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We consider hamiltonian models representing an arbitrary number of spin $1/2$ fermion quantum fields interacting through arbitrary processes of creation or annihilation of particles. The fields may be massive or massless. The interaction…

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We describe here a novel way of defining Hamiltonians for quantum field theories (QFTs), based on the particle-position representation of the state vector and involving a condition on the state vector that we call an "interior-boundary…

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We present a general framework to calculate the properties of relativistic compound systems from the knowledge of an elementary Hamiltonian. Our framework provides a well-controlled nonperturbative calculational scheme which can be…

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We study the Fock quantization of a free Dirac field in 2+1-dimensional backgrounds which are conformally ultrastatic, with a time-dependent conformal factor. As it is typical for field theories, there is an infinite ambiguity in the Fock…

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The main fundamental principles characterizing the vacuum field structure are formulated and the modeling of the related vacuum medium and charged point particle dynamics by means of devised field theoretic tools are analyzed. The work is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-27 Nikolai N. Bogolubov, , Anatoliy K. Prykarpatsky

Explicit realizations of quantum field theory (QFT) are admitted by a revision to the Wightman axioms for the vacuum expectation values (VEV) of fields. The technical development of QFT is expanded beyond positive functionals on *-algebras…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-10-02 Glenn Eric Johnson

In physics, experiments ultimately inform us as to what constitutes a good theoretical model of any physical concept: physical space should be no exception. The best picture of physical space in Newtonian physics is given by the…

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This work introduces a novel approach to quantum simulation by leveraging continuous-variable systems within a photonic hardware-inspired framework. The primary focus is on simulating static properties of the ground state of Hamiltonians…

We investigate the quantum-mechanical interpretation of models with non-Hermitian Hamiltonians and real spectra. After describing a general framework to reformulate such models in terms of Hermitian Hamiltonians defined on the Hilbert space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Kretschmer , L. Szymanowski

Generalized Fourier transformation between the position and the momentum representation of a quantum state is constructed in a coordinate independent way. The only ingredient of this construction is the symplectic (canonical) geometry of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-14 Witold Chmielowiec , Jerzy Kijowski

The nonperturbative Hamiltonian eigenvalue problem for bound states of a quantum field theory is formulated in terms of Dirac's light-front coordinates and then approximated by the exponential-operator technique of the many-body…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 J. R. Hiller

We present a general procedure for constructing new Hilbert spaces for loop quantum gravity on non-compact spatial manifolds. Given any fixed background state representing a non-compact spatial geometry, we use the Gel'fand-Naimark-Segal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Matthias Arnsdorf , Sameer Gupta

A field-theoretic formulation of the exponential-operator technique is applied to a Hamiltonian eigenvalue problem in electrodynamics, quantized in light-front coordinates. Specifically, we consider the dressed-electron state, without…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-27 S. S. Chabysheva

Canonical formulation of quantum field theory on the Light Front (LF) is reviewed. The problem of constructing the LF Hamiltonian which gives the theory equivalent to original Lorentz and gauge invariant one is considered. We describe…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Franke , Yu. V. Novozhilov , S. A. Paston , E. V. Prokhvatilov

We propose a generalization of Heisenberg picture quantum mechanics in which a Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics is formulated directly for dynamical systems on a manifold with non--commuting coordinates, which act as operators on an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 Stephen L. Adler

We constructed a Hilbert space representation of a contextual Kolmogorov model. This representation is based on two fundamental observables -- in the standard quantum model these are position and momentum observables. This representation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Andrei Khrennikov

We present a general framework to study relativistic compound systems in a Hamiltonian formalism. This formalism is based on the explicitly covariant formulation of light-front dynamics, with a decomposition of the state vector in Fock…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-03 Jean-Francois Mathiot

My thesis contains an introduction to Light-front Hamiltonian field theory and updates of published articles: - "Equivalence of Covariant and Light-Front Perturbation Theory" (hep-ph/9702311 and hep-ph/9806365, N. C. J. Schoonderwoerd and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 Nico Schoonderwoerd

We propose a new quantum approach for describing a system of $n$ interacting particles with variable mass connected by an unknown field with variable form ($n$-VMVF systems). Instead of assuming any particular nature for variation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-30 Israel A. González Medina

In this paper we study the Hilbert space structure underlying the Koopman-von Neumann (KvN) operatorial formulation of classical mechanics. KvN limited themselves to study the Hilbert space of zero-forms that are the square integrable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 E. Deotto , E. Gozzi , D. Mauro