor Parkinson , L. H. Ford

We develop a geometric formulation of stochastic dynamics in which noise, diffusion, path probabilities, fluctuation theorems, and entropy production arise from the intrinsic geometry of an evolving manifold rather than from externally…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-31 David V. Svintradze

Any quantum system interacting with a complex environment undergoes decoherence. Empty space is filled with vacuum energy due to matter fields in their ground state and represents an underlying environment that any quantum particle has to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-26 Paolo M. Bonifacio

It is supposed the alternative to Quantum Mechanics Axiomatic. Fluctuational Theory save the Mathematics of Quantum Mechanic without change, naming this Mathematics as Method of Indirect Computation. Fluctuational Theory is delete the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Timur F. Kamalov
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