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Recently, it is shown that, the quantum effects of matter are well described by the conformal degree of freedom of the space-time metric. On the other hand, it is a wellknown fact that according to Einstein's gravity theory, gravity and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Ali Shojai

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 geometric form of standard quantum mechanics is compatible with the two postulates: 1) The laws of physics are invariant under the choice of experimental setup and 2) Every quantum observation or event is intrinsically statistical.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Djordje Minic , Chia-Hsiung Tze

It is shown that the recently geometric formulation of quantum mechanics implies the use of Weyl geometry. It is discussed that the natural framework for both gravity and quantum is Weyl geometry. At the end a Weyl invariant theory is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Fatimah Shojai , Ali Shojai

Noether's theorem is a fundamental result in physics stating that every symmetry of the dynamics implies a conservation law. It is, however, deficient in several respects: (i) it is not applicable to dynamics wherein the system interacts…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-16 Iman Marvian , Robert W. Spekkens

The geometric formulation of quantum mechanics is a very interesting field of research which has many applications in the emerging field of quantum computation and quantum information, such as schemes for optimal quantum computers. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-24 Ole Andersson , Hoshang Heydari

In asymptotically Minkowski space-times, one finds a surprisingly rich interplay between geometry and physics in both the classical and quantum regimes. On the mathematical side it involves null geometry, infinite dimensional groups,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-29 Abhay Ashtekar

We show how to formulate physical theory taking as a starting point the set of states (geometric approach). We discuss the relation of this formulation to the conventional approach to classical and quantum mechanics and the theory of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-24 Albert Schwarz

Quantum geometry governs a wide range of transport and optical phenomena in quantum materials. Recent works have explored analogue electromagnetism and gravity in terms of the quantum geometric tensor, whose real and imaginary parts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Luca Maranzana , Koki Shinada , Ying-Ming Xie , Sergey Artyukhin , Naoto Nagaosa

Quantum geometry, i.e., the quantum theory of intrinsic and extrinsic spatial geometry, is a cornerstone of loop quantum gravity. Recently, there have been many new ideas in this field, and I will review some of them. In particular, after a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Hanno Sahlmann

General relativity promotes space-time to a physical, dynamical object subject to equations of motion. Quantum gravity, accordingly, must provide a quantum framework for space-time, applicable on the smallest distance scales. Just like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-15 Martin Bojowald

The properties which give quantum mechanics its unique character - unitarity, complementarity, non-commutativity, uncertainty, nonlocality - derive from the algebraic structure of Hermitian operators acting on the wavefunction in complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Tim Palmer

A quantum version of the action principle in a simple covariant dynamical theory of two relativistic particles is formulated. The central object of this new formulation of quantum theory is a stationary eigenvalue of the quantum action.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-10 N. Gorobey , A. Lukyanenko , I. Lukyanenko

In homogeneous cosmologies, quantum geometry effects lead to a resolution of the classical singularity without having to invoke special boundary conditions at the singularity or introduce ad-hoc elements such as unphysical matter. The same…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-29 Abhay Ashtekar , Martin Bojowald

General relativity successfully describes space-times at scales that we can observe and probe today, but it cannot be complete as a consequence of singularity theorems. For a long time there have been indications that quantum gravity will…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Bojowald

Standard quantum mechanics and gravity are used to estimate the mass and size of idealized gravitating systems where position states of matter and geometry become indeterminate. It is proposed that well-known inconsistencies of standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-05 Craig J. Hogan

Standard particle theory is based on quantized matter embedded in a classical geometry. Here, a complementary model is proposed, based on classical matter -- massive bodies, without quantum properties -- embedded in a quantum geometry. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-26 Craig Hogan

Quantum geometry is a differential geometry based on quantum mechanics. It is related to various transport and optical properties in condensed matter physics. The Zeeman quantum geometry is a generalization of quantum geometry including the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-16 Motohiko Ezawa

The geometro-stochastic method of quantization provides a framework for quantum general relativity, in which the principal frame bundles of local Lorentz frames that underlie the fibre-theoretical approach to classical general relativity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Eduard Prugovecki

Quantum groups emerged in the latter quarter of the 20th century as, on the one hand, a deep and natural generalisation of symmetry groups for certain integrable systems, and on the other as part of a generalisation of geometry itself…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 S. Majid