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We derive the functional Schrodinger equation for quantum fields in curved spacetime in the semiclassical limit of quantum geometrodynamics with a Gaussian incoherent dust acting as a clock field. We perform the semiclassical limit using a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-20 Marcello Rotondo

We study the back-reaction of quantum systems onto classical ones. Taking the starting point that semi-classical physics should be described at all times by a point in classical phase space and a quantum state in Hilbert space, we consider…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-18 Isaac Layton , Jonathan Oppenheim , Zachary Weller-Davies

In this and a companion paper, we show that quantum field theories with gauge symmetries permit a broader class of classical dynamics than typically assumed. In this article, we show that the dynamics extracted from the path integral or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-04 David E. Kaplan , Tom Melia , Surjeet Rajendran

We present a first-quantized formulation of the quadratic non-commutative field theory in the background of abelian (gauge) field. Even in this simple case the Hamiltonian of a propagating particle depends non-trivially on the momentum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Dymarsky

Quantum states can be described equivalently by density matrices, Wigner functions or quantum tomograms. We analyze the accuracy and performance of three related semiclassical approaches to quantum dynamics, in particular with respect to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-27 G. Schubert , V. S. Filinov , K. Matyash , R. Schneider , H. Fehske

The semigroup decomposition formalism makes use of the functional model for $C_{.0}$ class contractive semigroups for the description of the time evolution of resonances. For a given scattering problem the formalism allows for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. Strauss , L. P. Horwitz , A. Volovick

Quantum fields do not satisfy the pointwise energy conditions that are assumed in the original singularity theorems of Penrose and Hawking. Accordingly, semiclassical quantum gravity lies outside their scope. Although a number of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-13 Christopher J. Fewster , Eleni-Alexandra Kontou

The semiclassical theory for the large-N field models is developed from an unusual point of view. Analogously to the procedure of the second quantization in quantum mechanics, the functional Schrodinger large-N equation is presented in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 V. P. Maslov , O. Yu. Shvedov

It is shown how the essentials of quantum theory, i.e., the Schroedinger equation and the Heisenberg uncertainty relations, can be derived from classical physics. Next to the empirically grounded quantisation of energy and momentum, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gerhard Groessing

We show that the principal part of the Dirac Hamiltonian in 3+1 dimensions emerges in a semi-classical approximation from a construction which encodes the kinematics of quantum gravity. The construction is a spectral triple over a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-18 Johannes Aastrup , Jesper M. Grimstrup , Mario Paschke

Bifurcations of classical orbits introduce divergences into semiclassical spectra which have to be smoothed with the help of uniform approximations. We develop a technique to extract individual energy levels from semiclassical spectra…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Bartsch , J. Main , G. Wunner

A certain modification of the semiclassical quantization condition based on the summarization of the known power expansion in the squared Planck constant is proposed. Corresponding deviation from exact spectra arises only together with the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-12-11 N. N. Trunov

We use spin-coherent states as a time-dependent variational ansatz for a semiclassical description of a large family of Heisenberg models. In addition to common approaches we also evaluate the square variance of the Hamiltonian in terms of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 John Schliemann , Franz G. Mertens

The first-order loop quantum gravity correction of the simplest, classical general-relativistic Friedmann Hamiltonian constraint, emerging from a holomorphic spinfoam cosmological model peaked on homogeneous, isotropic geometries, is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-02 Christian Röken

We consider a semiclassical approximation for the time evolution of an originally gaussian wave packet in terms of complex trajectories. We also derive additional approximations replacing the complex trajectories by real ones. These yield…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. A. M. de Aguiar , M. Baranger , L. Jaubert , Fernando Parisio , A. D. Ribeiro

We found the deviation of the equation of state from ultrarelativistic one due to quantum corrections for a nonequilibrium longitudinally expanding scalar field. Relaxation of highly excited quantum field is usually described in terms of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-02-20 A. V. Leonidov , A. A. Radovskaya

The possibility that a classical space-time and quantum matter cohabit at the deepest level, i.e. the possibility of having a fundamental and not phenomenological semiclassical gravity, is often disregarded for lack of a good candidate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-02 Antoine Tilloy , Lajos Diósi

An Ising-type classical statistical model is shown to describe quantum fermions. For a suitable time-evolution law for the probability distribution of the Ising-spins our model describes a quantum field theory for Dirac spinors in external…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-18 C. Wetterich

We make a critical review of the semiclassical interpretation of quantum cosmology and emphasise that it is not necessary to consider that a concept of time emerges only when the gravitational field is (semi)classical. We show that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-12-10 Leonardo Chataignier

This paper theoretically analyzes the behavior of an atom driven by a strong electro-magnetic field. Moreover, besides traditional quantum mechanics method, we also investigate semiclassical approaches to this problem. We first performed…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-11-21 Renjing Xu , Donghao Zhang , Anatoli Kheifets , Igor Ivanov