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We analyze the asymptotic behavior of quantum fields and perturbative quantum gravity in de Sitter space. We show that the necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a de Sitter invariant vacuum state in the free theory is if…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-27 Jonah Kudler-Flam , Kartik Prabhu , Gautam Satishchandran

We study scalar fields subject to an equation of the Klein-Gordon type in nonstationary spacetimes, such as those found in cosmology, assuming that all the relevant spatial dependence is contained in the Laplacian. We show that the field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Laura Castelló Gomar , Guillermo A. Mena Marugán

Deterministic dynamical models are discussed which can be described in quantum mechanical terms. In particular, a local quantum field theory is presented which is a supersymmetric classical model. -- The Hilbert space approach of Koopman…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Hans-Thomas Elze

We propose a new quantum approach for describing a system of $n$ interacting particles with variable mass connected by an unknown field with variable form ($n$-VMVF systems). Instead of assuming any particular nature for variation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-30 Israel A. González Medina

In recent twenty years, loop quantum gravity, a background independent approach to unify general relativity and quantum mechanics, has been widely investigated. We consider the quantum dynamics of a real massless scalar field coupled to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Muxin Han , Yongge Ma

We compute the far-from-equilibrium dynamics of relativistic scalar quantum fields in 3+1 space-time dimensions starting from over-occupied initial conditions. We determine universal scaling exponents and functions for two-point correlators…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-11 Linda Shen , Jürgen Berges

A reformulation of fermionic QFT in electromagnetic backgrounds is presented which uses methods analogous to those of conventional multiparticle quantum mechanics. Emphasis is placed on the (Schr\"odinger picture) states of the system,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Carl E. Dolby , Stephen F. Gull

The need for a cutoff in the Lamb shift calculation suggests that high-energy virtual photons do not interact with real particles. In this paper, we assume that the creation of high-energy virtual particles is suppressed by a Boltzmann…

General Physics · Physics 2020-04-03 Kohzo Nishida

The existence of a fundamental ultraviolet scale, such as the Planck scale, may lead to modifications of the dispersion relations for particles at high energies, in some scenarios of quantum gravity. We apply effective field theory to this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Robert C. Myers , Maxim Pospelov

The Polymer Quantization of the Fourier modes of the real scalar field is studied within algebraic scheme. We replace the positive linear functional of the standard Poincar\'e invariant quantization by a singular one. This singular positive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-11-23 Angel Garcia-Chung , J. David Vergara

Quantum field theory (QFT) describes nature using continuous fields, but physical properties of QFT are usually revealed in terms of measurements of observables at a finite resolution. We describe a multiscale representation of a free…

Generalizing the noncommutative harmonic oscillator construction, we propose a new extension of quantum field theory based on the concept of "noncommutative fields". Our description permits to break the usual particle-antiparticle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 J. M. Carmona , J. L. Cortes , J. Gamboa , F. Mendez

Fock representations are constructed for a free scalar field in the closed and quasi-Euclidean isotropic cosmological models. Invariance of their cyclic vector (vacuum) under isometries and the correspondence principle single out a class of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 K. A. Bronnikov , E. A. Tagirov

Quantum field theory in the $4$-dimensional de Sitter space-time is constructed in the ambient space formalism in a rigorous mathematical framework. This work is based on the group representation theory and the analyticity of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-21 Mohammad Vahid Takook

We explore quantum field theories with fractional d'Alembertian $\Box^\gamma$. Both a scalar field theory with a derivative-dependent potential and gauge theory are super-renormalizable for a fractional power $1<\gamma\leq 2$, one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-06 Gianluca Calcagni , Lesław Rachwał

A general framework of non-perturbative quantum field theory on a curved background is presented. A quantum field theory is in this setting characterised by an embedding of a space of field configurations into a Hilbert space over…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-12-19 Johannes Aastrup , Jesper M. Grimstrup

We revisit the quantum theory of a massive, minimally coupled scalar field, propagating on the Planck-era isotropic cosmological quantum spacetime which transitions to a classical spacetime in later times. The quantum effects modify the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-06 Saeed Rastgoo , Yaser Tavakoli , Julio C. Fabris

The holographic principle suggests that regions of space contain fewer physical degrees of freedom than would be implied by conventional quantum field theory. Meanwhile, in Hilbert spaces of large dimension $2^n$, it is possible to define…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-15 Oliver Friedrich , ChunJun Cao , Sean M. Carroll , Gong Cheng , Ashmeet Singh

A spin one-half particle propagating in a de Sitter background has a one parameter family of states which transform covariantly under the isometry group of the background. These states are the fermionic analogues of the alpha-vacua for a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Hael Collins

We consider quantum field theory in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, with the position coordinates represented by twistors instead of the usual world-vectors. Upon imposing canonical commutation relations between twistors and dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Tomasz R. Taylor