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New fluctuation properties arise in problems where both spatial integration and energy summation are necessary ingredients. The quintessential example is given by the short-range approximation to the first order ground state contribution of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Steven Tomsovic , Denis Ullmo , Arnd Baecker

Superconductor-insulator transition is one of the remarkable phenomena driven by quantum fluctuation in two-dimensional (2D) systems. Such a quantum phase transition (QPT) was investigated predominantly on highly disordered thin films with…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-04-20 Yu Saito , Tsutomu Nojima , Yoshihiro Iwasa

Motivated by the question of stability, in this letter we argue that an effective "quantum" theory can emerge in complex adaptive systems. In the concrete example of stochastic Lotka-Volterra dynamics, the relevant effective "Planck…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-06 Djordje Minic , Sinisa Pajevic

Quantum fluctuations in the mazer are considered, arising either from the atomic motion or from the quantized intracavity field. Analytical results, for both the meza and the hyperbolic secant mode profile, predict for example an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jonas Larson

We consider non minimal coupling between matters and gravity in modified theories of gravity. In contrary to the current common sense, we report that quantum mechanics can effectively emerge when the space-time geometry is sufficiently…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-27 Qasem Exirifard

Vacuum quantum fluctuations are an inescapable and fundamental feature of modern physics. By integrating cavity-enhanced or surface-modified vacuum quantum fluctuations with low-dimensional materials, a new paradigm-vacuumronics-emerges,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Qing-Dong Jiang

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

A quantum fluctuation theorem for a driven quantum subsystem interacting with its environment is derived based solely on the assumption that its reduced density matrix obeys a closed evolution equation i.e. a quantum master equation (QME).…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-01 Massimiliano Esposito , Shaul Mukamel

This paper is a contribution to the development of a framework, to be used in the context of semiclassical canonical quantum gravity, in which to frame questions about the correspondence between discrete spacetime structures at "quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Luca Bombelli , Alejandro Corichi , Oliver Winkler

Massless scalar fields originating in a quantum vacuum state acquire a scale-invariant spectrum of fluctuations in a matter-dominated contracting universe. We show that these isocurvature fluctuations transfer to a scale-invariant spectrum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Yi-Fu Cai , Robert Brandenberger , Xinmin Zhang

This article is concerned with statistics of addition spectra for systems of identical charged particles. A classical model is suggested in order to study fluctuations of Coulomb blockade peak spacings in large two-dimensional semiconductor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Yshai Avishai , Daniel Berend , Richard Berkovits

We clarify novel forms of scaling functions of conductance, critical conductance distribution and localization length in a disorder-driven quantum phase transition between band insulator and Weyl semimetal phases. Quantum criticality of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-07-11 Xunlong Luo , Tomi Ohtsuki , Ryuichi Shindou

We investigate current fluctuations in open quantum systems beyond the weak-coupling and Markovian regimes, focusing on a coherently driven qubit strongly coupled to a structured bosonic environment. By combining full counting statistics…

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

Matrix theory is a proposed non-perturbative definition of superstring theory in which space is emergent. Recently, it was shown that space-time can emerge with a scale-invariant spectrum of cosmological perturbations which is sourced by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-21 Samuel Laliberte , Suddhasattwa Brahma

We do not observe quantum effects on cosmological scales. Thus, if loop quantum cosmology (LQC) is to provide an accurate depiction of the real world, it must allow for quantum states of spacetime geometry which are semi-classical in two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-28 Patrick Fraser

We examine vacuum fluctuations in theories with modified dispersion relations which represent dimensional reduction at high energies. By changing units of energy and momentum we can obtain a description rendering the dispersion relations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-16 Michele Arzano , Giulia Gubitosi , Joao Magueijo , Giovanni Amelino-Camelia

The concept of weak invariants has recently been introduced in the context of conserved quantities in finite-time processes in nonequilibrium quantum thermodynamics. A weak invariant itself has a time-dependent spectrum, but its expectation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 Sumiyoshi Abe

In this talk I review a series of recent conceptual developments at the interface of the quantum and gravitational realms. Wherever possible, I comment on the possibility to probe the interface experimentally. It is concluded that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. V. Ahluwalia

We study the passive influence of quantum matter fluctuations on the expansion parameter of a congruence of timelike geodesics in a semiclassical regime. In particular, we show that, the perturbations of this parameter can be considered to…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-08 Nicolò Drago , Nicola Pinamonti