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The basic idea of a microscopic understanding of Thermodynamics is to derive its main features from a microscopic probability distribution. In such a vein, we investigate the thermal statistics of quasi-probabilities's semi-classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-20 F. Pennini , A. Plastino , M. C. Rocca

Some quantal systems require only a small part of the full quantum theory for their analysis in classical terms. In such understanding we review some recent literature on semiclassical treatments. An analysis of it allows one to see that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-17 F. Pennini , A. Plastino

Canonical BRST quantization of the topological particle defined by a Morse function h is described. Stochastic calculus, using Brownian paths which implement the WKB method in a new way providing rigorous tunnelling results even in curved…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Alice Rogers

If we admit that quantum mechanics (QM) is universal theory, then QM should contain also some description of classical mechanical systems. The presented text contains description of two different ways how the mathematical description of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-07-28 Pavel Bóna

In this paper, we develop a formalism describing in a relativistic way a system which consists of a classical and a quantum part being coupled. The formalism models one particle with spin 1/2 and it is a possible relativistic extension of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andreas Ruschhaupt

Motivated by the consistent histories approach to quantum mechanics, we examine a simple model of hydrodynamic coarse-graining for a scalar field. It consists in averaging the field over spatial regions of size L and constructing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Anastopoulos

An idealised experiment estimating the spacetime topology is considered in both classical and quantum frameworks. The latter is described in terms of histories approach to quantum theory. A procedure creating combinatorial models of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. B. Breslav , G. N. Parfionov , R. R. Zapatrin

The minimal memory required to model a given stochastic process - known as the statistical complexity - is a widely adopted quantifier of structure in complexity science. Here, we ask if quantum mechanics can fundamentally change the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-28 Whei Yeap Suen , Jayne Thompson , Andrew J. P. Garner , Vlatko Vedral , Mile Gu

Descriptions of relativistic quantum physics that derive from quantizations of classical physics require additional technical properties and these technical conjectures exclude interaction in example realizations. In this essay, uniquely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Glenn Eric Johnson

In a fundamental formulation of the quantum mechanics of a closed system such as the universe as a whole, three forms of information are needed to make predictions for the probabilities of alternative time histories of the closed system .…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-16 James B. Hartle

Extending phase space to include time and it canonical conjugate energy as well as the usual momentum and position variables, and then introducing the constraint which sets energy equal to the Hamiltonian, gives a symplectic action of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-08-02 Alicia Lopez , Alice Rogers

Quantum mechanical time operator is introduced following the parametric formulation of classical mechanics in the extended phase space. Quantum constraint on the extended quantum system is defined in analogy to the constraint of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-15 Nikola Buri\' c , Slobodan Prvanovi\' c

The quantum double for the quantized BRST superalgebra is studied. The corresponding R-matrix is explicitly constucted. The Hopf algebras of the double form an analytical variety with coordinates described by the canonical deformation…

q-alg · Mathematics 2008-11-26 V. D. Lyakhovsky , V. I. Tkach

Today it still remains a challenge whether quantum mechanics has an underlying statistical explanation or not. While there are and were a lot of models trying to explain quantum phenomena with statistical methods these all failed on certain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-05 Gabor Helesfai

We pursue the view that quantum theory may be an emergent structure related to large space-time scales. In particular, we consider classical Hamiltonian systems in which the intrinsic proper time evolution parameter is related through a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Hans-Thomas Elze

This is an introduction to quantum gravity, aimed at a fairly general audience and concentrating on what have historically two main approaches to quantum gravity: the covariant and canonical programs (string theory is not covered). The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 David Wallace

It is shown that the equations of relativistic Bohmian mechanics for multiple bosonic particles have a dual description in terms of a classical theory of conformally "curved" space-time. This shows that it is possible to formulate quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-18 Benjamin Koch

We describe a quantum limit to measurement of classical spacetimes. Specifically, we formulate a quantum Cramer-Rao lower bound for estimating the single parameter in any one-parameter family of spacetime metrics. We employ the locally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 T. G. Downes , J. R. van Meter , E. Knill , G. J. Milburn , C. M. Caves

We extend classical coarse-grained entropy, commonly used in many branches of physics, to the quantum realm. We find two coarse-grainings, one using measurements of local particle numbers and then total energy, and the second using local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-17 Dominik Šafránek , J. M. Deutsch , Anthony Aguirre

In the consistent histories formalism one specifies a family of histories as an exhaustive set of pairwise exclusive descriptions of the dynamics of a quantum system. We define branching families of histories, which strike a middle ground…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Müller