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We have shown an example of semiclassical transition in \phi^4 model with positive coupling constant. This process describes a semiclassical transition between two coherent states with much smaller average number of particles in the initial…

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We show that the Schr\"odinger equation can be solved exactly based only on classical least action. Fundamental postulates of quantum mechanics can in turn be derived directly from this construction. The results extend to the relativistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Winfried Lohmiller , Jean-Jacques Slotine

We construct physical semi-classical states annihilated by the Hamiltonian constraint operator in the framework of loop quantum cosmology as a method of systematically determining the regime and validity of the semi-classical limit of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Parampreet Singh , Kevin Vandersloot

Stationary-state Schr{\"o}dinger-Pauli theory is a description of electrons with a spin moment in an external electromagnetic field. For 2-electron systems as described by the Schr{\"o}dinger-Pauli theory Hamiltonian with a symmetrical…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-03-02 Marlina Slamet , Viraht Sahni

This paper deals with the treatment of quantum interferences in the semiclassical initial value theory of rotationally inelastic scattering in the interaction picture [C. W. McCurdy and W. H. Miller, J. Chem. Phys. 67, 463 (1977)]. It is…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Laurent Bonnet

We analyze a class of quantum operations based on a geometrical representation of $d-$level quantum system (or qudit for short). A sufficient and necessary condition of complete positivity, expressed in terms of the quantum Fourier…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Runyao Duan , Zhengfeng Ji , Yuan Feng , Mingsheng Ying

It is shown that in semi-classical electrodynamics, which describes how electrically charged particles move according to the laws of quantum mechanics under the influence of a prescribed classical electromagnetic field, only a restricted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 A M Stewart

We consider a nonlinear semi-classical Schrodinger equation for which it is known that quadratic oscillations lead to focusing at one point, described by a nonlinear scattering operator. If the initial data is an energy bounded sequence, we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Remi Carles , Clotilde Fermanian-Kammerer , Isabelle Gallagher

States supported by chaotic open quantum systems fall into two categories: a majority showing instantaneous ballistic decay, and a set of quantum resonances of classically vanishing support in phase space. We present a theory describing…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-12 T. Micklitz , A. Altland

We present a perturbation analysis of the semiclassical Wigner equation which is based on the interplay between configuration and phase spaces via Wigner transform. We employ the so-called harmonic approximation of the Schrodinger…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-25 E. K. Kalligiannaki , G. N. Makrakis

Multi-time wave functions such as $\phi(t_1,x_1,\ldots,t_N,x_N)$ have one time variable $t_j$ for each particle. This type of wave function arises as a relativistic generalization of the wave function $\psi(t,x_1,\ldots,x_N)$ of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-28 Sören Petrat , Roderich Tumulka

A calculation of the classical analogue for the quantum wave function and local denity of states, in energy representation, is presented for simple Hamiltonian systems. Sucha analogous were proposed by M. V. Berry and A. voros considering…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-12-24 H. Hernández-Saldaña

We employ a self consistent framework to study the backreaction effects of particle creation in the coupled semiclassical dynamics of a quantum complex scalar field and a classical electric field in both (1 + 1) and (1 + 3) dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-26 Shagun Kaushal , Suprit Singh

In non-relativistic quantum mechanics of $N$ particles in three spatial dimensions, the wave function $\psi(q_1,\ldots,q_N,t)$ is a function of $3N$ position coordinates and one time coordinate. It is an obvious idea that in a relativistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Matthias Lienert , Sören Petrat , Roderich Tumulka

The essentials of quantum theory, the Schr\"odinger equation and the Planck constant, are derived using classical statistical mechanics within the non-local Machan model. The appearance of complex wave function is connected with the…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-17 Merab Gogberashvili

We derive a semi-classical nonequilibrium work identity by applying the Wigner-Weyl quantization scheme to the Jarzynski identity for a classical Hamiltonian. This allows us, to the leading order in $\hbar$, to overcome the problem of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-25 O. Brodier , K. Mallick , A. M. Ozorio de Almeida

We consider the quantum kinetic-theory description for interacting massive spin-half fermions using the Wigner function formalism. We derive a general kinetic theory description assuming that the spin effects appear at the classical and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-11 Arpan Das , Wojciech Florkowski , Avdhesh Kumar , Radoslaw Ryblewski , Rajeev Singh

In quantum mechanics, the wavefunction predicts probabilities of possible measurement outcomes, but not which individual outcome is realised in each run of an experiment. This suggests that it describes an ensemble of states with different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Jonte R. Hance , Sabine Hossenfelder

We present several ideas in direction of physical interpretation of $q$- and $f$-oscillators as a nonlinear oscillators. First we show that an arbitrary one dimensional integrable system in action-angle variables can be naturally…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 Oktay K. Pashaev

The quantum mechanical description of the evolution of an unstable system defined initially as a state in a Hilbert space at a given time does not provide a semigroup (exponential) decay law. The Wigner-Weisskopf survival amplitude,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Y. Strauss , L. P. Horwitz