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We argue that the hierarchy problem of the standard model of particle physics can be solved by adding a state-dependent term to the Higgs sector. We present an example of a scalar field with a Higgs-like potential with an additional term…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-15 David E. Kaplan , Surjeet Rajendran

We consider the probabilistic description of nonrelativistic, spinless one-particle classical mechanics, and immerse the particle in a deformed noncommutative phase space in which position coordinates do not commute among themselves and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-27 B. Muthukumar

The relativistic quantum phase space (QPS) formalism extends classical phase space by incorporating both mean values and variance-covariance matrices of quantum states, thereby providing a unified setting where the uncertainty principle and…

We apply the supersymmetry approach to one-dimensional quantum systems with spatially-dependent mass, by including their ordering ambiguities dependence. In this way we extend the results recently reported in the literature. Furthermore, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 A. de Souza Dutra , Marcelo Hott , C. A. S. Almeida

The definition of mass of a scalar field in a curved space has often been generalized by grouping coupling terms between the field and the Ricci curvature with non-curvature-related mass terms. In a broader point of view, one sees that a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 V. Faraoni , F. I. Cooperstock

This thesis investigates how the metric and tetrad formulations of three gravitational field theories in manifolds with timelike boundaries within the covariant phase space program. With the recently developed relative bicomplex framework,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-31 Valle Varo

Physical systems with non-reciprocal or dissipative forces evolve according to a generalization of Liouville's equation that accounts for the expansion and contraction of phase space volume. Here, we connect geometric descriptions of these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-05-27 Mohamed Sahbani , Swetamber Das , Jason R. Green

In classical statistical mechanics, the partition function is defined in phase space. We extend this concept to quantum statistical mechanics using Bohmian trajectories. The quantum partition function in phase space captures the ensemble of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Bingyu Cui

Quantum mechanics, one of the most successful theories in the history of science, was created to account for physical systems not describable by classical physics. Though it is consistent with all experiments conducted thus far, many of its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Gary Oas , J. Acacio de Barros

We explore the notion of spatial extent and structure, already alluded to in earlier literature, within the formulation of quantum mechanics on the noncommutative plane. Introducing the notion of average position and its measurement, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 C M Rohwer , K G Zloshchastiev , L Gouba , F G Scholtz

To enhance the consistency between the quantum descriptions of waves and particles, we quantise mechanical point particles in this paper in the same physically-motivated way as we previously quantised light in quantum electrodynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Arwa Bukhari , Daniel Hodgson , Sara Kanzi , Robert Purdy , Almut Beige

The quark-lepton mass problem and the ideas of mass protection are reviewed. The hierarchy problem and suggestions for its resolution, including Little Higgs models, are discussed. The Multiple Point Principle is introduced and used within…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 C. D. Froggatt

The alternative to the standard formulation of QPM in the infinite momentum frame is suggested. The proposed approach does not require any extra assumptions in addition, consistently takes into account the parton transversal momenta and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-24 P. Zavada

We construct a class of systems for which quantum dynamics can be expanded around a mean field approximation with essentially classical content. The modulus of the quantum overlap of mean field states naturally introduces a classical…

A mechanism to have the quark mass hierarchy in the supersymmetric composite model is proposed. The source of the hierarchy is the kinetic-term mixing between composite quarks. Such mixing can be expected, if quarks are composite particles.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Noriaki Kitazawa

The concept of mass was introduced as a mathematical abstraction and unifying principle in physics by Newton in the 17th century, and calibrated on a Solar System scale by Cavendish at the end of the 18th century. In the 19th century, this…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2023-06-21 Robert A. Wilson

In this contribution, we suggest the approach that geometric concepts ought to be defined in terms of physical operations involving quantum matter. In this way it is expected that some (presumably nocive) idealizations lying deep within the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-07-24 C. Chryssomalakos , H. Hernandez-Coronado , E. Okon

How can one fully harness the power of physics encoded in relativistic $N$-body phase space? Topologically, phase space is isomorphic to the product space of a simplex and a hypersphere and can be equipped with explicit coordinates and a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-26 Tianji Cai , Junyi Cheng , Nathaniel Craig , Giacomo Koszegi , Andrew J. Larkoski

The quark dynamics inside light mesons, except pseudoscalar ones, can be quite well described by a spinless Salpeter equation supplemented by a Cornell interaction (possibly partly vector, partly scalar). A mass formula for these mesons can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Brau , C. Semay

We investigate the influence of chiral symmetry which varies along the space-time evolution of the system by considering the chiral phase transition in an non-equilibrium expanding quark-antiquark system. The chiral symmetry is described by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-13 Ziyue Wang , Shuzhe Shi , Pengfei Zhuang