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We give a technique for calculating the occupation number of quantum fields in time-dependent backgrounds by using the relation between one-dimensional {\em quantum} oscillators and two-dimensional {\em classical} oscillators. We illustrate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-08 Matthew Kolopanis , Tanmay Vachaspati

In Schroedinger picture we study the possible effects of trans-Planckian physics on the quantum evolution of massive non-minimally coupled scalar field in de Sitter space. For the nonlinear Corley-Jacobson type dispersion relations with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-30 Jung-Jeng Huang

We study the fundamentals of quantum field theory on a rigid de Sitter space. We show that the perturbative expansion of late-time correlation functions to all orders can be equivalently generated by a non-unitary Lagrangian on a Euclidean…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-09 Lorenzo Di Pietro , Victor Gorbenko , Shota Komatsu

We perform a detailed analysis of the behavior of coherent and squeezed states undergoing time evolution. We calculate time dependence of expectation values of position and momentum in coherent and squeezed states (which can be interpreted…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Ziemowit Domański , Maciej Błaszak

We propose how to compute the complexity of operators generated by Hamiltonians in quantum field theory (QFT) and quantum mechanics (QM). The Hamiltonians in QFT/QM and quantum circuit have a few essential differences, for which we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Run-Qiu Yang , Keun-Young Kim

A finite number of harmonic oscillators coupled to infinitely many environment oscillators is fundamental to the problem of understanding quantum dissipation of a small system immersed in a large environment. Exact operator solution as a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 I. Joichi , Sh. Matsumoto , M. Yoshimura

The present paper tries to answer the question: Can a de Sitter phase in presence of radiation be a competitor of the standard inflationary paradigm for the early universe? This kind of a de Sitter phase can exist in cosmological models…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-08-03 Kaushik Bhattacharya , Anirban Chatterjee , Saddam Hussain

Heisenberg time evolution under a chaotic many-body Hamiltonian $H$ transforms an initially simple operator into an increasingly complex one, as it spreads over Hilbert space. Krylov complexity, or `K-complexity', quantifies this growth…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-06-30 E. Rabinovici , A. Sánchez-Garrido , R. Shir , J. Sonner

The unitary operator which transforms a harmonic oscillator system of time-dependent frequency into that of a simple harmonic oscillator of different time-scale is found, with and without an inverse-square potential. It is shown that for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Dae-Yup Song

We study a class of perturbative scalar quantum field theories where dynamics is characterized by Lorentz-invariant or Lorentz-breaking non-local operators of fractional order and the underlying spacetime has a varying spectral dimension.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-16 Gianluca Calcagni

We consider the consequences of global higher-spin symmetries in quantum field theories on a fixed de Sitter background of spacetime dimension $D \ge 3$. These symmetries enhance the symmetry group associated with the isometries of the de…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-22 Renato Costa , Ian A. Morrison

We compute the circuit complexity of scalar curvature perturbations on FLRW cosmological backgrounds with fixed equation of state $w$ using the language of squeezed vacuum states. Backgrounds that are accelerating and expanding, or…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-24 Arpan Bhattacharyya , Saurya Das , S. Shajidul Haque , Bret Underwood

Previous work has explored the connections between three concepts -- operator size, complexity, and the bulk radial momentum of an infalling object -- in the context of JT gravity and the SYK model. In this paper we investigate the higher…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-30 Leonard Susskind , Ying Zhao

Loop quantum cosmology was shown to interpolate between de Sitter and FLRW Universe phases through a bounce by including Euclidean and Lorentzian terms of the Hamiltonian constraint with weight one -that corresponding to classical General…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-04-01 Omar Gallegos , Tonatiuh Matos , Hugo A. Morales-Técotl

In this paper, we wish to point out the possibility of using a complex scalar field to account for the inflationary stage and the current acceleration. By the analysis of the dynamical system and numerical work, we show that the amplitude…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 Xiang-hua Zhai , Yi-bin Zhao

We consider the quantum dynamics of a massless scalar field in de Sitter space-time. The classical evolution is represented by a canonical transformation on the phase space for the field theory. By studying the corresponding Bogoliubov…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel Gómez Vergel , Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor

We obtain the complexity geometry associated with the Hamiltonian of a quantum mechanical system, specifically in cases where the Hamiltonian is explicitly time-dependent. Using Nielsen's geometric formulation of circuit complexity, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Kunal Pal , Kuntal Pal

We construct a time-dependent expression of the computational complexity of a quantum system which consists of two conformal complex scalar field theories in d dimensions coupled to constant electric potentials and defined on the boundaries…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-29 Musema Sinamuli , Robert B. Mann

In this brief note we present a set of equations describing the evolution of perturbed scalar fields in a cosmological spacetime with multiple scalar fields. We take into account of the simultaneously excited full metric perturbations in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Hwang

A calculation of the one-mode occupation numbers for vacuum fluctuations of massive fields in De Sitter space shows that their use for the generation of classical density perturbations in inflationary cosmology very much depends on their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Milan Mijic