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We present our recent studies on thermal field theories using quantum algorithms. We first delve into the representation of quantum fields via qubits on general digital quantum computers alongside the quantum algorithms employed to evaluate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Iván Cuntín , Wenyang Qian , Bin Wu

We consider the time evolution of systems in which a spatially homogeneous scalar field is coupled to fermions. The quantum back-reaction is taken into account in one-loop approximation. We set up the basic equations and their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 Juergen Baacke , Katrin Heitmann , Carsten Patzold

Inspired by various quantum gravity approaches, we explore quantum field theory where spacetime exhibits scaling properties and dimensional reduction with changing energy scales, effectively behaving as a multifractal manifold. Working…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Alessio Maiezza , Juan Carlos Vasquez

We present a detailed Hamiltonian treatment of an inhomogeneous fermionic perturbation propagating on a closed FLRW spacetime quantized via LQC. Expanding the fermion in spinor harmonics on spatial 3-sphere and truncating at quadratic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-02 Yaser Tavakoli , Ahad K. Ardabili , Sara Mosaddegh

We investigate the application of deformation quantization to the system of a free particle evolving within a universe described by a Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) geometry. This approach allows us to analyze the dynamics of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-19 Alfonso F. Bobadilla , Jose A. R. Cembranos

Relativistic quantum field theory (QFT) is commonly formulated in terms of operators, asymptotic states, and covariant amplitudes, a perspective that tends to obscure the real-time origin of field dynamics and correlations. Here we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-05 Yong Zhang

Four-fermion interaction models are considered to be prototype models for dynamical symmetry breaking.The present review deals with recent developments in the studies of dynamical symmetry breaking in the four-fermion interaction models and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 T. Inagaki , T. Muta , S. D. Odintsov

The formalism for histories-based generalized quantum mechanics developed in two earlier papers is applied to the treatment of histories (of particles or fields or more general objects) in curved spacetimes (which need not admit foliation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Tulsi Dass , Yogesh N. Joglekar

The description of black holes in loop quantum gravity is a hard and tricky task. In this article, we focus on a minisuperspace approach based on a polymerization procedure. We consider the resulting effective metric and study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Flora Moulin , Killian Martineau , Julien Grain , Aurélien Barrau

A noncommutative geometric generalisation of the quantum field theoretical framework is developed by generalising the Heisenberg commutation relations. There appear nonzero minimal uncertainties in positions and in momenta. As the main…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 A. Kempf

Complicated time-dependent curved spacetime and electric field are involved in many astrophysical situations, including the early universe, Hawking radiation, the Schwinger effect, and gravitational pair production. In this Letter, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-18 Orkash Amat , Nurimangul Nurmamat , Yong-Feng Huang , Cheng-Ming Li , Jin-Jun Geng , Chen-RanHu , Ze-Cheng Zou , Xiao-Fei Dong , Chen Deng , Fan Xu , Xiao-li Zhang , Chen Du

A quantum theory of asymptotically flat space-times is presented using the solutions of the Null Surface Formulation (NSF) field equations in a perturbative scheme. Free-field commutation relations are given for the null free data of NSF at…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-30 Carlos N. Kozameh , Lautaro Zapata-Altuna

Quantum field theory (QFT) on fractal spacetimes is a program aiming at quantizing the gravitational interaction consistently at all energy scales thanks to an intrinsically or dynamically induced multiscale or multifractal-like spacetime…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-26 Fabio Briscese , Gianluca Calcagni

The soft breaking of gauge or other symmetries is the typical Quantum Field Theory phenomenon. In many cases one can apply the Stuckelberg procedure, which means introducing some additional field (or fields) and restore the gauge symmetry.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-13 G. de Berredo-Peixoto

Causal fermion systems are introduced as a general mathematical framework for formulating relativistic quantum theory. By specializing, we recover earlier notions like fermion systems in discrete space-time, the fermionic projector and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-06-17 Felix Finster , Andreas Grotz , Daniela Schiefeneder

The concept of a particle is ambiguous in quantum field theory. It is generally agreed that particles depend not only on spacetime, but also on coordinates used to parametrise spacetime points. One of us has in contrast proposed a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 V. A. Emelyanov , D. Robertz

To make sense of quantum field theory in an arbitrary (globally hyperbolic) curved spacetime, the theory must be formulated in a local and covariant manner in terms of locally measureable field observables. Since a generic curved spacetime…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Hollands , R. M. Wald

While Quantum Gravity remains elusive and Quantum Field Theory retains the interpretational difficulties of Quantum Mechanics, we have introduced an alternate approach to the unification of particles, fields, space and time, suggesting that…

General Physics · Physics 2012-11-21 Yousef Ghazi-Tabatabai

Quantum field theory in curved spacetimes suffers in general from an infinite ambiguity in the choice of Fock representation and associated vacuum. In cosmological backgrounds, the requirement of a unitary implementation of the field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-04-20 Luis J. Garay , Alberto García Martín-Caro , Mercedes Martín-Benito

We report on recent results obtained by analyzing axion--photon mixing in the framework of quantum field theory. We obtain corrections to the oscillation formulae and we reveal a new effect of the vacuum polarization due to the non-zero…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Antonio Capolupo