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The interaction of classical gravitational waves (GW) with matter is studied within a quantum mechanical framework. The classical equations of motion in the long wave-length limit is quantized and a Schroedinger equation for the interaction…

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Dynamical systems associated with a q-deformed two dimensional phase space are studied as effective dynamical systems described by ordinary variables. In quantum theory, the momentum operator in such a deformed phase space becomes a…

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We extend here the canonical treatment of spherically symmetric (quantum) gravity to the most simple matter coupling, namely spherically symmetric Maxwell theory with or without a cosmological constant. The quantization is based on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-01 T. Thiemann

We formulate a model of gravitationally induced decoherence for photons starting from Maxwell theory coupled to linearised gravity, expressed in terms of Ashtekar-Barbero variables and treated as an open quantum field theoretic system. In…

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Emergent modified gravity has shown that the canonical formulation of general relativity gives rise to a larger class of covariant modifications than action-based approaches, so far in symmetry-reduced models. This outcome is made possible…

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In "extended phase space" approach to quantum geometrodynamics numerical solutions to Schrodinger equation corresponding to various choice of gauge conditions are obtained for the simplest isotropic model. The "extended phase space"…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-01-31 T. P. Shestakova

This work presents physical consequences of our theory of induced gravity (Ref.1) regarding: 1) the requirement to consider shape and materials properties when calculating graviton cross section collision area; 2) use of Special Relativity;…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gary Christopher Vezzoli

We introduce a new way of generating the quantum geometric phase by making the initial base state index dependent on space-time curvature. We prove that the resulting Schr\"odinger equation is identical to the trace form of the Einstein…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Jose Alberto Pereira Frugone

Since general relativity is a consistent low energy effective field theory, it is possible to compute quantum corrections to classical forces. Here we compute a quantum correction to the gravitational potential between a pair of polarizable…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 L. H. Ford , Mark P. Hertzberg , J. Karouby

In order to get the classical analogue of quantum interaction picture in classical symplectic geometric description, the space of solutions of free equations of motion is suggested to replace the phase space in $T^{*}Q$ description or the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. X Shao , Z. Y. Zhu

The basic laws of geometrical optics can be deduced from energy-momentum conservation for electromagnetic waves, without other wave concepts. However, the concept of quanta is required; it arises naturally, hence such a hypothesis could…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 John P. Hernandez

Modulating macroscopic parameters of materials in time offers innovative avenues for manipulating electromagnetic waves. Due to such enticing prospects, the general research subject of time-varying systems is expanding today in different…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-06 M. S. Mirmoosa , T. Setälä , A. Norrman

Maxwell equation in geometric algebra formalism with equally weighted basic solutions is subjected to continuously acting Clifford translation. The received states, operators acting on observables, are analyzed with different values of the…

General Physics · Physics 2018-07-24 Alexander Soiguine

The geometric phase is usually treated as a quantity modulo 2\pi, a convention carried over from early work on the subject. The results of a series of optical interference experiments involving polarization of light, done by the present…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-26 Rajendra Bhandari

This paper presents an alternative approach to geometric phases from the observable point of view. Precisely, we introduce the notion of observable-geometric phases, which is defined as a sequence of phases associated with a complete set of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-27 Zeqian Chen

The propagation of high-frequency gravitational waves can be analyzed using the geometrical optics approximation. In the case of large but finite frequencies, the geometrical optics approximation is no longer accurate, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-03 Lars Andersson , Jérémie Joudioux , Marius A. Oancea , Ayush Raj

By utilizing quantum optics techniques, we examine the characteristics of a quantum gravitational wave (GW) signature at interferometers. In particular, we study the problem by analyzing the equations of motion of a GW interacting with an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-28 Luca Abrahao , Francesco Coradeschi , Antonia Micol Frassino , Thiago Guerreiro , Jennifer Rittenhouse West , Enrico Junior Schioppa

Based on the concept of curved spacetime in Einsteinian General Relativity, the field theories and their quantum theories in the curved octonion spaces etc are discussed. The research results discover the close relationships of the curved…

General Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 Zihua Weng

A fundamental feature of quantum mechanics is that there are observables which can be measured jointly only when some noise is added to them. Their sharp versions are said to be incompatible. In this work we investigate time-continuous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Kalle Raikisto , Kimmo Luoma

The generally deformed oscillator (GDO) and its multiphoton realization as well as the coherent and squeezed vacuum states are studied. We discuss, in particular, the GDO depending on a complex parameter q (therefore we call it q-GDO)…

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