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A small quantum system is studied which is a superposition of states localized in different positions in a static gravitational field. The time evolution of the correlation between different positions is investigated, and it is seen that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-11 Ahmad Shariati , Mohammad Khorrami , Farhang Loran

We revisit the problem of spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB), its restoration, and phase transition for a self interacting quantum scalar field in a general curved background, at zero and finite temperature. To the best of our knowledge,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-25 Vishal Nath , Sourav Bhattacharya

We study gravitational theories with a cosmological constant and the Gauss-Bonnet curvature squared term and analyze the possibility of de Sitter expanding spacetime with a constant internal space. We find that there are two branches of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-19 Kei-ichi Maeda , Nobuyoshi Ohta

The possibility of an expanding decelerating Universe in the distant future is investigated in the context of a quintessence scalar field cosmology. Such a conceivable evolution is tested against SNe Ia and $H(z)$ cosmic chronometers data,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-29 A. A. Escobal , J. F. Jesus , S. H. Pereira , J. A. S. Lima

We propose a method of accelerating the speed of evolution of an open system by an external classical driving field for a qubit in a zero-temperature structured reservoir. It is shown that, with a judicious choice of the driving strength of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Ying-Jie Zhang , Wei Han , Yun-Jie Xia , Jun-Peng Cao , Heng Fan

In this paper, we discuss the spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of matter fields in the de Sitter universe. The energy-momentum tensor of the matter field is assumed to admit a wide variety including dust, perfect fluids with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-15 Akriti Garg , Ayan Chatterjee

A quantum system interacting with its environment is subject to dephasing which ultimately destroys the information it holds. Using a superconducting qubit, we experimentally show that this dephasing has both dynamic and geometric origins.…

As evidenced by a great number of works, it is common practice to assume that the Universe is flat. However, the majority of studies which make use of observational data to constrain the curvature density parameter are premised on the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-18 Christine R. Farrugia , Joseph Sultana

We study the slow quench dynamics of a one-dimensional nonequilibrium lattice gas model which exhibits a phase transition in the stationary state between a fluid phase with homogeneously distributed particles and a jammed phase with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-11 Priyanka , Kavita Jain

We show that the vacuum energy of a free quantized field of very low mass can significantly alter the recent expansion of the universe. The effective action of the theory is obtained from a non-perturbative sum of scalar curvature terms in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Leonard Parker , Alpan Raval

We investigate the cosmological dynamics of non-minimally coupled scalar field system described by $F(\phi)R$ coupling with $F(\phi)=(1-\xi\phi^N)R$($N\ge2$) and the field potential, $V(\phi)=V_0\phi^n$. We use a generic set of dynamical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 M. Sami , M. Shahalam , M. Skugoreva , A. Toporensky

We analyse the evolution of the reduced density matrix of inflationary perturbations, coupled to a heavy entropic field via the leading-order term within the Effective Field Theory of Inflation, for two nearly de Sitter backgrounds. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-14 Suddhasattwa Brahma , Jaime Calderón-Figueroa , Xiancong Luo , David Seery

Scalar particles--i.e., scalar-field excitations--in de Sitter space exhibit behavior unlike either classical particles in expanding space or quantum particles in flat spacetime. Their energies oscillate forever, and their interactions are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Ian H. Redmount

Perturbative quantum field theory in de Sitter space is known to give rise to a variety of contributions that diverge with time (secular terms). Despite significant progress, a complete understanding of the physical origin of these…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-05-20 Daniel Green , Akhil Premkumar

We show that the evolution of interacting massive particles in the de Sitter bulk can be understood at leading order as a series of resonant decay and production events. From this perspective, we classify the cosmological collider signals…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-07-11 Xi Tong , Yi Wang , Yuhang Zhu

We study the dynamics of scalar fields with compact field spaces, or axions, in de Sitter space. We argue that the field space topology can qualitatively affect the physics of these fields beyond just which terms are allowed in their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-16 Priyesh Chakraborty , John Stout

We investigate in this paper the cosmological evolution of a dark energy model with two scalar fields where one of the scalar has canonical kinetic energy and another scalar has negative kinetic energy term. For such a system with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zong-Kuan Guo , Yun-Song Piao , Xinmin Zhang , Yuan-Zhong Zhang

The present work is an example of the application of the dynamical system analysis in the context of cosmology. Here cosmic evolution is considered in the background of homogeneous and isotropic flat Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-20 Soumya Chakraborty , Sudip Mishra , Subenoy Chakraborty

We investigate $\mathcal{P}\mathcal{T}$-symmetric quantum systems ultra-weakly coupled to an environment. We find that such open systems evolve under $\mathcal{P}\mathcal{T}$-symmetric, purely dephasing and unital dynamics. The dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-07 Bartłomiej Gardas , Sebastian Deffner , Avadh Saxena

This paper is dedicated to scrutinizing the cosmology in massive gravity. A matter field of the dark sector is coupled to an effective composite metric while a standard matter field couples to the dynamical metric in the usual way. For this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-21 Lavinia Heisenberg , Alexandre Refregier