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In a time dependent background like de Sitter space, Feynman-Dyson perturbation theory breaks down due to infra-red divergences. We investigate an interacting scalar field theory in Schwinger-Keldysh formalism. We derive a Boltzmann…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-10-19 Hiroyuki Kitamoto , Yoshihisa Kitazawa

We consider the entanglement dynamics between two Unruh-DeWitt detectors at rest separated at a distance $d$. This simple model when analyzed properly in quantum field theory shows many interesting facets and helps to dispel some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-15 Shih-Yuin Lin , B. L. Hu

We summarize and expand our investigations concerning the soft graviton effects on microscopic matter dynamics in de Sitter space. The physical couplings receive IR logarithmic corrections which are sensitive to the IR cut-off at the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-03-31 Hiroyuki Kitamoto , Yoshihisa Kitazawa

The Euclidean or Bunch-Davies O(4,1) invariant 'vacuum' state of quantum fields in global de Sitter space is shown to be unstable to small perturbations, even for a massive free field with no self-interactions. There are perturbations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-28 Paul R. Anderson , Emil Mottola

We analyze the possible quantum correlations between two coupled dimer systems in the presence of independent losses and driven by a fluctuating field. For the case of the interaction being of a Heisenberg exchange type, we first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Dimitris G. Angelakis , Stefano Mancini

In this paper we study the problem of neutral electro-weak interactions in a de Sitter geometry. We develop the formalism of reduction for the Proca field with the help of the solutions for the interacting fields and by using perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-27 Diana Dumitrele , Mihaela-Andreea Băloi , Cosmin Crucean

We study the quatum to classical transition process in the context of quantum field theory. Extending the influence functional formalism of Feynman and Vernon, we study the decoherence process for self-interacting quantum fields in flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 Fernando C. Lombardo

The entanglement entropy of a massless scalar field in de Sitter space depends on multiple scales, such as the radius of the entangling surface, the Hubble constant and the UV cutoff. We perform a high-precision numerical calculation using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Konstantinos Boutivas , Dimitrios Katsinis , Georgios Pastras , Nikolaos Tetradis

In this work, we study the impact of quantum entanglement on the two-point correlation function and the associated primordial power spectrum of mean square vacuum fluctuation in a bipartite quantum field theoretic system. The field theory…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-06-08 Sayantan Choudhury , Sudhakar Panda

We consider the entanglement entropy of a free massive scalar field in the one parameter family of $\alpha$-vacua in de Sitter space by using a method developed by Maldacena and Pimentel. An $\alpha$-vacuum can be thought of as a state…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-09 Sugumi Kanno , Jeff Murugan , Jonathan P. Shock , Jiro Soda

Entanglement entropy is crucial for understanding the link between quantum mechanics and information theory. This thesis investigates how energy fluctuations and acceleration affect entanglement entropy through three key scenarios. First,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-28 Felipe Diaz

I present some general ideas about quantum entanglement in relativistic quantum field theory, especially entanglement in the physical vacuum. Here, entanglement is defined between different single particle states (or modes), parameterized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Yu Shi

We study the quantum coherence in de Sitter space for the bipartite system of Alice and Bob who initially share an entangled state between the two modes of a free massive scalar field. It is shown that the space-curvature effect can produce…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-01 Shu-Min Wu , Chun-Xu Wang , Dan-Dan Liu , Xiao-Li Huang , Hao-Sheng Zeng

Instabilities of two dimensional (1+1) de Sitter space induced by interacting fields are studied. As for the case of flat Minkowski space, several interacting fermion models can be translated into free boson ones and vice versa. It is found…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 Myron Bander

We compute the one-loop quantum corrections to the gravitational potentials of a spinning point particle in a de Sitter background, due to the vacuum polarisation induced by conformal fields in an effective field theory approach. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-04-19 Markus B. Fröb , Enric Verdaguer

Ultracold fermionic atoms in an optical lattice, with a sudden position-dependent change (a quench) in the effective dispersion relation, have been proposed by Rodr\'iguez-Laguna et al as an analogue spacetime test of the Unruh effect. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-10 Adrian Lopez-Raven , Robert B. Mann , Jorma Louko

Understanding real-time dynamics of interacting quantum fields in curved spacetime remains a major theoretical challenge. We employ tensor network methods to study such dynamics using interacting scalar and gauge theories in 1+1 spacetime…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-29 Evan Budd , Adrien Florio , David Frenklakh , Swagato Mukherjee

Two-dimensional Schwarzschild-de Sitter is a convenient spacetime in which to study the effects of horizons on quantum fields since the spacetime contains two horizons, and the wave equation for a massless minimally coupled scalar field can…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-02 Paul R. Anderson , Jennie Traschen

The Fock space of a system of indistinguishable particles is isomorphic (in a non-unique way) to the state-space of a composite i.e., many-modes, quantum system. One can then discuss quantum entanglement for fermionic as well as bosonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Zanardi

In this paper we study some thermal properties of quantum field theories in de Sitter space by means of holographic techniques. We focus on the static patch of de Sitter and assume that the quantum fields are in the standard Bunch-Davies…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-08-13 Willy Fischler , Phuc H. Nguyen , Juan F. Pedraza , Walter Tangarife