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Explicit realizations of quantum field theory (QFT) are admitted by a revision to the Wightman axioms for the vacuum expectation values (VEV) of fields. The technical development of QFT is expanded beyond positive functionals on *-algebras…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-10-02 Glenn Eric Johnson

We study a free scalar field $\phi$ in a fixed curved background spacetime subject to a higher derivative field equation of the form $F(\Box)\phi =0$, where $F$ is a polynomial of the form $F(\Box)= \prod_i (\Box-m_i^2)$ and all masses…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-20 G. W. Gibbons , C. N. Pope , Sergey Solodukhin

The phenomenon of quantum nucleation is studied in a nanometer-scale antiferromagnet with biaxial symmetry in the presence of a magnetic field at an arbitrary angle. Within the instanton approach, we calculate the dependence of the rate of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Rong Lu , Yi Zhou , Jia-Lin Zhu , Bing-Lin Gu

Quantum cosmological models are commonly described by means of semiclassical approximations in which a smooth evolution of the expectation values of elementary geometry operators replaces the classical and singular dynamics. The advantage…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-28 Przemysław Małkiewicz , Artur Miroszewski

Free scalar field theory on 2 dimensional flat spacetime, cast in diffeomorphism invariant guise by treating the inertial coordinates of the spacetime as dynamical variables, is quantized using LQG type `polymer' representations for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Alok Laddha , Madhavan Varadarajan

We investigate the ambiguities in the Fock quantization of the scalar perturbations of a Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker model with a massive scalar field as matter content. We consider the case of compact spatial sections (thus…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-21 Mikel Fernández-Méndez , Guillermo A. Mena Marugán , Javier Olmedo , José M. Velhinho

Recent progress in electro-optic sampling has allowed direct access to the fluctuations of the electromagnetic ground state. Here, we present a theoretical formalism that allows for an in-depth characterisation and interpretation of such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Frieder Lindel , Robert Bennett , Stefan Yoshi Buhmann

A new approach is demonstrated that QFTs can be UV finite if they are viewed as the low energy effective theories of a fundamental underlying theory (that is complete and well-defined in all respects) according to the nowaday's standard…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Jifeng Yang

The paper presents the representation of quantum field theory without introduction of infinity bare masses and coupling constants of fermions. Counter-terms, compensating for divergent quantities in self-energy diagrams of fermions and…

General Physics · Physics 2015-02-03 V. P. Neznamov

A new theoretical framework to describe the experimental advances in electro-optic detection of broadband quantum states, specifically the quantum vacuum, is devised. By making use of fundamental concepts from quantum field theory on…

The quantum system of a massless charged scalar field with a self-interaction is investigated. By introducing a spacial cut-off function, the Hamiltonian of the system is realized as a linear operator on a boson Fock space. It is proven…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-05-16 Kazuyuki Wada

We revisit the Hamiltonian formalism for a massive scalar field and study the particle production in a de Sitter space. In the invariant-operator picture the time-dependent annihilation and creation operators are constructed in terms of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-04 Sang Pyo Kim

A proof is given for the Fourier transform for functions in a quantum mechanical Hilbert space on a non-compact manifold in general relativity. In the (configuration space) Newton-Wigner representation we discuss the spectral decomposition…

General Physics · Physics 2020-04-23 L. P. Horwitz

We investigate the effect on cosmological evolution of a strongly coupled quantum field that undergoes renormalization group flow from a UV CFT to an IR CFT. The field theory is defined by perturbation of a holographic CFT by a relevant…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-12 Mark Van Raamsdonk , Rana Zibakhsh

We investigate an influence of virtual particles on the classical motion of a system in Minkowski and Euclidean spaces. Our results indicate that fluctuations of fields different from the main field decelerate significantly its motion at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-16 S. G. Rubin , H. Kröger , G. Melkonian

In this article, I have considered a real scalar field theory and able to show that under Bogoliubov transformation in infinite volume limit or thermodynamic limit the transformed Hamiltonian no longer invariant under U(1) action defined…

General Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Susobhan Mandal

We address the issue of inequivalent Fock representations in Quantum Field Theory in a curved homogenous and anisotropic background, namely Kantowski-Sachs spacetime. A family of unitarily equivalent Fock representations that are invariant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-07 Jerónimo Cortez , Guillermo A. Mena Marugán , Alvaro Torres-Caballeros , José M. Velhinho

The requirement of Hermiticity of a Quantum Mechanical Hamiltonian, for the description of physical processes with real eigenvalues which has been challenged notably by Carl Bender, is examined for the case of a Fock space Hamilitonian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 David B. Fairlie , Jean Nuyts

We consider the backreaction problem of a quantized minimally coupled massless scalar field in cosmology. The adiabatically regularized stress-energy tensor in a general Friedmann-Robertson-Walker background is approximately evaluated by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-04 Ali Kaya , Merve Tarman

When a nonrelativistic particle interacts with a scalar quantum field, the standard perturbation theory leads to a dependence of the energy of its ground state on an undefined parameter---"momentum cutoff"---due to the ultraviolet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-13 O. D. Skoromnik , I. D. Feranchuk , D. V. Lu , C. H. Keitel