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A modified form of non-locally corrected theory of gravity is investigated in the context of cosmology and the Newtonian limit. This form of non-local correction to classic Einstein-Hilbert action can be locally represented by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Dao-Jun Liu , Bin Yang , Xing-Hua Jin

We consider a multiverse scenario made up of classically disconnected regions of the space-time that are, nevertheless, in a quantum entangled state. The addition of a scalar field enriches the model and allows us to treat both the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 Iñaki Garay , Salvador Robles-Pérez

We study the dynamics of a scalar field in the brane cosmology. We assume that a scalar field is confined in our 4-dimensional world. As for the potential of the scalar field, we discuss three typical models: (1) a power-law potential, (2)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Shuntaro Mizuno , Kei-ichi Maeda , Kohta Yamamoto

We discuss the nonlocal nature of quantum mechanics and the link with relativistic quantum mechanics such as formulated by quantum field theory. We use here a nonlocal quantum field theory (NLQFT) which is finite, satisfies Poincar\'e…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-01-12 Robin Landry , John Moffat

The scalar field plays an fundamental role in the investigation of confinement property characterising many particle physics models. This is achieved by coupling this particle directly with gauge fields at the lagrangian level. We have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-20 R. Markazi , N. El Biaze

The mean square fluctuation and the expectation value of the stress-energy-momentum tensor of a neutral massive scalar field at finite temperature are determined near an infinite plane Dirichlet wall, and also near an infinite plane Neumann…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-23 V. A. De Lorenci , L. G. Gomes , E. S. Moreira

This paper contains a collection of essays on nonlocal phenomena in quantum field theory, gravity and cosmology. Mechanisms of nonlocal contributions to the quantum effective action are discussed within the covariant perturbation expansion…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-22 A. O. Barvinsky

In this paper, we initiate the study of operator local quenches in non-conformal field theories. We consider the dynamics of excited local states in massive scalar field theory in an arbitrary spacetime dimension and generalize the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-14 Dmitry S. Ageev , Aleksandr I. Belokon , Vasilii V. Pushkarev

It is known that in quantum field theory, localized operations, e.g.\ given by unitary operators in local observable algebras, may lead to non-causal, or superluminal, state changes within their localization region. In this article, it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Albert Much , Rainer Verch

Quantum field theories on noncommutative Minkowski space are studied in a model-independent setting by treating the noncommutativity as a deformation of quantum field theories on commutative space. Starting from an arbitrary Wightman…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-04-14 Harald Grosse , Gandalf Lechner

We construct models of self-interacting scalar fields whose BPS solutions exhibit kink profiles which can be continuously deformed into two-kinks by varying one of the parameters of the self-interacting potential. The effective models are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Augusto E. R. Chumbes , Marcelo B. Hott

We investigate the one-loop corrections at zero, as well as finite temperature, of a scalar field taking place in a braneworld motived warped background. After to reach a well defined problem, we calculate the effective action with the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-11-18 J. M. Hoff da Silva , E. L. Mendonça , E. Scatena

We consider how the swampland criteria might be applied to models in which scalar fields have nontrivial kinetic terms, particularly in the context of $P(\phi,X)$ theories, popularly used in approaches to inflation, to its alternatives, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-08 Adam R. Solomon , Mark Trodden

We present a new method for renormalisation group improvement of the effective potential of a quantum field theory with an arbitrary number of scalar fields. The method amounts to solving the renormalisation group equation for the effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-12 Leonardo Chataignier , Tomislav Prokopec , Michael G. Schmidt , Bogumila Swiezewska

We study a free scalar field $\phi$ in a fixed curved background spacetime subject to a higher derivative field equation of the form $F(\Box)\phi =0$, where $F$ is a polynomial of the form $F(\Box)= \prod_i (\Box-m_i^2)$ and all masses…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-11-20 G. W. Gibbons , C. N. Pope , Sergey Solodukhin

In this work a class of massive scalar field theories with self-interactions described by a general potential is studied. Under the sole condition that the potential admits the Fourier representation, it is shown that such theories may be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-03-30 Franco Ferrari

In this paper we will analyse some interesting structures that occur in scalar quantum field theory. We will quantize this theory using path integrals. We will analyse the Bogomolny Bound for scalar quantum field theory in two dimensions.…

General Physics · Physics 2014-08-29 Ashaq Hussain Sofi , Mohammad Ashraf Shah

We present some striking global consequences of a model quaternionic quantum field theory which is locally complex. We show how making the quaternionic structure a dynamical quantity naturally leads to the prediction of cosmic strings and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 S. P. Brumby , G. C. Joshi

We show that General Relativity coupled to a quantum field theory generically leads to non-local effects in the matter sector. These non-local effects can be described by non-local higher dimensional operators which remarkably have an…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-27 Xavier Calmet , Djuna Croon , Christopher Fritz

In this paper it is shown how to obtain, without ever using the background classical equations of motion, a simple second order Hamiltonian involving the Mukhanov-Sasaki variable describing quantum linear scalar perturbations for the case…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-22 F. T. Falciano , Nelson Pinto-Neto , Sandro Dias Pinto Vitenti