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The theory of quantum fields propagating on an isotropic cosmological quantum spacetime is reexamined by generalizing the scalar test field to an electromagnetic (EM) vector field. For any given polarization of the EM field on the classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-15 Jerzy Lewandowski , Mohammad Nouri-Zonoz , Ali Parvizi , Yaser Tavakoli

We study the dynamics of light quantum scalar fields in de Sitter space on superhorizon scales. We compute the self-energy of an O(N) symmetric theory at next-to-leading order in a 1/N expansion in the regime of superhorizon momenta, and we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-09 Florian Gautier , Julien Serreau

Within the de Sitter ambient space framework, the two different bases of the one-particle Hilbert space of the de Sitter group algebra are presented for the scalar case. Using field operator algebra and its Fock space construction in this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-29 M. V. Takook , J. P. Gazeau , E. Huguet

It is shown that the so-called $\alpha$-vacua which have been proposed as candidates for states of free quantum fields on de Sitter space have infinitely strong fluctuations for typical observables as averaged renormalized energy momentum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Romeo Brunetti , Klaus Fredenhagen , Stefan Hollands

We study the effective field theory of inflation, i.e. the most general theory describing the fluctuations around a quasi de Sitter background, in the case of single field models. The scalar mode can be eaten by the metric by going to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-06-11 Clifford Cheung , Paolo Creminelli , A. Liam Fitzpatrick , Jared Kaplan , Leonardo Senatore

De Sitter spacetime can be separated into two parts along two kinds of hypersurfaces and the half-de Sitter spacetimes are covered by the planar and hyperbolic coordinates respectively. Two positive energy theorems were proved previously…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 Zhuobin Liang , Xiao Zhang

We study the phi^4 scalar field theory in de Sitter space using the 2PI effective action formalism. This formalism enables us to investigate the nonperturbative quantum effects. We use the mean field and gap equations and calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-10-16 Takashi Arai

There have been many attempts to construct de Sitter space-times in string theory. While arguably there have been some successes, this has proven challenging, leading to the de Sitter swampland conjecture: quantum theories of gravity do not…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-10 Michael Dine , Jamie A. P. Law-Smith , Shijun Sun , Duncan Wood , Yan Yu

A free-theory vacuum state of an interacting field theory, e.g. quantum gravity, is unstable at tree level in general due to spontaneous emission of Fock-space particles in any spacetime with no global timelike Killing vectors, such as de…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Atsushi Higuchi

Quantization of spinor and vector free fields in 4-dimensional de Sitter space-time, in the ambient space notation, has been studied in the previous works. Various two-points functions for the above fields are presented in this paper. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Shahriar Rouhani , Mohammad Vahid Takook

The problem of the flat limits of the scalar and spinor fields on the de Sitter expanding universe is considered in the rest frame vacuum where the frequencies are separated in rest frames as in special relativity. The phases of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-02-03 Ion I. Cotaescu

We argue that a scalar field in de Sitter spacetime should feel explicit thermal effects associated with its curvature. Starting from the Bunch-Davies vacuum and a scalar field with small mass compared to the de Sitter curvature, we use the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-08 Nikos Irges , Antonis Kalogirou , Fotis Koutroulis

The lowest order contribution of the amplitude of the Dirac-Coulomb scattering in de Sitter spacetime is calculated assuming that the initial and final states of the Dirac field are described by exact solutions of the free Dirac equation on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Cosmin Crucean

Cosmological particle creation is the phenomenon by which the expansion of spacetime results in the production of particles of a given quantum field in that spacetime. In this paper, we study this phenomenon by considering a multi-level…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-05 Laura Niermann , Luis C. Barbado

We consider de Sitter spacetime solutions and the corresponding de Sitter kind of plane-wave solutions in M* theory. We attempt to write down corresponsing matrix model which is found to have explicit negative energy mass terms as well as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Harvendra Singh

We consider the definition of the global vacuum state of a quantum scalar field on $n$-dimensional anti-de Sitter space-time as seen by an observer rotating about the polar axis. Since positive (or negative) frequency scalar field modes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-16 Carl Kent , Elizabeth Winstanley

We investigate how quantum information, encoded in a quantum field, evolves during the expansion of spacetime. Due to information loss across the horizon, a local observer experiences this evolution as a nonunitary quantum channel. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-09 Laura Niermann , Tobias J. Osborne

We review the role of the spectral condition as a characteristic feature unifying Minkowski, de Sitter and anti de Sitter Quantum Field Theory. In this context, we highlight the role of an important class of plane waves which are either de…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-26 Ugo Moschella

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

This paper explores infrared quantum effects in the de Sitter space. The notion of "eternal manifolds" is introduced and it is shown that in most cases the de Sitter space doesn't belong to this class. It is unstable under small…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 A. M. Polyakov