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We study a massive inflaton minimally coupled to the FRW Universe using the semiclassical gravity derived from canonical quantum gravity. It is found that the semiclassical quantum gravity leads to the power-law expansion $t^{2/3}$ in an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jung Kon Kim , Sang Pyo Kim

A single mechanism, endemic to the standard model of physics, is proposed to explain wavefunction collapse, classical motion, dissipation, equilibration, and the transition from pure quantum mechanics through open system decoherence to the…

General Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 J. H. Brownell

With recent developments in high-precision quantum measurements, the question of whether observations of decoherence from spacetime fluctuations are accessible experimentally arises. Here we investigate the dynamics of bound states…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-06 Teodora Oniga , Charles H. -T. Wang

Recently, we presented a unified way of analysing classical cosmological perturbation in generalized gravity theories. In this paper, we derive the perturbation spectrums generated from quantum fluctuations again in unified forms. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 J. Hwang

We proposed the modified version of quantum-mechanical theory of continuous measurements for the case of classical open systems. In our approach the influence of measurement on evolution of distribution function of an open system is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. D. Vol

This article will summarize selected aspects of the semiclassical theory of gravity, which involves a classical gravitational field coupled to quantum matter fields. Among the issues which will be discussed are the role of quantum effects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-23 L. H. Ford

We present an extension of the semiclassical Einstein equations which couples n-point correlation functions of a stochastic Einstein tensor to the n-point functions of the quantum stress-energy tensor. We apply this extension to calculate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-10 Nicola Pinamonti , Daniel Siemssen

We derive the fluctuation dynamics of a probe in weak coupling with a "living" medium, modeled as particles undergoing an active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck dynamics. Nondissipative corrections to the fluctuation-dissipation relation are written out…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-18 Christian Maes

We present a fluctuation relation for heat dissipation in a nonequilibrium system. A nonequilibrium work is known to obey the fluctuation theorem in any time interval $t$. A heat, which differs from a work by an energy change, is shown to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-06-19 Jae Dong Noh , Jong-Min Park

The Fluctuation Theorems are a group of exact relations that remain valid irrespective of how far the system has been driven away from equilibrium. Other than having practical applications, like determination of equilibrium free energy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-04 Sourabh Lahiri , A. M. Jayannavar

Mesoscopic physics deals with three fundamental issues: quantum coherence, fluctuations and correlations. Here we analyze these issues for atom optics, using a simplified model of an assembly of atoms (or detectors, which are particles with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. L. Hu , Alpan Raval

The aim of this paper is two-fold: in probing the statistical mechanical properties of interacting quantum fields, and in providing a field theoretical justification for a stochastic source term in the Boltzmann equation. We start with the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Esteban Calzetta , Bei Lok Hu

A time-domain formulation of the equilibrium quantum fluctuation-dissipation theorem (FDT) in the whole range of temperatures is presented. In the classical limit, the FDT establishes a proportionality relation between the dissipative part…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Noelle Pottier , Alain Mauger

We derive a general set of fluctuation relations for a nonequilibrium open quantum system described by a Lindblad master equation. In the special case of conservative Hamiltonian dynamics, these identities allow us to retrieve quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-02-05 Raphael Chetrite , Kirone Mallick

The semiclassical gravity describes gravitational back-reactions of the classical spacetime interacting with quantum matter fields but the quantum effects on the background is formally defined as higher derivative curvatures. These induce…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-06 Hiroki Matsui , Naoki Watamura

This article is based on the Planckon densely piled vacuum model and the principle of cosmology. With the Planck era as initial conditions and including the early inflation, we have solved the Einstein-Friedmann equations to describe the…

General Physics · Physics 2014-10-28 Shun-Jin Wang

According to the inflationary scenario, all structure in the Universe can be traced back to quantum fluctuations of the metric and scalar field(s) during inflation. The seeds of this structure can be observed as classical anisotropies in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Claus Kiefer

Detailed measurements of the cosmic microwave background indicate the large-scale homogeneity of the universe. On very small scales, we observe however inhomogeneities such as galaxies, stars, planets and ourselves. In the context of hot…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-02 Wouter Ryssens

Recently there has been considerable interest in the Fluctuation Theorem (FT). The FT shows how time reversible microscopic dynamics leads to irreversible macroscopic behavior as the system size or observation time increases. We show that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-02-18 Denis J. Evans , Debra J. Searles