Annals of PhysicsPub Date : 2025-05-10DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2025.170050
Axel Maas, Philipp Schreiner
{"title":"The manifestly gauge-invariant spectrum of the minimal supersymmetric standard model","authors":"Axel Maas, Philipp Schreiner","doi":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170050","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170050","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Formal field theory requires, even in the presence of a Brout-Englert-Higgs effect, to maintain manifest non-perturbative gauge invariance. The Fröhlich-Morchio-Strocchi mechanism allows nonetheless an augmented perturbative treatment. We perform such an augmented tree-level analysis for the minimal supersymmetric standard model. We find that, as for the standard model, corrections to standard perturbation theory are only sub-leading.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8249,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Physics","volume":"479 ","pages":"Article 170050"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144068235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annals of PhysicsPub Date : 2025-05-09DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2025.170082
Zhiyuan Wang , Zijing Zhang
{"title":"Direct characterization of arbitrary qubit systems without auxiliary states","authors":"Zhiyuan Wang , Zijing Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170082","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170082","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Characterization of unknown quantum measurements and quantum states are important tasks in quantum information processing. However, traditional quantum tomography cannot measure arbitrary matrix elements of measurement operators and state density matrices because it requires a global reconstruction algorithm. The direct characterization scheme obtains specific matrix elements without using a global reconstruction algorithm; hence, the scheme has received attention from various researchers. Previous studies have described that direct measurement schemes are based on weak measurements and require the introduction of additional auxiliary states and weak-coupling approximation, which increases the complexity of the practical experimentation and reduces the measurement precision. In this study, we propose a circuit scheme for the direct characterization of positive-operator-valued measure without auxiliary states. In addition, the scheme is suitable for direct measurements of general quantum states. Next, when considering that qubit resources are insufficient, we introduce a coherent superposition state that improves the measurement efficiency in such a case. Finally, we also propose a quantum non-demolition measurement scheme for general quantum states based on the circuit scheme.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8249,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Physics","volume":"479 ","pages":"Article 170082"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143942690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of quintessence dark energy on anisotropic stellar models for Tolman IV metric in Rastall gravity","authors":"Arfa Waseem , T. Chudhary , Faisal Javed , Ertan Güdekli , Bander Almutairi","doi":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170041","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170041","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>One possible tactic to stop compact things from gravitationally collapsing into singularities is dark energy. It has the most effect on the universe since it is the reason behind our universe’s accelerated expansion. Thus, it is conceivable that any compact star object in the universe will interact with dark energy. This manuscript deals with the consequences of quintessence dark energy on the structural attributes of anisotropic compact stellar objects in the scenario of non-conservative gravitational theory. In order to evaluate the field equations of non-conservative theory, Tolman IV metric ansatz is employed coupled with a quintessence dark energy identified by a factor <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>ω</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>q</mi></mrow></msub></math></span> possessing <span><math><mrow><mo>−</mo><mn>1</mn><mo><</mo><msub><mrow><mi>ω</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>q</mi></mrow></msub><mo><</mo><mo>−</mo><mfrac><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow><mrow><mn>3</mn></mrow></mfrac></mrow></math></span>. Utilizing the matching conditions with observed choices of masses and radii of some specific compact star representatives such as PSR J1614-2230, Vela X-1, Her X-1 and Cen X-3, we compute the unknown Tolman IV parameters. Graphically a detailed analysis of the physical properties is provided, including the energy density, quintessence density, pressure components, and stability. Additionally, the matter variables’ radially symmetric profiles are presented. Through the analysis of all these physical aspects, it is demonstrated that the anisotropic compact models are viable and well-stabilized in the Rastall gravity regime with the Tolman IV ansatz. The comparative research also shows that our model is better in line with observational results than the general relativity results for a few choices of the Rastall dimensionless parameter.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8249,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Physics","volume":"479 ","pages":"Article 170041"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143931636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annals of PhysicsPub Date : 2025-05-08DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2025.170047
Aleksei Khindanov , Igor L. Aleiner , Lara Faoro , Lev B. Ioffe
{"title":"Observable measurement-induced transitions","authors":"Aleksei Khindanov , Igor L. Aleiner , Lara Faoro , Lev B. Ioffe","doi":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170047","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170047","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>One of the main postulates of quantum mechanics is that measurements destroy quantum coherence (wave function collapse). Recently it was discovered that in a many-body system dilute local measurements still preserve some coherence across the entire system. As the measurement density is increased, a phase transition occurs that is characterized by the disentanglement of different parts of the system. Unfortunately, this transition is impossible to observe experimentally for macroscopic systems because it requires an exponentially costly full tomography of the many-body wave function or a comparison with the simulation on an oracle classical computer. In this work we report the discovery of another measurement-induced phase transition that can be observed experimentally if quantum dynamics can be reversed. On one side of this phase transition the quantum information encoded in some part of the Hilbert space is fully recovered after the time inversion. On the other side, all quantum information is corrupted. This transition also manifests itself as the change in the behavior of the probability to observe the same measurement outcome in the process that consists of identical blocks repeated many times. In each block the unitary evolution is followed by the measurement. On one side of the transition the probability decreases exponentially with the number of repetitions, on the other it tends to a constant as the number of repetitions is increased. We confirm the existence of the proposed phase transition through numerical simulations of realistic quantum circuits and analytical calculations using an effective random-matrix theory model.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8249,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Physics","volume":"479 ","pages":"Article 170047"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143931637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annals of PhysicsPub Date : 2025-05-08DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2025.170055
E.P. Mattos, A. Vidiella-Barranco
{"title":"Phase-space approach to cavity field dynamics in a squeezed thermal reservoir","authors":"E.P. Mattos, A. Vidiella-Barranco","doi":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170055","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170055","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Quantum systems, such as a single-mode cavity field coupled to a thermal bath, typically experience destructive effects due to interactions with their noisy environment. When the bath combines both thermal fluctuations and a nonclassical feature like quadrature squeezing, forming a squeezed thermal reservoir, the system’s behavior can change substantially. In this work, we study the evolution of the cavity field in this generalized environment using an alternative phase-space approach based on the Glauber–Sudarshan <span><math><mi>P</mi></math></span>-function. We derive a compact analytical expression for the time-dependent <span><math><mi>P</mi></math></span>-function for arbitrary initial cavity field states and demonstrate its utility through specific examples. Additionally, we obtain analytical expressions, as a function of time, for some statistical properties of the cavity field, as well as for the nonclassical depth, <span><math><msub><mrow><mi>τ</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>m</mi></mrow></msub></math></span>, a nonclassicality measure calculated directly from the <span><math><mi>P</mi></math></span>-function.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8249,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Physics","volume":"479 ","pages":"Article 170055"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143937637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annals of PhysicsPub Date : 2025-05-08DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2025.170066
Abdaljalel E. Alizzi , Alina E. Sagaydak , Zurab K. Silagadze
{"title":"Elementary atoms in spaces of constant curvature by the Nikiforov–Uvarov method","authors":"Abdaljalel E. Alizzi , Alina E. Sagaydak , Zurab K. Silagadze","doi":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170066","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170066","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Nikiforov–Uvarov method is a simple, yet elegant and powerful method for solving second-order differential equations of generalized hypergeometric type. In the past, it has been used to solve many problems in quantum mechanics and elsewhere. We apply this method to the classical problem of hydrogen-like atoms in spaces of constant curvature. Both the spectra of these atoms and their wave functions, including normalization, are easily obtained.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8249,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Physics","volume":"479 ","pages":"Article 170066"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143937638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annals of PhysicsPub Date : 2025-05-06DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2025.170051
David Senjaya
{"title":"Chronology Protection Conjecture in the Kerr–Newman black hole spacetime","authors":"David Senjaya","doi":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170051","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170051","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In this work, we investigate the dynamics of relativistic quantum scalar fields inside the inner horizon of the 3+1 dimensional subextremal Kerr–Newman black hole, where closed timelike curves (CTCs) exist. We start by constructing the governing Klein–Gordon equation in the black hole background and present the derivation to obtain analytical exact solutions in detail. Thanks to the recent developments of the Heun-family special functions, we can express the exact Klein–Gordon’s radial solutions in terms of the Confluent Heun functions. The scalar fields’ relativistic energy quantization is then obtained from the Confluent Heun function’s polynomial condition. The complex eigenenergies with positive real part, in the region inside the inner horizon of the charged rotating black hole, are found to have a positive imaginary part, describing states that grow in time. It turns out that the revealed phenomena of instabilities follow Hawking’s prediction, known as the Chronology Protection Conjecture (CPC), i.e., fields of particles entering the aforementioned region will experience blue-shifting. In this work, it is for the first time that an exact investigation is carried out to examine Hawking’s Chronology Protection Conjecture (CPC) by investigating the exact eigensolutions of the Klein–Gordon equation in the region inside the inner horizon of a subextremal Kerr–Newman black hole.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8249,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Physics","volume":"479 ","pages":"Article 170051"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143937636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annals of PhysicsPub Date : 2025-05-05DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2025.170053
Ipsita Mandal
{"title":"Transmission through rectangular potentials in semimetals featuring quadratic dispersion","authors":"Ipsita Mandal","doi":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170053","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170053","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We revisit the problem of transmission of quasiparticles through a rectangular potential barrier, for semimetals featuring quadratic-in-momentum band-crossings at a nodal point. Although this was considered in Mandal (2020), the solutions corresponding to evanescent waves were missed, leading to a partial fulfilment of the boundary conditions required to determine the piecewise-continuous wavefunctions. In this paper, our aim is to correct those shortcomings, recompute the transmission coefficients, and show the resulting behaviour of the conductivity and the Fano factors for some representative parameter values.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8249,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Physics","volume":"479 ","pages":"Article 170053"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143942693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annals of PhysicsPub Date : 2025-05-04DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2025.170049
H.P. Zhang, Z. Song
{"title":"Dynamic Moiré-like pattern in non-Hermitian Wannier–Stark ladder system","authors":"H.P. Zhang, Z. Song","doi":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170049","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170049","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We study the dynamical behavior of the non-Hermitian Wannier–Stark ladder system, which is a non-Hermitian Su–Schrieffer–Heeger chain with a position-dependent real potential. In the presence of a linear external field, we employ the non-Hermitian Floquet method and find that the energy levels are sensitive to the field. The system exhibits two distinct dynamic behaviors separated by an exceptional point: one in the <span><math><mi>PT</mi></math></span> symmetrical region associated with two real Wannier–Stark ladders, and another in the <span><math><mi>PT</mi></math></span> symmetry-breaking region associated with complex conjugate ladders. As the boundary between the two regions, two ladders coalesce into a single ladder. In the case of a non-linear field, these two distinct regions appear alternately along the chain, exhibiting dynamic Moiré-like patterns.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8249,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Physics","volume":"479 ","pages":"Article 170049"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143905988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Annals of PhysicsPub Date : 2025-04-30DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2025.170031
R. Wieser , R. Sánchez Galán
{"title":"Investigation of the spin dynamics of quantum spin dimers with Dzyaloshinsky–Moriya interaction","authors":"R. Wieser , R. Sánchez Galán","doi":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170031","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.aop.2025.170031","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We investigate the ground state configuration and spin dynamics of a quantum spin spiral dimer when a magnetic field is applied to one of its constituent spins. By adiabatic changing the magnetic field, it is possible to change the non-magnetic ground state to a classical spiral state, which oscillates periodically to its inverted classical spiral state configuration. This oscillation can be halted at any time, leading to the possibility of manipulating the quantum state and the magnetic configuration of the spin dimer. Notably, this idea is not limited to spin dimers and can also be extended to quantum spin chains with an even number of spins.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8249,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Physics","volume":"479 ","pages":"Article 170031"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143899190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}