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I suggest that the common unease with taking quantum mechanics as a fundamental description of nature (the "measurement problem") could derive from the use of an incorrect notion, as the unease with the Lorentz transformations before…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Carlo Rovelli

The spin is the prime example of a qubit. Encoding and decoding information in the spin qubit is operationally well defined through the Stern-Gerlach set-up in the non-relativistic (i.e., low velocity) limit. However, an operational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Flaminia Giacomini , Esteban Castro-Ruiz , Časlav Brukner

Single particle detection is described in a limited way by simple models of measurements in quantum field theory. We show that a general approach, using Kraus operators in spacetime constructed from natural combinations of fields, leads to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-28 Adam Bednorz

A quantum field theoretical approach, in which a quantum probe is used to investigate the properties generic non-flat FLRW space-times is discussed. The probe is identified with a conformally coupled massless scalar field defined on a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-27 Yevgeniya Rabochaya , Sergio Zerbini

Different relativistic quantum mechanics approaches have recently been used to calculate properties of various systems, form factors in particular. It is known that predictions, which most often rely on a single-particle current…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Bertrand Desplanques , Yu Bing Dong

Having started with the general formulation of the quantum theory of the real scalar field (QFT) in the general Riemannian space--time $ V_{1,3} $, the general--covariant quasinonrelativistic quantum mechanics of a point-like spinless…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 E. A. Tagirov

The local observables of the quantised electromagnetic field near a mirror-coated interface depend strongly on the properties of the media on {\em both} sides. In macroscopic quantum electrodynamics, this fact is taken into account with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-20 Benjamin Dawson , Nicholas Furtak-Wells , Thomas Mann , Gin Jose , Almut Beige

In previous works, we showed that both time and space can emerge from entanglement within a globally constrained quantum Universe, with no background coordinates. By extending the Page and Wootters quantum time formalism to include both…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 Tommaso Favalli

General quasi-probabilities are introduced to visualize time-dependent quantum correlations of light in phase space. They are based on the generalization of the Glauber-Sudarshan P function to a time-dependent P functional [W. Vogel, Phys.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-14 Fabian Krumm , Werner Vogel , Jan Sperling

Quantum Space Time may be characterized by a plethora of novel phenomena, such as Lorentz violations and non-trivial refractive indices, stochastic metric fluctuation effects leading to decoherence of quantum matter and non-commutativity of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-14 Nick E. Mavromatos

The present work shows that through a suitable change of variables relativistic dynamics can be mapped to light propagation in a non-homogeneous medium. A particle's trajectory through the modified space-time is thus formally equivalent to…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. B. Almeida

Recently, there has been much interest in a new kind of ``unspeakable'' quantum information that stands to regular quantum information in the same way that a direction in space or a moment in time stands to a classical bit string: the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen D. Bartlett , Terry Rudolph , Robert W. Spekkens

Quantum matter in quantum space-time is discussed using general properties of energy-conservation laws. As a rather radical conclusion, it is found that standard methods of differential geometry and quantum field theory on curved space-time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-13 Martin Bojowald , Golam Mortuza Hossain , Mikhail Kagan , Casey Tomlin

We present a new quantum algebraic description of an electron localized in space-time. Positions in space and time, mass and Clifford generators are defined as quantum operators. Commutation relations and relativistic shifts under frame…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Marc-Thierry Jaekel , Serge Reynaud

Over the last decade a growing number of quantum-gravity researchers has been looking for opportunities for the first ever experimental evidence of a Planck-length quantum property of spacetime. These studies are usually based on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-24 Giovanni Amelino-Camelia

"Non-Locality is most naturally incorporated into a theory in which there is a special frame of reference. One possible candidate for this special frame of reference is the one in which the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is isotropic.…

General Physics · Physics 2022-09-16 Maurizio Consoli , Alessandro Pluchino , Paola Zizzi

We discuss alternatives to the usual quantization of relativistic particles which result in discrete spectra for position and time operators.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-06-13 A. Stern

We formulate quantum mechanics in spacetimes with real-order fractional geometry and more general factorizable measures. In spacetimes where coordinates and momenta span the whole real line, Heisenberg's principle is proven and the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-10-18 Gianluca Calcagni , Giuseppe Nardelli , Marco Scalisi

Current models of quantum interference experiments in external gravitational fields lack a common framework: while matter-wave interferometers are commonly described using the Schr\"odinger equation with a Newtonian potential, gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-11 Thomas B. Mieling , Thomas Morling , Christopher Hilweg , Philip Walther

We construct the algebra of operators acting on the Hilbert spaces of Quantum Mechanics for systems of $N$ identical particles from the field operators acting in the Fock space of Quantum Field Theory by providing the explicit relation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-10 Nuno Barros e Sá , Cláudio Gomes