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The approximation of the renormalized stress-energy tensor of the quantized massive scalar, spinor, and vector field in the Reissner- Nordstrom spacetime is constructed. It is achieved by functional differentiation of the lowest order of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Jerzy Matyjasek

Motivated by a desire to understand quantum fluctuation energy densities and stress within a spatially varying dielectric medium, we examine the vacuum expectation value for the stress tensor of a scalar field with arbitrary conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-17 Kimball A. Milton , Stephen A. Fulling , Prachi Parashar , Pushpa Kalauni , Taylor Murphy

We study the regularization of a spin-1/2 fieldin the vacuum state in de Sitter space. We find that the 2nd order adiabatic regularization is sufficient to remove all UV divergences for the spectral stress tensor, as well as for the power…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 Xuan Ye , Yang Zhang

We develop the Hadamard renormalization of the stress-energy tensor for a massive scalar field theory defined on a general spacetime of arbitrary dimension. Our formalism could be helpful in treating some aspects of the quantum physics of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yves Décanini , Antoine Folacci

This paper is devoted to the construction of the renormalized quantum stress energy tensor $\left<T_{\mu}^{\nu}\right>_{ren}$ for a massive scalar field with arbitrary coupling to the gravitational field of a pointlike global monopole,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-19 Owen Pavel Fernández Piedra

We calculate the energy density and pressure of a scalar field after its decoupling from a thermal bath in the spatially flat Friedman-Lema\^itre-Robertson-Walker space-time, within the framework of quantum statistical mechanics. By using…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-09 F. Becattini , D. Roselli

The Schwinger-de Witt and Hadamard methods are used to obtain renormalised vacuum expectation values for the fermion condensate, charge current and stress-energy tensor of a quantum fermion field of arbitrary mass on four-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-04 Victor E. Ambrus , Elizabeth Winstanley

The computation of the renormalized stress-energy tensor or $\left\langle\phi^{2}\right\rangle_{ren}$ in curved spacetime is a challenging task, at both the conceptual and technical levels. Recently we developed a new approach to compute…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-30 Adam Levi , Amos Ori

We study the stress-energy tensor of a massless, conformally coupled, quantum scalar field in a rigidly-rotating thermal state on three- and four-dimensional anti-de Sitter space-time. We first find the stress-energy tensor using…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-08 Jacob C. Thompson , Elizabeth Winstanley

We compute the vacuum expectation value of the stress-energy tensor of a scalar field on a product spacetime composed of an FLRW background times a compact dimension ($\mathcal{M}^{1, \,d-1} \times \mathcal{S}^1$), where the size of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-30 Anamitra Paul , Sonia Paban

The regularized expectation value of the stress-energy tensor for a massless bosonic or fermionic field in 1+1 dimensions is calculated explicitly for the instantaneous vacuum relative to any Cauchy surface (here a spacelike curve) in terms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Don N. Page

The renormalized expectation value of the stress-energy tensor of the conformally invariant massless field in the Israel-Hartle-Hawking state in the Schwarzschild spacetime is constructed. It is achieved through solving the conservation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-12 Jerzy Matyjasek

The approximation of the renormalized stress-energy tensor of the quantized massive scalar field in Reissner-Nordstr\"om spacetime is constructed. It is achieved by functional differentiation of the first two nonvanishing terms of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 Jerzy Matyjasek , Dariusz Tryniecki , Katarzyna Zwierzchowska

First, the present work is concerned with generalising constructions and results in quantum field theory on curved spacetimes from the well-known case of the Klein-Gordon field to Dirac fields. To this end, the enlarged algebra of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-22 Thomas-Paul Hack

The approximate stress-energy tensor of the conformally invariant massless spin-1/2 field in the Hartle-Hawking state in the Schwarzschild spacetime is constructed. It is shown that by solving the conservation equation in conformal space…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Jerzy Matyjasek

We analyze the adiabatic regularization scheme to renormalize Proca fields in a four-dimensional Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker spacetime. The adiabatic method is well established for scalar and spin-$1/2$ fields, but is not yet…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-12 F. Javier Marañón-González , José Navarro-Salas

In this work, we investigate the renormalized energy--momentum tensor of a quantized charged scalar field in three-dimensional de Sitter spacetime $\mathrm{dS}_{3}$ under the influence of a uniform electric field. Using the adiabatic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-12 Manizheh Botshekananfard , Takahiro Hayashinaka

We consider a real massive free quantum scalar field with arbitrary curvature coupling on $n$-dimensional anti-de Sitter space-time. We use Hadamard renormalization to find the vacuum expectation values of the quadratic field fluctuations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-18 Carl Kent , Elizabeth Winstanley

To model a realistic situation for the beginning we consider massive real scalar $\phi^4$ theory in a (1+1)-dimensional asymptotically static Minkowski spacetime with an intermediate stage of expansion. To have an analytic headway we assume…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-28 Emil T. Akhmedov , Francesco Bascone

The treatment of a quantized field in a curved spacetime requires the study of backreaction of the field on the spacetime via the semiclassical Einstein equation. We consider a free scalar field in spatially flat Robertson-Walker space…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-07-14 Benjamin Eltzner , Hanno Gottschalk