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We show that big bang cosmology implies a high degree of entanglement of particles in the universe. In fact, a typical particle is entangled with many particles far outside our horizon. However, the entanglement is spread nearly uniformly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-05 Roman V. Buniy , Stephen D. H. Hsu

In this paper, we suppose a possible extension of Gibbs ensemble theory so that it can provide a reasonable description to phase transitions and spontaneous symmetry breaking. The extension is founded on three hypotheses, and can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 Ming-wen Xiao

We show that Calogero-Sutherland models for interacting particles have a natural supersymmetric extension. For the construction, we use Jacobians which appear in certain superspaces. Some of the resulting Hamiltonians have a direct physics…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Thomas Guhr , Heiner Kohler

We analyze the spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) induced by one specific component of a linearly coupled binary Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). The model is based on linearly coupled Schr\"odinger equations with cubic nonlinearity and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-02-15 Mateus C. P. dos Santos , Wesley B. Cardoso

We present a model of the expanding Universe that begins in a zero energy vacuum state. The Universe results from the spontaneous breaking of the electroweak symmetry, wherein the vacuum with positive expectation energy produces the dark…

General Physics · Physics 2021-04-29 R. N. Henriksen

The concept of spontaneous symmetry breaking (SSB) generally lacks a simple and intuitive introduction in the literature. This gap is filled by defining SSB in a universal context beyond its usual applications in physics and by discussing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-10-26 Andreas Aste

There is something missing in our understanding of the origin of the seeds of Cosmic Structuture. The fact that the fluctuation spectrum can be extracted from the inflationary scenario through an analysis that involves quantum field theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel Sudarsky

The foundations of the mass generation mechanism of particles are reviewed. The Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking (SSB) process within the standard model (SM) and the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) is used to explore the present…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-07 Nils M. Bezares-Roder , Hemwati Nandan

We investigate the emergence of a quantum Big-Bounce in the context of an isotropic Universe, filled by a self-interacting scalar field, which plays the role of a physical clock. The bouncing cosmology is the result of a scattering process,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-04 S. Lo Franco , G. Montani

We show why the universe started in an unstable de Sitter state. The quantum origin of our universe implies one must take a `top down' approach to the problem of initial conditions in cosmology, in which the histories that contribute to the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 S. W. Hawking , Thomas Hertog

We discuss supersymmetric $SU(2)$ gauge theory with a single matter field in the $I=3/2$ representation. This theory has a moduli space of exactly degenerate vacua. Classically it is the complex plane with an orbifold singularity at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-15 K. Intriligator , N. Seiberg , S. H. Shenker

A realist description of our universe requires a twofold concept of locality. On one hand, there are the strictly Einstein-local interactions which generate the time evolution. On the other hand, the quantum state space calls for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-27 Andreas O. Tell

We explore a simple toy model of interacting universes to establish that a small baby universe could become large ($\gg$ Planck length) if a third quantization mechanism is taken into account.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Marco Cavaglia`

This work discusses simple examples how quantum systems are obtained as subsystems of classical statistical systems. For a single qubit with arbitrary Hamiltonian and for the quantum particle in a harmonic potential we provide explicitly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-14 C. Wetterich

We formulate the transition from decelerated to accelerated expansion as a bounce in connection space and study its quantum cosmology, knowing that reflections are notorious for bringing quantum effects to the fore. We use a formalism for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-18 Steffen Gielen , João Magueijo

In this paper we have given a generalisation of the earlier work by Prigogine et al. who have constructed a phenomenological model of entropy production via particle creation in the very early universe generated out of the vacuum rather…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 G. K. Goswami , Mandwi Trivedi

An appealing theory is that our current patch of universe was born as a nucleation bubble from a phase of false vacuum eternal inflation. We search for evidence for this theory by looking for the signal imprinted on the CMB that is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-13 Stephen Osborne , Leonardo Senatore , Kendrick Smith

We discuss a model where a spontaneous quantum collapse is induced by the gravitational interaction, treated classically. Its dynamics couples the standard wave function of a system with the Bohmian positions of its particles, which are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 F. Laloë

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

We introduce the set of constraints the wave function of the Universe has to satisfy in order to describe an Universe undergoing through the process of spontaneous breaking of supersymmetry and discuss the way this may lead to the emergence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Bertolami , P. V. Moniz