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We consider a massless, minimally coupled quantum scalar field theory with an asymmetric self interaction, $V (\phi) = \lambda\phi^4/4!+\beta\phi^3/3!$ ($\lambda >0$) in the inflationary de Sitter spacetime. The potential is bounded from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-05 Sourav Bhattacharya , Nitin Joshi

A well-established result in quantum field theory in four-dimensional de Sitter space is that the vacuum state of a massless scalar field breaks the de Sitter isometry group, leading to time-dependent (secular) growth in correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-09 Gonzalo A. Palma , Spyros Sypsas , Danilo Tapia

We consider an infrared truncated massive minimally coupled scalar field with an asymmetric self-interaction $\frac{m^2}{2}\varphi^2\!+\!\frac{\lambda\varphi^4}{4!}\!+\!\frac{\beta\varphi^3}{3!}(\lambda\!>\!0)$ during a cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 G. Karakaya

We employ stochastic quantization for a self-interacting nonminimal massive scalar field in curved spacetime. The covariant background field method and local momentum space representation are used to obtain the Euclidean correlation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-25 Eduardo Antonio dos Reis , Gastão Krein , Tibério de Paula Netto , Ilya L. Shapiro

We consider, in more details than it was done previously, the effective low-energy behavior in the quantum theory of a light scalar field coupled to another scalar with much larger mass. The main target of our work is an IR decoupling of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-29 Tiago G. Ribeiro , Ilya L. Shapiro

The evolution of gauge invariant second-order scalar perturbations in a general single field inflationary scenario are presented. Different second order gauge invariant expressions for the curvature are considered. We evaluate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Finelli , G. Marozzi , G. P. Vacca , G. Venturi

The second-order formula of Minkowski functionals in weakly non-Gaussian fields is compared with the numerical $N$-body simulations. Recently, weakly non-Gaussian formula of Minkowski functionals is extended to include the second-order…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-03 Takahiko Matsubara , Chiaki Hikage , Satoshi Kuriki

We apply the S-matrix formalism developed in Part I to the interacting scalar theory in four-dimensional de Sitter spacetime. The amplitudes are computed in the angular momentum basis, appropriate to the representations of $SO(1,4)$ de…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-01 Tomasz R. Taylor , Bin Zhu

We study the relation between two sets of correlators in interacting quantum field theory on de Sitter space. The first are correlators computed using in-in perturbation theory in the expanding cosmological patch of de Sitter space (also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-17 Atsushi Higuchi , Donald Marolf , Ian A. Morrison

We build an effective field theory of multi-field inflationary fluctuations based on the adiabatic perturbation and on any number of matter fluctuations in the non-adiabatic sector, without imposing extra symmetries on the latter. Focusing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-06 Lucas Pinol

We use the auxiliary fields and (excited-) de Sitter solutions to study the standard power spectrum of primordial fluctuations of a scalar field in the early universe. The auxiliary fields are the negative norm solutions of the field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-16 M. Mohsenzadeh , M. R. Tanhayi , E. Yusofi

We set up a consistent renormalizable perturbation theory of a scalar field in a nontrivial alpha vacuum in de Sitter space. Although one representation of the effective action involves non-local interactions between anti-podal points, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-05 Kevin Goldstein , David A. Lowe

We present the extension of the effective field theory framework to the mildly non-linear scales. The effective field theory approach has been successfully applied to the late time cosmic acceleration phenomenon and it has been shown to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-20 Noemi Frusciante , Georgios Papadomanolakis

We restrict our attention to space-time point pattern data for which we have a single realisation within a finite region. Second-order characteristics are used to analyse the spatio-temporal structure of the underlying point process. In…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2013-04-29 Edith Gabriel

I present the procedure for integrating out quantum fields whose mass M is well above the Hubble scale H in de Sitter space. The effective interaction and density matrix are explicitly computed for a simple example and are found to be of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-03-20 Mark G. Jackson

We explore non-adiabatic particle production in a de Sitter universe for a scalar spectator field, by allowing the effective mass $m^2(t)$ of this field and the cosmic time interval between non-adiabatic events to vary stochastically. Two…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-15 Marcos A. G. Garcia , Mustafa A. Amin , Scott G. Carlsten , Daniel Green

The van der Waals interaction between neutral atoms is typically studied using stationary perturbation theory for the short-distance (London) limit, while long-distance (Casimir-Polder) results are usually derived via semiclassical,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 L. Saba , C. D. Fosco

Two-parameter perturbation theory is a scheme tailor-made to consistently include nonlinear density contrasts on small scales ($<100\; \mathrm{Mpc}$), whilst retaining a traditional approach to cosmological perturbations in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-18 Christopher Gallagher , Timothy Clifton , Chris Clarkson

This paper deals with iteration stable (STIT) tessellations, and, more generally, with a certain class of tessellations that are infinitely divisible with respect to iteration. They form a new, rich and flexible class of spatio-temporal…

Probability · Mathematics 2013-03-04 Tomasz Schreiber , Christoph Thaele

The second-order Green's function method (GF2) was shown recently to be an accurate self-consistent approach for electronic structure of correlated systems since the self-energy accounts for both the weak and some of the strong correlation.…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-03-31 Daniel Neuhauser , Roi Baer , Dominika Zgid