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The free energy due to the vacuum fluctuations of matter fields on a classical gravitational background is discussed. It is shown explicitly how this energy is calculated for a non-minimally coupled scalar field in an arbitrary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Karsten Bormann , Frank Antonsen

The anti self-adjoint operators of imaginary coordinate and momentum, together with the self-adjoint operators of real coordinate, momentum, energy and time are used in construction of the quantum field theory in operator form. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-15 Slobodan Prvanovic

In this paper we will consider quantum aspects of a non-local, infinite-derivative scalar field theory - a $\it toy \, model$ depiction of a covariant infinite-derivative, non-local extension of Einstein's general relativity which has…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-09 Spyridon Talaganis , Tirthabir Biswas , Anupam Mazumdar

A class of interacting classical random fields is constructed using deformed *-algebras of creation and annihilation operators. The fields constructed are classical random field versions of "Lie fields". A vacuum vector is used to construct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-15 Peter Morgan

The focusing of the vacuum modes of a quantized field by a parabolic mirror is investigated. We use a geometric optics approximation to calculate the energy density and mean squared field averages for scalar and electromagnetic fields near…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 L. H. Ford , N. F. Svaiter

A random field that is empirically equivalent to the quantized electromagnetic field is constructed. A mapping between the creation and annihilation operator algebras of a random field and of the quantized electromagnetic field provides a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-11 Peter Morgan

This work proposes a reconstruction of the quantum field theory (QFT) scattering framework: the path integral governs an interaction kernel region, while the Hilbert space encodes asymptotic free boundary conditions. We critically reexamine…

General Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Xinmu Zong , Chunyu Huang

We offer a clear physical explanation for the emergence of the quantum operator formalism, by revisiting the role of the vacuum field in quantum mechanics. The vacuum or random zero-point radiation field has been shown previously, using the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-25 Ana María Cetto , Luis de la Peña , Andrea Valdés-Hernández

We introduce the notion of background independent quantum field theory. The distinguishing feature of this theory is that the dynamics can be formulated without recourse to a background metric structure. We show in a simple model how the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Olaf Dreyer

In this note, we describe how the study of backgrounds for general quantum systems can be formulated in terms of the representation theory of abstract $C^*$ algebras. We illustrate our general framework through two example systems:…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-15 Marc Klinger

We performed a Lorentz covariant quantization of the spin-1/2 fermion field assuming the space-like energy-momentum dispersion relation. We a\-chieved the task in the following steps: ($i$) determining the unitary realizations of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-26 Jakub Rembieliński , Paweł Caban , Jacek Ciborowski

We derive an action for scalar quantum field theory with cubic interaction in the context of relative locality. Beginning with the generating functional for standard $\varphi^3$--theory and the corresponding Feynman rules we modify them to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-16 Laurent Freidel , Trevor Rempel

Classical Koopman--von Neumann Hilbert spaces of states are constructed here by the action of classical random fields on a vacuum state in ways that support an action of the quantized electromagnetic field and of the $U(1)$--invariant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-25 Peter Morgan

The article is a natural continuation of our paper {\em Quantum scalar field in FRW Universe with constant electromagnetic background}, Int. J. Mod. Phys. {\bf A12}, 4837 (1997). We generalize the latter consideration to the case of massive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman , A. E. Goncalves

A scalar quantum field model defined on a pseudo Riemann manifold is considered. The model is unitarily transformed the one with a variable mass. By means of a Feynman-Kac-type formula, it is shown that when the variable mass is short…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-03-21 C. Gérard , F. Hiroshima , A. Panati , A. Suzuki

In this paper we study a new symmetry argument that results in a vacuum state with strictly vanishing vacuum energy. This argument exploits the well-known feature that de Sitter and Anti- de Sitter space are related by analytic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Gerard 't Hooft , Stefan Nobbenhuis

We point out that fermionic unitary operators which anticommute among themselves appear in various situations in quantum field theories with anomalies in the Hamiltonian formalism. To illustrate, we give multiple derivations of the fact…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-28 Masaki Okada , Shutaro Shimamura , Yuji Tachikawa , Yi Zhang

We discuss the quantization of an unstable field through the construction of a "one-particle Hilbert space." The system considered here is a neutral scalar field evolving over a globally hyperbolic static spacetime and subject to a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-12 William C. C. Lima

We discuss the dynamical situation which arises in a local quantum field theory after renormalization. By using the example of the three-dimensional theory of a neutral scalar field interacting through the quartic coupling, we show that…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Renat Kh. Gainutdinov

Collective operators that describe interaction of generic quantum system with discrete spectrum with a quantum field are investigated. These operators, considered as operators in the entangled Fock space (space generated by action of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-10 Luigi Accardi , Sergei Kozyrev