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A proposal is made for a mathematically unambiguous treatment of evolution in the presence of closed timelike curves. In constrast to other proposals for handling the naively nonunitary evolution that is often present in such situations,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-01 Arlen Anderson

We propose an operator constraint equation for the wavefunction of the Universe that admits genuine evolution. While the corresponding classical theory is equivalent to the canonical decomposition of General Relativity, the quantum theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-03 Sean Gryb , Karim Thebault

We study the time evolution of a wave function for the spatially flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker universe governed by the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in both analytical and numerical methods. We consider a Brown-Kuchar dust as a matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-14 Hideki Maeda

The Fock quantization of fields propagating in cosmological spacetimes is not uniquely determined because of several reasons. Apart from the ambiguity in the choice of the quantum representation of the canonical commutation relations, there…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-25 Jeronimo Cortez , Guillermo A. Mena Marugan , Javier Olmedo , Jose M. Velhinho

We adopt the general formalism, which was developed in Paper I (arXiv:0708.1233) to analyze the evolution of a quantized time-dependent oscillator, to address several questions in the context of quantum field theory in time dependent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 Gaurang Mahajan , T. Padmanabhan

A cornerstone of quantum mechanics is the characterisation of symmetries provided by Wigner's theorem. Wigner's theorem establishes that every symmetry of the quantum state space must be either a unitary transformation, or an antiunitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Giulio Chiribella , Erik Aurell , Karol Życzkowski

We introduce a nonperturbative, first-principles approach to time-dependent problems in quantum field theory. In this approach, the time-evolution of quantum field configurations is calculated in real time and at the amplitude level. This…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-18 Xingbo Zhao , Anton Ilderton , Pieter Maris , James P. Vary

The evolution equations of quantum observables are derived from the classical Hamiltonian equations of motion with the only additional assumption that the phase space is non-commutative. The demonstration of the quantum evolution laws is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Daniela Dragoman

In the first part of our paper we analyze bisolutions and inverses of (non-autonomous) evolution equations. We are mostly interested in pseudo-unitary evolutions on Krein spaces, which naturally arise in linear Quantum Field Theory. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Jan Dereziński , Daniel Siemssen

For quantum theories with a classical limit (which includes the large N limits of typical field theories), we derive a hierarchy of evolution equations for equal time correlators which systematically incorporate corrections to the limiting…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Anton V. Ryzhov , Laurence G. Yaffe

Haag's theorem has shown that the transformation between interacting and free field operators in a reasonable quantum field theory cannot be unitary. Here, the original requirement of unitarity is revisited from a physical point of view to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-07-11 Tarun Biswas

We develop a new analytical method for solving real time evolution problems of quantum many-body systems. Our approach is a direct generalization of the well-known canonical perturbation theory for classical systems. Similar to canonical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Hackl , S. Kehrein

This work discusses a variational approach to determining the time evolution operator. We directly see a glimpse of how a generalization of the quantum geometric tensor for unitary operators plays a central role in parameter evolution. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Michael Vogl

We consider the time evolution of nonequilibrium quantum scalar fields in the O(N) model, using the next-to-leading order 1/N expansion of the 2PI effective action. A comparison with exact numerical simulations in 1+1 dimensions in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-04 Gert Aarts , Jurgen Berges

We consider a graph with a single quantum system at each node. The entire compound system evolves in discrete time steps by iterating a global evolution $U$. We require that this global evolution $U$ be unitary, in accordance with quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-29 Pablo Arrighi , Vincent Nesme , Reinhard Werner

Quantization of arbitrary free scalar fields in spatially homogeneous and isotropic space-times is considered. The quantum representation allowing a unitary evolution for the fields is taken as a requirement for the theory. Studying the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-02 Sandro D. P. Vitenti

For any Dirac theory of quantum gravity governed by a set of well-defined quantum constraints, we discover a universal formula for the exact form of the evolution Hamiltonian operator in a variable quantum reference frame of our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-20 Chun-Yen Lin

We study the time evolution operator in a family of local quantum circuits with random fields in a fixed direction. We argue that the presence of quantum chaos implies that at large times the time evolution operator becomes effectively a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-12 Pavel Kos , Bruno Bertini , Tomaž Prosen

Emergent scenario of cosmic evolution is a topic of great interest in recent cosmology, especially because it describes a non-singular origin of the Universe unlike the Big-Bang models. This types of cosmic evolution pattern have already…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-01 Subhayan Maity , Sujayita Bakra

Optimal realizations of quantum technology tasks lead to the necessity of a detailed analytical study of the behavior of a $d$-level quantum system (qudit) under a time-dependent Hamiltonian. In the present article, we introduce a new…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 Elena R. Loubenets , Christian Käding