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In the three-dimensional anti-de Sitter spacetime/two-dimensional conformal field theory correspondence, we derive the imaginary-time path-integral of a non-relativistic particle in the anti-de Sitter bulk space, which is dual to the ground…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-22 Eiji Konishi

We explore Schwinger effect of spin 1/2 charged particles with static electric field in 1+3 dimensional de Sitter spacetime. We analytically calculate the vacuum expectation value of the spinor current which is induced by the produced…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-20 Takahiro Hayashinaka , Tomohiro Fujita , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

We discuss two distinct operator-theoretic settings useful for describing (or defining) propagators associated with a scalar Klein-Gordon field on a Lorentzian manifold $M$. Typically, we assume that $M$ is globally hyperbolic. The term…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Jan Dereziński , Christian Gaß

A propagator for the one dimensional time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation with an asymmetric rectangular potential is obtained using the multiple-scattering theory approach. It allows for the consideration of the reflection and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-10 Victor F. Los , Mykola "Nicholas" V. Los

We discuss the effective infrared theory governing a light scalar's long wavelength dynamics in de Sitter spacetime. We show how the separation of scales around the physical curvature radius $k/a \sim H$ can be performed consistently with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-10 Ian Moss , Gerasimos Rigopoulos

We consider particle production in $1+1$ dimensional thermal Anti-de Sitter space under the influence of a constant electric field. The vacuum-persistence amplitude is given by a non-relativistic tunnelling instanton once we interpret the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-04-24 Prasant Samantray , Suprit Singh

We consider scalar field theory in de Sitter space with a general vacuum invariant under the continuously connected symmetries of the de Sitter group. We begin by reviewing approaches to define this as a perturbative quantum field theory.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Kevin Goldstein , David A. Lowe

We investigate particle production \`a la Schwinger mechanism in an expanding, flat de Sitter patch as is relevant for the inflationary epoch of our universe. Defining states and particle content in curved spacetime is certainly not a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-11 Ramkishor Sharma , Suprit Singh

We study the propagation of quantum fields on $\kappa$-Minkowsi spacetime. Starting from the non-commutative partition function for a free field written in momentum space we derive the Feynman propagator and analyze the non-trivial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-05 Michele Arzano , Luca Tiberio Consoli

We present, from first principles, a direct method for evaluating the exact fermion propagator in the presence of a general background field at finite temperature, which can be used to determine the finite temperature effective action for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 Ashok Das , J. Frenkel

This note is an introduction to methods of construction for Hilbert space realizations of relativistic quantum physics. The realizations satisfy a revision to Wightman's functional analytic axioms and exhibit interaction in physical…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-03-03 Glenn Eric Johnson

The effective potential is a widely used phenomenological tool to investigate phase transitions occurring in the early Universe at finite temperature. In the standard perturbative treatment the potential becomes complex in some region of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-10 Károly Seller

We study the one-loop radiative corrections for massless fermions in de Sitter space induced by a Yukawa coupling to a light, nearly minimally coupled scalar field. We show that the fermions acquire a mass. Next we construct the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Bjorn Garbrecht , Tomislav Prokopec

We study a claimed new mechanism for particle production and black hole evaporation through a spatially dependent temperature. This new temperature is comparable to the Hawking result near the black hole, but is very small far away, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-09 Mark P. Hertzberg , Abraham Loeb

Recently in [Phys. Rev. D $99$ $(2019)$ 104010] the non-relativistic Feynman propagator for harmonic oscillator system is presented when the generalized uncertainty principle is employed. In this short comment it is shown that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 DaeKil Park , Eylee Jung

We solve the time-dependent Fokker-Planck equation for a two-dimensional active Brownian particle exploring a circular region with an absorbing boundary. Using the passive Brownian particle as basis states and dealing with the activity as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-23 Francesco Di Trapani , Thomas Franosch , Michele Caraglio

It was recently noted that the on-shell Einstein-Hilbert action with York-Gibbons-Hawking boundary term has an imaginary part, proportional to the area of the codimension-2 surfaces on which the boundary normal becomes null. We discuss the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-09-13 Norbert Bodendorfer , Yasha Neiman

We {\em derive} the exact configuration space path integral, together with the way how to evaluate it, from the Hamiltonian approach for any quantum mechanical system in flat spacetime whose Hamiltonian has at most two momentum operators.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Skenderis , P. van Nieuwenhuizen

This paper derives the Feynman rules for the diagrammatic perturbation expansion of the effective action around an arbitrary solvable problem. The perturbation expansion around a Gaussian theory is well known and composed of one-line…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-14 Tobias Kühn , Moritz Helias

We consider a charged scalar field in a $D$-dimensional de Sitter spacetime and investigate pair creation by a Schwinger mechanism in a constant electric field background. Using a semiclassical approximation the current of the created pairs…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-01-11 Ehsan Bavarsad , Clément Stahl , She-Sheng Xue