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We study the particle creation process in the Schwinger model coupled with an external classical source. One can approach the problem by taking advantage that the full quantized model is solvable and equivalent to a (massive) gauge field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-29 José Navarro-Salas , Silvia Pla

The main results for the two-dimensional quantum gravity, conjectured from the matrix model or integrable approach, are presented in the form to be compared with the world-sheet or Liouville approach. In spherical limit the integrable side…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-07-22 A. Marshakov

One of the most striking examples for the production of particles out of the quantum vacuum due to external conditions is cosmological particle creation, which is caused by the expansion or contraction of the Universe. Already in 1939,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Ralf Schützhold , William G. Unruh

A new approach to the concept of particles and their production in quantum field theory is developed. A local operator describing the current of particle density is constructed for scalar and spinor fields in arbitrary gravitational and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 H. Nikolic

Non-linear interactions during inflation generate non-Gaussianities in the distribution of primordial curvature. In many theories, the physics is scale-invariant, such that the induced three-point function depends solely on a dimensionless…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-27 Oliver H. E. Philcox

In this work, we investigate the particle creation rate in a dynamical (Vaidya) spacetime using Feynman's path integral formalism within the framework of the effective action approach. We examine three distinct cases involving the following…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-06 Samit Ganguly , Narayan Banerjee , Abhijit Bhattacharyya , Goutam Manna

The oscillator representation is used for the non-perturbative description of vacuum particle creation in a strong time-dependent electric field in the framework of scalar QED. It is shown that the method can be more effective for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 V. N. Pervushin , V. V. Skokov , A. V. Reichel , S. A. Smolyansky , A. V. Prozorkevich

We study the dynamics of gravitons in a squeezed vacuum state under a thermal radiation background. Unlike traditional treatments that rely on the Boltzmann equation, we employ the Heisenberg equation and average it over general quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-04 Atsuhisa Ota , Yuhang Zhu

Particle production due to a quantized, massless, minimally coupled scalar field in two-dimensional flat spacetime with an accelerating mirror is investigated, with a focus on the time dependence of the process. We analyze first the classes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-17 Michael R. R. Good , Paul R. Anderson , Charles R. Evans

We study the production of spin 3/2 particles in homogeneous scalar and gravitational backgrounds from the mode-mixing Bogolyubov method. Considering only helicity $\pm 3/2$ states we can reduce the problem to a standard Dirac fermion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Antonio L. Maroto , Anupam Mazumdar

We propose a new model independent technique for constructing background data templates for use in searches for new physics processes at the LHC. This method, called CURTAINs, uses invertible neural networks to parametrise the distribution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-22 John Andrew Raine , Samuel Klein , Debajyoti Sengupta , Tobias Golling

We revisit gravitational particle production from the Stokes phenomenon viewpoint, which helps us make a systematic way to understand asymptotic behavior of mode functions in time-dependent background. One of our purposes of this work is to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-13 Soichiro Hashiba , Yusuke Yamada

Atomic deexcitation emitting a neutrino pair and a photon is expected to provide a novel method of neutrino physics if it is enhanced by quantum coherence in a macroscopic target. However, the same enhancement mechanism may also lead to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-06 Minoru Tanaka , Koji Tsumura , Noboru Sasao , Satoshi Uetake , Motohiko Yoshimura

It is shown that the generally covariant Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau equation, formulated in the frame of the Tetrode-Weyl-Fock-Ivanenko tetrad formalism, allows for a non-relativistic approximation if the metric tensor is of a special form. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-15 A. A. Bogush , V. V. Kisel , N. G. Tokarevskaya , V. M. Red'kov

We calculate the impact of quantum gravity-motivated ultraviolet cutoffs on inflationary predictions for the cosmic microwave background spectrum. We model the ultraviolet cutoffs fully covariantly to avoid possible artifacts of covariance…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-31 Aidan Chatwin-Davies , Achim Kempf , Robert T. W. Martin

Millicharged particles are generic in theories of dark sectors. A cosmic or local abundance of them may be produced by the early universe, stellar environments, or the decay or annihilation of dark matter/dark energy. Furthermore, if such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-06 Asher Berlin , Surjeet Rajendran , Harikrishnan Ramani , Erwin H. Tanin

Quantum field theory predicts that dynamical curved spacetimes can spontaneously excite particle pairs from the quantum vacuum, a phenomenon extensively studied in expanding universes and in scenarios involving gravitational collapse. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-25 Adrián del Río , Pau López-Oliver

There are many inflationary models in which inflaton field does not satisfy the slow-roll condition. However, in such models, it is always difficult to generate the curvature perturbation during inflation. Thus, to generate the curvature…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Tomohiro Matsuda

Friction is usually a very complicated process. It appears in its most elementary form when two flat surfaces separated by vacuum gap are sliding relative to each other at zero Kelvin and the friction is generated by the relative movement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-12-22 Aleksandr Volokitin

We investigate the circumstances under which cosmic inflation can arise from very inhomogeneous initial conditions using numerical relativity simulations. Previous studies have not considered cases with non-zero momentum density due to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-15 Maxence Corman , William E. East