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We show that classical particle mechanics (Hamiltonian and Lagrangian consistent with relativistic electromagnetism) can be derived from three fundamental assumptions: infinite reducibility, deterministic and reversible evolution, and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Gabriele Carcassi

The general, non-dissipative, two-fluid model in plasma physics is Hamiltonian, but this property is sometimes lost or obscured in the process of deriving simplified (or reduced) two-fluid or one-fluid models from the two-fluid equations of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 I. Keramidas Charidakos , M. Lingam , P. J. Morrison , R. L. White , A. Wurm

We discuss the initial-boundary value problem of General Relativity. Previous considerations for a toy model problem in electrodynamics motivate the introduction of a variational principle for the lapse with several attractive properties.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Gabriel Nagy , Olivier Sarbach

In this paper a new class of modified-Hessian equations, closely related to the Optimal Transportation Equation, will be introduced and studied. In particular, the existence of globally smooth, classical solutions of these equations…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-01-31 Greg T. von Nessi

We develop a modified semi-classical approach to the approximate solution of Schrodinger's equation for certain nonlinear quantum oscillations problems. At lowest order, the Hamilton-Jacobi equation of the conventional semi-classical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Vincent Moncrief , Antonella Marini , Rachel Maitra

The path integral for space-time noncommutative theory is formulated by means of Schwinger's action principle which is based on the equations of motion and a suitable ansatz of asymptotic conditions. The resulting path integral has…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Kazuo Fujikawa

A time fractional quantum framework has been introduced into quantum mechanics. A new version of the space-time fractional Schr\"odinger equation has been launched. The introduced space-time fractional Schr\"odinger equation has a new scale…

General Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 Nick Laskin

A Hamiltonian approach is presented to study the two dimensional motion of damped electric charges in time dependent electromagnetic fields. The classical and the corresponding quantum mechanical problems are solved for particular cases…

We treat a relativistically moving particle interacting with a quantum field from an open system viewpoint of quantum field theory by the method of influence functionals or closed-time-path coarse-grained effective actions. The particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Philip R. Johnson , B. L. Hu

A new variational method, the principle of least radix economy, is formulated. The mathematical and physical relevance of the radix economy, also called digit capacity, is established, showing how physical laws can be derived from this…

General Physics · Physics 2015-02-20 Vladimir Garcia-Morales

The fundamental principle of quantum mechanics is that the probabilities of physical outcomes are obtained from the intermediate states and processes of the interacting particles, considered as happening concurrently. When the interaction…

General Physics · Physics 2011-01-18 Spyros Efthimiades

We provide Vasiliev's fully nonlinear equations of motion for bosonic gauge fields in four spacetime dimensions with an action principle. We first extend Vasiliev's original system with differential forms in degrees higher than one. We then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Nicolas Boulanger , Per Sundell

A general variational principle of classical fields with a Lagrangian containing the field quantity and its derivatives of up to the N-th order is presented. Noether's theorem is derived. The generalized Hamilton-Jacobi's equation for the…

General Physics · Physics 2008-05-06 Zhaoyan Wu

A dual formalism for Lagrange multipliers is developed. The formalism is used to minimize an action function $S(q_2,q_1,T)$ without any dynamical input other than that $S$ is convex. All the key equations of analytical mechanics -- the…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 David J. Tannor

A simple procedure is presented to study the conservation of energy equation with dissipation in continuum mechanics in 1D. This procedure is used to transform this nonlinear evolution-diffusion equation into a hyperbolic PDE; specifically,…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Hamid A Said

Exact solutions describing a fall of a particle to the center of a non-regularized singular potential in classical and quantum cases are obtained and compared. We inspect the quantum problem with the help of the conventional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-15 Michael I. Tribelsky

The variational principle of quantum mechanics is the backbone of hybrid quantum computing for a range of applications. However, as the problem size grows, quantum logic errors and the effect of barren plateaus overwhelm the quality of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-01 Harish J. Vallury , Michael A. Jones , Charles D. Hill , Lloyd C. L. Hollenberg

It is common knowledge that the Einstein-Hilbert action does not furnish a well-posed variational principle. The usual solution to this problem is to add an extra boundary term to the action, called a counter-term, so that the variational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-15 Krishnamohan Parattu , Sumanta Chakraborty , T. Padmanabhan

Starting from the canonical formalism of relativistic (timeless) quantum mechanics, the formulation of timeless path integral is rigorously derived. The transition amplitude is reformulated as the sum, or functional integral, over all…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-16 Dah-Wei Chiou

In the pilot-wave theory of quantum mechanics particles have definite positions and velocities and the system evolves deterministically. The velocity of a particle is determined by the wave function of the system (the guidance equation) and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Dan N. Vollick