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Schemes of gravitationally induced decoherence are being actively investigated as possible mechanisms for the quantum-to-classical transition. Here, we introduce a decoherence process due to quantum gravity effects. We assume a foamy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-23 Luciano Petruzziello , Fabrizio Illuminati

The gravitational dynamics of 3+1 dimensional covariant quantum spacetime in the IKKT or IIB matrix model is studied at one loop, combining the Yang-Mills-type matrix action with the induced Einstein-Hilbert action. This combined action…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-14 Harold C. Steinacker

Canonical quantum gravity provides insights into the quantum dynamics as well as quantum geometry of space-time by its implications for constraints. Loop quantum gravity in particular requires specific corrections due to its quantization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-14 Martin Bojowald

In any attempt to build a quantum theory of gravity, a central issue is to unravel the structure of space-time at the smallest scale. Of particular relevance is the possible definition of coordinate functions within the theory and the study…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Alejandro Corichi , Jose A. Zapata

The quantum ratchet current is studied in the parameter space of the dissipative kicked rotor model coupled to a zero temperature quantum environment. We show that vacuum fluctuations blur the generic isoperiodic stable structures found in…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-15 M. W. Beims , M. Schlesinger , C. Manchein , A. Celestino , A. Pernice , W. T. Strunz

When a quantum many-particle system exists on a randomly diluted lattice, its intrinsic thermal and quantum fluctuations coexist with geometric fluctuations due to percolation. In this paper, we explore how the interplay of these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-23 Thomas Vojta , J. A. Hoyos

Non commutative geometry is creating new possibilities for physics. Quantum spacetime geometry and post inflationary models of the universe with matter creation have an enormous range of scales of time, distance and energy in between. There…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ajay Patwardhan

The study of physics at the Planck scale has garnered significant attention due to its implications for understanding the fundamental nature of the universe. At the Planck scale, quantum fluctuations challenge the classical notion of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-26 Weihu Ma , Yu-Gang Ma

We report the quantitative experimental observation of the weak inertial-wave turbulence regime of rotating turbulence. We produce a statistically steady homogeneous turbulent flow that consists of nonlinearly interacting inertial waves,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2021-07-26 Eduardo Monsalve , Maxime Brunet , Basile Gallet , Pierre-Philippe Cortet

Quantum fluctuations of a nonminimally coupled scalar field in D-dimensional homogeneous and isotropic background are calculated within the operator formalism in curved models with time evolutions of the scale factor that allow smooth…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-18 Tomi Koivisto , Tomislav Prokopec

The gravitational dynamics and cosmological implications of three classes of recently introduced multi-scale spacetimes (with, respectively, ordinary, weighted and q-derivatives) are discussed. These spacetimes are non-Riemannian: the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-15 Gianluca Calcagni

A geometric formalism is developed which allows to describe the non-linear regime of higher-spin gravity emerging on a cosmological quantum space-time in the IKKT matrix model. The vacuum solutions are Ricci-flat up to an effective vacuum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-09-23 Harold C. Steinacker

We discuss minimal covariant quantum space-time ${\cal M}^{1,3}_0$, which is defined through the minimal doubleton representation of $\mathfrak{so}(4,2)$. An elementary definition in terms of generators and relations is given. This space is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-05 Alessandro Manta , Harold C. Steinacker

A semiclassical description of quantum systems is applied to probe the dynamics of the cosmological model of an inflationary universe with quadratic inflaton potential, described in a quantum framework of geometrodynamics. The systematic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-27 David Brizuela , Tomasz Pawlowski

In Pre-Big-Bang and in Ekpyrotic Cosmology, perturbations on cosmological scales today are generated from quantum vacuum fluctuations during a phase when the Universe is contracting (viewed in the Einstein frame). The backgrounds studied to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Fabio Finelli , Robert Brandenberger

In the Coulomb blockade regime of a ballistic quantum dot, the distribution of conductance peak spacings is well known to be incorrectly predicted by a single-particle picture; instead, matrix element fluctuations of the residual electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-08-14 L. Kaplan

The effective theory of adiabatic fluctuations around arbitrary Friedmann-Robertson-Walker backgrounds - both expanding and contracting - allows for more than one way to obtain scale-invariant two-point correlations. However, as we show in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Daniel Baumann , Leonardo Senatore , Matias Zaldarriaga

We analyze the size and evolution of quantum fluctuations of cosmologically relevant geometric observables, in the context of the effective relational cosmological dynamics of GFT models of quantum gravity. We consider the fluctuations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-23 Luca Marchetti , Daniele Oriti

A new framework of loop quantization that assimilates conformal and scale invariance is constructed and is found to be applicable to a large class of physically important theories of gravity and gravity-matter systems. They include general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-01-02 Charles H. -T. Wang , Daniel P. F. Rodrigues

We study the interactions of the higher-spin gauge theory arising from the IKKT matrix model on a covariant quantum FLRW quantum space-time $\mathcal{M}^{1,3}_{\mathtt{J}}$, denoted as HS-IKKT. In particular, we elaborate some of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-09-19 Harold C. Steinacker , Tung Tran