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The Euclidean or Bunch-Davies O(4,1) invariant 'vacuum' state of quantum fields in global de Sitter space is shown to be unstable to small perturbations, even for a massive free field with no self-interactions. There are perturbations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-28 Paul R. Anderson , Emil Mottola

We compute the holographic complexity of conformal quantum fields in rigid global de Sitter spacetime (dS$_{d}$) using the volume and action prescriptions. First we consider AdS$_{d+1}$ spacetime in global dS$_{d}$ foliations, and compute…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-12 Sanhita Parihar , Shubho R. Roy

Solutions of the system of evolutionary equations in the short-wavelength approximation are found and studied. A connection is established between the problem of the evolution of short-wavelength gravitational-scalar perturbations and the…

General Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Yu. G. Ignat'ev

We consider a quantum deformation of the wave equation on a cosmological background as a toy-model for possible trans-Planckian effects. We compute the power spectrum of scalar and tensor fluctuations for power-law inflation, and find a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Sera Cremonini

Thermalization of chaotic quantum many-body systems under unitary time evolution is related to the growth in complexity of initially simple Heisenberg operators. Operator growth is a manifestation of information scrambling and can be…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-19 Shenglong Xu , Brian Swingle

We address the question of unitary implementation of the dynamics for scalar fields in cosmological scenarios. Together with invariance under spatial isometries, the requirement of a unitary evolution singles out a rescaling of the scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-16 Jeronimo Cortez , Guillermo A. Mena Marugan , Jose M. Velhinho

We treat the effects of quantum field fluctuations on the decay of a meta-stable state of a self-coupled scalar field. We consider two varieties of field fluctuations and their potential effects in a semiclassical description. The first are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-03 Haiyun Huang , L. H. Ford

We study the time evolution of a wave function for the spatially flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker universe governed by the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in both analytical and numerical methods. We consider a Brown-Kuchar dust as a matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-14 Hideki Maeda

We consider the relations between nonstationary quantum oscillators and their stationary counterpart in view of their applicability to study particles in electromagnetic traps. We develop a consistent model of quantum oscillators with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 Kevin Zelaya , Oscar Rosas-Ortiz

We establish formulae for the asymptotic growth (with respect to the scaling dimension) of the number of operators in effective field theory, or equivalently the number of $S$-matrix elements, in arbitrary spacetime dimensions and with…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-19 Tom Melia , Sridip Pal

We compute the primordial scalar, vector and tensor metric perturbations arising from quantum field inflation. Quantum field inflation takes into account the nonperturbative quantum dynamics of the inflaton consistently coupled to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. J. Cao , H. J. de Vega , N. G. Sanchez

A quantum field has been coupled to a space-time with accelerating expansion. Dynamical modes are destabilised successively at shorter material wavelengths as they metamorphose from oscillators to repellers. Due to degeneracy of energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-29 Philip Broadbridge , Sarah Becirevic , David Hoxley

We consider N identical oscillators coupled to a single environment and show that the conditions for the existence of decoherence free subspaces are degeneracy of the oscillator frequencies and separability of the coupling with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. M. Fonseca Romero , S. G. Mokarzel , M. C. Nemes

The effects of a coupling between the quantized mechanical vibrations of a quantum dot and coherent tunneling of electrons through a single level in the dot are studied. The equation of motion for the reduced density operator describing the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-31 D. Fedorets , L. Y. Gorelik , R. I. Shekhter , M. Jonson

We investigate the propagation of arbitrarily coupled scalar fields on the $N$-dimensional hyperbolic space ${\mathbb H}^N$. Using the $\zeta$-function regularization we compute exactly the one loop effective action. The vacuum expectation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Marco M. Caldarelli

The dynamics of time-dependent coupled oscillator model for the charged particle motion subjected to a time-dependent external magnetic field is investigated. We used canonical transformation approach for the classical treatment of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Salah Menouar , Mustapha Maamache , Jeong Ryeol Choi

We discuss the effect of quantum stress tensor fluctuations in deSitter spacetime upon the expansion of a congruence of timelike geodesics. We treat a model in which the expansion fluctuations begin on a given hypersurface in deSitter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Chun-Hsien Wu , Kin-Wang Ng , L. H. Ford

In quantum mechanics, the operator representing the displacement of a system in position or momentum is always accompanied by a path-dependent phase factor. In particular, two non-parallel displacements in phase space do not compose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Amar C. Vutha , Eliot A. Bohr , Anthony Ransford , Wesley C. Campbell , Paul Hamilton

The paper is devoted to the theoretical investigation of time dependences of quantum oscillator excitation by electromagnetic pulses for arbitrary values of field amplitude in the pulse. We consider the harmonic oscillator without…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-09-10 V. A. Astapenko , F. B. Rosmej , E. V. Sakhno

The stochastic dynamics of a scalar field in de Sitter spacetime can be regarded as a non-perturbative diffusion process, to which exact distribution and correlation functions are constructed by utilising the correspondence between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-26 Yuta Nasuda , Koki Tokeshi , Yuki Watanabe