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A new kind of gauge theory is introduced, where the minimal coupling and corresponding covariant derivatives are defined in the space of functions pertaining to the functional Schroedinger picture of a given field theory. While, for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Hans-Thomas Elze

We describe here what appears to be a new structure that is hidden in all asymptotically vanishing Maxwell fields possessing a non-vanishing total charge. Though we are dealing with real Maxwell fields on real Minkowski space nevertheless,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Carlos Kozameh , E. T. Newman , Gilberto Silva-Ortigoza

We review some recent developments in nonperturbative studies of quantum field theory (QFT) using the Schwinger-Dyson equations formulated directly in Minkowski space. We begin with the introduction of essential ideas of the integral…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 Vladimir Sauli

The Projection Postulate from Standard Quantum Mechanics relies fundamentally on measurements. But measurements implicitly suggest the existence of anthropocentric notions like measuring devices, which should rather emerge from the theory.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-26 Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica

We study the ground state problem of the nonlinear Schrodinger functional with a mass-critical inhomogeneous nonlinear term. We provide the optimal condition for the existence of ground states and show that in the critical focusing regime…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-05-02 Thanh Viet Phan

This thesis explores Quantum Field Theory (QFT) on curved spacetimes using a geometric Hamiltonian approach to the Schr\"odinger-like representation. In particular it studies the theory of the scalar field described through its…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 David Martínez-Crespo

We give a complete characterization of the (non)classicality of all stabilizer subtheories. First, we prove that there is a unique nonnegative and diagram-preserving quasiprobability representation of the stabilizer subtheory in all odd…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-28 David Schmid , Haoxing Du , John H. Selby , Matthew F. Pusey

An alternative representation of the kernel of the evolution operator in quantum electrodynamics is obtained in the form of a functional integral, in which the gauge momentum corresponding to the Gaussian constraint is excluded from the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-21 Natalia Gorobey , Alexander Lukyanenko , A. V. Goltsev

This article sets out the framework of algebraic quantum field theory in curved spacetimes, based on the idea of local covariance. In this framework, a quantum field theory is modelled by a functor from a category of spacetimes to a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-04-03 Christopher J. Fewster , Rainer Verch

The uniqueness of the positive ground state solutions of fractional Shrodinger equations with a harmonic potential has not been covered by the breakthrough method developed in [1, 2]. It has remained an open question for years. [3] and [5]…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-13 H. Hajaiej , L. Song

We investigate the existence of ground state solutions for a class of nonlinear scalar field equations defined on whole real line, involving a fractional Laplacian and nonlinearities with Trudinger-Moser critical growth. We handle the lack…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-08-08 João Marcos do Ó , Olímpio H. Miyagaki , Marco Squassina

In this paper we propose an algebraic formulation of group field theory and consider non-Fock representations based on coherent states. We show that we can construct representations with infinite number of degrees of freedom on compact base…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-13 Alexander Kegeles , Daniele Oriti , Casey Tomlin

In this paper we will analyze the the status of gauge freedom in quantum mechanics (QM) and quantum field theory (QFT). Along with this analysis comparison with ordinary QFT will be given. We will show how the gauge freedom problem is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jaroslaw Wawrzycki

Using the Klauder approach the stable evolution of generalized coherent states (GCS) for some groups (SU(2), SU(1,1) and SU(N)) is considered and it is shown that one and the same classical solution z(t) can correctly characterize the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. A. Nikolov , D. A. Trifonov

In this second in a series of four articles we create a mathematical formalism sufficient to represent nontrivial hamiltonian quantum dynamics, including resonances. Some parts of this construction are also mathematically necessary. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-08-13 S. Maxson

Normalized ground state solutions (NGSS) of Schrodinger equations (SE) have attracted the attention of many research groups during the last decades. This is essentially due to their relevance in many fields in physics and engineering, where…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-11-29 Hichem Hajaiej , Linjie Song

A new representation -which is similar to the Bargmann representation- of the creation and annihilation operators is introduced, in which the operators act like "multiplication with" and like "derivation with respect to" a single real…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Enore Guadagnini

In this letter, the number-phase entropic uncertainty relation and the number-phase Wigner function of generalized coherent states associated to a few solvable quantum systems with nondegenerate spectra are studied. We also investigate time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-30 G. R. Honarasa , M. K. Tavassoly , M. Hatami

Motivated by cosmological Hartle-Hawking and microcanonical density matrix prescriptions for the quantum state of the Universe we develop Schwinger-Keldysh in-in formalism for generic nonequilibrium dynamical systems with the initial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-08 Andrei O. Barvinsky , Nikita Kolganov

In this and companion papers, 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 quantization of electromagnetism permits the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-19 David E. Kaplan , Tom Melia , Surjeet Rajendran