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We derive the response function for a comoving, pointlike Unruh-DeWitt particle detector coupled to a complex scalar field $\phi$, in the $(3+1)$-dimensional cosmological de Sitter spacetime. The field-detector coupling is taken to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-19 Md. Sabir Ali , Sourav Bhattacharya , Kinjalk Lochan

The polarized Gowdy ${\bf T}^3$ vacuum spacetimes are characterized, modulo gauge, by a ``point particle'' degree of freedom and a function $\phi$ that satisfies a linear field equation and a non-linear constraint. The quantum Gowdy model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-24 C. G. Torre

We study the evolution of a quantum scalar field in a toy universe which has three stages of evolution, viz., (i) an early (inflationary) de Sitter phase (ii) radiation dominated phase and (iii) late-time (cosmological constant dominated)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-12 Suprit Singh , Sujoy Kumar Modak , T. Padmanabhan

A well-established result in quantum field theory in four-dimensional de Sitter space is that the vacuum state of a massless scalar field breaks the de Sitter isometry group, leading to time-dependent (secular) growth in correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-09 Gonzalo A. Palma , Spyros Sypsas , Danilo Tapia

The cosmological evolution of free massless vector or tensor (but not gauge) fields minimally coupled to gravity is analyzed. It is shown that there are some unstable solutions for these fields in De Sitter background. The back reaction of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-30 A. D. Dolgov

We apply the Lewis-Riesenfeld invariant method for the harmonic oscillator with time dependent mass and frequency to the modes of a charged scalar field that propagates in a curved, homogeneous and isotropic spacetime. We recover the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Salvador Robles-Perez

We quantize a classically stable system of a harmonic oscillator polynomially coupled to a ghost with negative kinetic energy. We prove that due to an integral of motion with a positive discrete spectrum: i) the Hamiltonian has a pure point…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-24 Cédric Deffayet , Atabak Fathe Jalali , Aaron Held , Shinji Mukohyama , Alexander Vikman

We present the dictionary between the one-particle Hilbert spaces of totally symmetric tensor-spinor fields of spin $s={3}/{2}, {5}/{2}$ with any mass parameter on $D$-dimensional ($D \geq 3$) de Sitter space ($dS_{D}$) and Unitary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-16 Vasileios A. Letsios

We construct a natural and nonperturbative momentum space for quantum field theory on $(d+1)$-dimensional de Sitter (dS) spacetime in the Poincar\'e slicing, adapted to early Universe cosmology. In particular, we identify the dS frequency…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-20 Nathan Belrhali , Arthur Poisson , Sébastien Renaux-Petel , Denis Werth

We explore the question of how to probe the vacuum structure of space time by a massive scalar field through interaction with background gravitons. Using the $\Gamma$-regularization for the in-/out-state formalism, we find the effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-27 Sang Pyo Kim

A non-perturbative canonical quantization of Gowdy $T^3$ polarized models carried out recently is considered. This approach profits from the equivalence between the symmetry reduced model and 2+1 gravity coupled to a massless real scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Alejandro Corichi , Jeronimo Cortez , Hernando Quevedo

We elaborate further the functional Schr\"{o}dinger-picture approach to the quantum field in curved spacetimes using the generalized invariant method and construct explicitly the Fock space, which we relate with the thermal field theory. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Sang Pyo Kim

We study the solutions to the Klein-Gordon equation for the massive scalar field in the universal covering space of two-dimensional anti-de Sitter space. For certain values of the mass parameter, we impose a suitable set of boundary…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-01-12 Atsushi Higuchi , Lasse Schmieding , David Serrano Blanco

We investigate the details of the canonical quantization of effective quantum field theories in anti-de Sitter spacetime, emphasizing the stability of the quantum vacuum. We take the scalar and Maxwell fields as examples. For the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-09 Shi-Yuan Li , Chengwu Liu

We study the time evolution of a wave function for the spatially flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker universe governed by the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in both analytical and numerical methods. We consider a Brown-Kuchar dust as a matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-14 Hideki Maeda

In this work we study the Sorkin-Johnston (SJ) vacuum in de Sitter spacetime for free scalar field theory. For the massless theory we find that the SJ vacuum can neither be obtained from the $O(4)$ Fock vacuum of Allen and Folacci nor from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-30 Sumati Surya , Nomaan X , Yasaman K. Yazdi

We show that a massive scalar field on a 2-dimensional Anti-De Sitter space can be mapped by means of a time-dependent canonical transformation into a massless free field theory when the mass square of the field is equal to minus the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 J. Cruz

We point out that the weakly turbulent instability of anti-de Sitter space, recently found in arXiv:1104.3702 for four dimensional spherically symmetric Einstein-massless-scalar field equations with negative cosmological constant, is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-14 Joanna Jałmużna , Andrzej Rostworowski , Piotr Bizoń

In this work we study the unitary time-evolutions of quantum systems defined on infinite-dimensional separable time-dependent Hilbert spaces. Two possible cases are considered: a quantum system defined on a stochastic interval and another…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 Luca Curcuraci , Stefano Bacchi , Angelo Bassi

We consider quantization of the positive curvature Friedmann cosmology in the unimodular modification of Einstein's theory, in which the spacetime four-volume appears as an explicit time variable. The Hamiltonian admits self-adjoint…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Alan Daughton , Jorma Louko , Rafael D. Sorkin