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We consider a stochastic lattice Cahn-Hilliard equation with nonautonomous nonlinear noise. First, we prove the existence of pullback random attractors in $\ell^2$ for the generated nonautonomous random dynamical system. Then, we construct…

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Using general features of recent quantizations of the Hamiltonian constraint in loop quantum gravity and loop quantum cosmology, a dynamical interpretation of the constraint equation as evolution equation is presented. This involves a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Martin Bojowald

The dynamics of a quantum system coupled to a classical environment and subject to constraints that drive it out of equilibrium is described. The evolution of the system is governed by the quantum-classical Liouville equation. Rather than…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-15 Jeremy Schofield , Raymond Kapral

In this paper, time-independent Hamiltonian systems are investigated via a Lie-group/algebra formalism. The (unknown) solution linked with the Hamiltonian is considered to be a Lie-group transformation of the initial data, where the group…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-08-10 Sébastien Bertrand

Time evolution of macroscopic systems is re-examined primarily through further analysis and extension of the equation of motion for the density matrix $\rho(t)$. Because $\rho$ contains both classical and quantum-mechanical probabilities it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. T. Grandy

We propose to experimentally test non-deterministic time evolution in quantum mechanics by consecutive measurements of non-commuting observables on the same prepared state. While in the standard theory the measurement outcomes are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-02 Sabine Hossenfelder

This paper analyzes effects of time-dependence in the Bell inequality. A generalized inequality is derived for the case when coincidence and non-coincidence [and hence whether or not a pair contributes to the actual data] is controlled by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-16 Jan-Åke Larsson , Richard Gill

We study the classical and quantum dynamics of generally covariant theories with vanishing a Hamiltonian and with a finite number of degrees of freedom. In particular, the geometric meaning of the full solution of the relational evolution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Merced Montesinos

In Liouville formalism the expression for density matrix, determining the time evolution of unstable $\pi^{\pm}$ - meson in the framework of unified formulation of quantum and kinetic dynamics is defined. The eigenvalues problem is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 S. Eh. Shirmovsky

It is shown that the application of Lax-Phillips scattering theory to quantum mechanics provides a natural framework for the realization of the ideas of the Many-Hilbert-Space theory of Machida and Namiki to describe the development of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-22 S. Tasaki , E. Eisenberg , L. P. Horwitz

A practical way to deal with the problem of time in quantum cosmology and quantum gravity is proposed. The main tool is effective equations, which mainly restrict explicit considerations to semiclassical regimes but have the crucial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-20 Martin Bojowald , Philipp A Hoehn , Artur Tsobanjan

We characterize good clocks, which are naturally subject to fluctuations, in statistical terms. We also obtain the master equation that governs the evolution of quantum systems according to these clocks and find its general solution. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Inigo L. Egusquiza , Luis J. Garay , Jose M. Raya

We show that the emergence of time evolution in an otherwise timeless nonrelativistic closed quantum system -- viewed as a poor man's model of generally covariant quantum theory -- can be understood from the perspective of the path integral…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-19 Juan Manuel Diaz , Alejandro Perez

We propose an operator constraint equation for the wavefunction of the Universe that admits genuine evolution. While the corresponding classical theory is equivalent to the canonical decomposition of General Relativity, the quantum theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-04-03 Sean Gryb , Karim Thebault

We report on a time regularity result for stochastic evolutionary PDEs with monotone coefficients. If the diffusion coefficient is bounded in time without additional space regularity we obtain a fractional Sobolev type time regularity of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-10-07 Dominic Breit , Martina Hofmanova

The treatment of time in relativity does not conform to that in quantum theory. In the context of quantum gravity this is called "the problem of time". A crucial difference is that time $t$ may be seen as an observable in relativity theory,…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2024-11-12 Per Östborn

We present models in which the indeterministic feature of Quantum Mechanics is represented in the form of definite physical mechanisms. Our way is completely different from so-called hidden parameter models, namely, we start from a certain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jiri Soucek

For a system consisting of a large collection of particles, a set of variables that will generally become effectively classical are the local densities (number, momentum, energy). That is, in the context of the decoherent histories approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. J. Halliwell

In this paper, we further develop a recently proposed theory of time based on wavefunction collapse in general relativity. It is based on the postulations that quantum states, which violate the momentum and Hamiltonian constraints,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-23 Sung-Sik Lee

We report on a study of the dynamics of decoherence of a matter-wave interferometer, consisting of a pair of low-dimensional cold atom condensates at finite temperature. We identify two distinct regimes in the time dependence of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Burkov , M. D. Lukin , Eugene Demler