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Quantum coherence in curved spacetime offers a fresh window into the interplay between gravity, thermality, and quantum resources. While previous work has shown that Markovian evolution can generate entanglement and other nonclassical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-06 Samira Elghaayda , Atta ur Rahman , Mostafa Mansour

We consider the vacuum response of a particle detector in Anti-de Sitter spacetime, and in particular analyze how spacetime features such as curvature and dimensionality affect the response spectrum of an accelerated detector. We calculate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-21 David Jennings

We give an interpretation of the temperature in de Sitter universe in terms of a dynamical Unruh effect associated with the Hubble sphere. As with the quantum noise perceived by a uniformly accelerated observer in static space-times,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-23 R. Casadio , S. Chiodini , A. Orlandi , G. Acquaviva , R. Di Criscienzo , L. Vanzo

We consider quantum real massive scalar field in the de Sitter-Schwarzschild space-time backround. To have an analytic head way we study in detail the two-dimensional case, assuming that the situation in four dimensions will not be much…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-05-31 E. T. Akhmedov , K. V. Bazarov

In the framework of finite temperature conformal scalar field theory on de Sitter space-time the linearized Einstein equations for the renormalized stress tensor are exactly solved. In this theory quantum field fluctuations are concentrated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 D. V. Fursaev , G. Miele

It has been argued that the entanglement spectrum of a static patch of de Sitter space must be flat, or what is equivalent, the temperature parameter in the Boltzmann distribution must be infinite. This seems absurd: quantum fields in de…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-03 Henry Lin , Leonard Susskind

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

Assuming that (1) the universe underwent a post-inflationary accelerated expansion phase driven by a fluid with equation of state $P=w\rho$ and $-1<w<-1/3$, that (2) the cosmic horizon in an accelerating, quasi-de Sitter universe has a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-24 Stefano Profumo

We introduce a simple microscopic quantum mechanical model of low-dimensional de Sitter holography with an observer. Using semiclassical gravity and elementary thermodynamic considerations, we derive a formula for the total entropy of a 3D…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-07 Damiano Tietto , Herman Verlinde

Rotating black holes in de Sitter space are known to have interesting limits where the temperatures of the black hole and cosmological horizon are equal. We give a complete description of the thermal phase structure of all allowed rotating…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-13 Dionysios Anninos , Tarek Anous

The seminar discovery by Gibbons and Hawking that a freely falling detector observes an isotropic background of thermal radiation reveals that de Sitter space is equivalent to a thermal bath at the Gibbons-Hawking temperature in Minkowski…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-29 Wenting Zhou , Shijing Cheng , Hongwei Yu

In this paper a de Sitter Space version of Black Hole Complementarity is formulated which states that an observer in de Sitter Space describes the surrounding space as a sealed finite temperature cavity bounded by a horizon which allows no…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Lisa Dyson , James Lindesay , Leonard Susskind

In this paper we propose a straightforward method for understanding the thermodynamics of black holes in de Sitter space, one that will allow us to study these black holes in a way that is analogous to the anti-de Sitter case. As per usual,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-07 David Kubiznak , Fil Simovic

A general formalism for understanding the thermodynamics of horizons in spherically symmetric spacetimes is developed. The formalism reproduces known results in the case of black hole spacetimes. But its power lies in being able to handle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 T. Padmanabhan

We study, in the framework of open quantum systems, the entanglement generation between two mutually independent static two-level atoms in de Sitter spacetime. We treat the two-atom system as an open system in interaction with a bath of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-14 Jiawei Hu , Hongwei Yu

A gas in a box is perhaps the most important model system studied in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. Usually, studies focus on the gas, whereas the box merely serves as an idealized confinement. The present article focuses on the…

In the framework of open quantum systems, we study the internal dynamics of both freely falling and static two-level atoms interacting with quantized conformally coupled massless scalar field in de Sitter spacetime. We find that the atomic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Zehua Tian , Jiliang Jing

In the framework of open quantum systems, we study the geometric phase acquired by freely falling and static two-level atoms interacting with quantized conformally coupled massless scalar fields in de Sitter-invariant vacuum. We find that,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Zehua Tian , Jiliang Jing

We present a 4-dimensional back reaction analysis of de Sitter space for a conformally coupled scalar field in the presence of vacuum energy initialized in the Bunch-Davies vacuum. In contrast to the usual semi-classical prescription, as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-25 Tommi Markkanen

We discuss the difference between the thermodynamics of black holes and thermodynamics of the de Sitter expansion. Both systems experience the Hawking radiation, but its impact on thermodynamics is different. As distinct from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 G. E. Volovik