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It has been shown that gravitational fields produced by realistic classical-matter distributions can force quantum vacuum fluctuations of some nonminimally coupled free scalar fields to undergo a phase of exponential growth. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-09 André G. S. Landulfo , William C. C. Lima , George E. A. Matsas , Daniel A. T. Vanzella

This note presents an attempt to provide a conceptual framework for variational formulations of classical physics. Variational principles of physics have all a common source in the {\it principle of virtual work} well known in statics of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wlodzimierz M. Tulczyjew

Some general remarks are made about the quantum theory of scalar fields and the definition of momentum in curved space. Special emphasis is given to field theory in anti-de Sitter space, as it represents a maximally symmetric space-time of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Simon Davis

A typical geometry extracted from the path integral of a quantum theory of gravity might be quite complicated in the UV region. Even if such a configuration is not physical, it may be of interest to understand the details of its nature,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-27 Jan Ambjørn , Zbigniew Drogosz , Jakub Gizbert-Studnicki , Andrzej Görlich , Jerzy Jurkiewicz , Dániel Németh

Classical and quantum mechanical descriptions of physical world are seamlessly abridged within the framework of Lagrangian formalism which, besides revealing the essence of nonlocally correlated dynamic evolution, helps understanding abrupt…

Classical Physics · Physics 2024-10-04 D Das

We construct a class of systems for which quantum dynamics can be expanded around a mean field approximation with essentially classical content. The modulus of the quantum overlap of mean field states naturally introduces a classical…

In this paper we examine the stability of scalar perturbations in nonsingular models which emerge from an interacting vacuum component. The analysis developed in this paper relies on two phenomenological choices for the energy exchange…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-24 Filipe Cattete Alves , Rodrigo Maier

The origin of cosmic structure is widely regarded as quantum, yet the Universe today appears classical. Standard lore attributes this to a "quantum-to-classical" transition on super-horizon scales during inflation. Gravity plays a central…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-03 Aurora Ireland

In this work, surface diffusion is studied with a different perspective by showing how the corresponding open dynamics is transformed when passing, in a continuous and smooth way, from a pure quantum regime to a full classical regime; the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-02 E. E. Torres-Miyares , S. Miret-Artés

Feynman's laws of quantum dynamics are concisely stated, discussed in comparison with other formulations of quantum mechanics and applied to selected problems in the physical optics of photons and massive particles as well as flavour…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-12 J. H. Field

A Newtonian mechanics model is essentially the model of a point body in an inertial reference frame. How to describe extended bodies in non-inertial (vibrational) reference frames with the random initial conditions? One of the most general…

General Physics · Physics 2016-11-26 Timur Kamalov

Quantum dynamics can be regarded as a generalization of classical finite-state dynamics. This is a familiar viewpoint for workers in quantum computation, which encompasses classical computation as a special case. Here this viewpoint is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 Norman Margolus

We consider in general terms dynamical systems with finite-dimensional, non-simply connected configuration-spaces. The fundamental group is assumed to be finite. We analyze in full detail those ambiguities in the quantization procedure that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Domenico Giulini

The concept of unified field theory is discussed. Two nonlinear field models with world volume type action are considered, namely extremal space-time film model and Born -- Infeld nonlinear electrodynamics. The natural appearance of two…

General Physics · Physics 2020-04-23 Alexander A. Chernitskii

In this paper, we investigate the effects of a classical gravitational field on the dynamical behaviour of nonlinear atom-field interaction within the framework of the f-deformed Jaynes-Cummings model. For this purpose, we first introduce a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-04 Sh. Barzanjeh1 , M. H. Naderi , M. Soltanolkotabi

We address the dynamics of a bosonic system coupled to either a bosonic or a magnetic environment, and derive a set of sufficient conditions that allow one to describe the dynamics in terms of the effective interaction with a classical…

We study the late time evolution of flat and negatively curved FRW models with a perfect fluid matter source and a scalar field having an arbitrary non-negative potential function $V(\phi) .$ We prove using a dynamical systems approach four…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 John Miritzis

The phenomenology of quantum systems in curved space-times is among the most fascinating fields of physics, allowing --often at the gedankenexperiment level-- constraints on tentative theories of quantum gravity. Determining the dynamics of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Grain , A. Barrau

Till now, the foundation of quantum physics is still mysterious. To explore the mysteries in the foundation of quantum physics, people always take it for granted that quantum processes must be some types of fields/objects on a rigid space.…

General Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Su-Peng Kou

The present contribution deals with surface terms appearing immediately in distributions and partition functions of statistical ensembles. It is shown that all ensembles under study, including ordinary canonical and grand canonical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-02-26 V. M. Zaskulnikov