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As distinct from the black hole physics, the de Sitter thermodynamics is not determined by the cosmological horizon, the effective temperature differs from the Hawking temperature. In particular, the atom in the de Sitter universe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-22 G. E. Volovik

We study evolution and thermodynamics of a slow-roll transition between early and late time de Sitter phases, both in the homogeneous case and in the presence of a black hole, in a scalar field model with a generic potential having both a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Ruth Gregory , David Kastor , Jennie Traschen

In the framework of open quantum systems, we study the geometric phase acquired by freely falling and static two-level atoms interacting with quantized conformally coupled massless scalar fields in de Sitter-invariant vacuum. We find that,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-15 Zehua Tian , Jiliang Jing

The entire classical cosmological history between two extreme de Sitter vacuum solutions is discussed based on Einstein's equations and non-equilibrium thermodynamics. The initial non-singular de Sitter state is characterised by a very high…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-02 P. E. M. Almeida , R. C. Santos , J. A. S. Lima

An imperfect cosmic fluid with energy flux is analyzed. Even though its energy density $\rho$ is positive, the pressure $p = -\rho$ due to the fact that the metric is asymptotically de Sitter. The kinematical quantities for a nongeodesic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Hristu Culetu

Describing open quantum systems far from equilibrium is challenging, in particular when the environment is mesoscopic, when it develops nonequilibrium features during the evolution, or when the memory effects cannot be disregarded. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Andreu Riera-Campeny , Anna Sanpera , Philipp Strasberg

We investigate, how finite temperature influences quantum coherence in multipartite open systems by analyzing a tripartite spin boson model subjected to non-Markovian dephasing. Two distinct environmental configurations are considered viz.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Pranav Perumalsamy , Abhijit Mandal , Sovik Roy , Md Manirul Ali

The Euclidean Schwarzschild-de Sitter geometry may be considered as an extremum of two different action principles. If the thermodynamical parameters are held fixed at the cosmological horizon, one deals with the gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Claudio Teitelboim

The quantum tunneling process of decay of the composite particle in the de Sitter vacuum looks as thermal radiation with the effective temperature twice larger than the Hawking temperature associated with the cosmological horizon.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-22 G. E. Volovik

We examine the thermodynamic behaviour of four-dimensional charged and uncharged de Sitter black holes enclosed in an isothermal cavity, in the extended phase space where the cosmological constant is treated as a thermodynamic pressure. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-22 Fil Simovic , Robert. B. Mann

In this paper, we examine the thermodynamic behavior of a quantum harmonic oscillator with a position-dependent mass (PDM), where spatial inhomogeneity is modeled through a deformation parameter {\alpha}. Based on the exact energy spectrum,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Daniel Sabi Takou , Assimiou Yarou Mora , Gabriel Y. H. Avossevou

We analyze noncommutative deformations of a higher dimensional anti-de Sitter-Einstein-Born-Infeld black hole. Two models based on noncommutative inspired distributions of mass and charge are discussed and their thermodynamical properties…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-01 Angélica González , Román Linares , Marco Maceda , Oscar Sánchez-Santos

Quantum de Sitter geometry is discussed using elementary field operator algebras in Krein space quantization from an observer-independent point of view, {\it i.e.} ambient space formalism. In quantum geometry, the conformal sector of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-06 Mohammad Vahid Takook

We investigate infrared logarithms in de Sitter space from holographic perspective. We employ a gravitational Fokker-Planck equation to investigate the time evolution of the de Sitter entropy $S=\pi/(G_N H^2)$, where $H$ is the Hubble…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-30 Hiroyuki Kitamoto , Yoshihisa Kitazawa

We investigate the thermodynamical properties of quantum fields in curved spacetime. Our approach is to consider quantum fields in curved spacetime as a quantum system undergoing an out-of-equilibrium transformation. The non-equilibrium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-14 Nana Liu , John Goold , Ivette Fuentes , Vlatko Vedral , Kavan Modi , David Edward Bruschi

Quantized fields (e.g., the graviton itself) in de Sitter (dS) spacetime lead to particle production: specifically, we consider a thermal spectrum resulting from the dS (horizon) temperature. The energy required to excite these particles…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-20 Chiu Man Ho , Stephen D. H. Hsu

We study, in the framework of open quantum systems, the entanglement generation between two mutually independent static two-level atoms in de Sitter spacetime. We treat the two-atom system as an open system in interaction with a bath of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-14 Jiawei Hu , Hongwei Yu

Thermodynamics entails a set of mathematical conditions on quantum Markovian dynamics. In particular, strict energy conservation between the system and environment implies that the dissipative dynamical map commutes with the unitary system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Roie Dann , Ronnie Kosloff

We analyse the laws of thermodynamics governing the behaviour of cosmological horizons in de Sitter space and their map to a holographic description at future infinity, $\mathcal{I}^+$. In this case, the boundary can receive signals from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-29 Indranil Dey , Kanhu Kishore Nanda , Akashdeep Roy , Deepak Kumar Sharma , Sandip P. Trivedi

How quantum coherence influences thermodynamic behavior remains an open question in quantum thermodynamics. Here we investigate this relation within the pure dephasing framework, where a central qubit interacts with a finite Ising-like spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Marino P. Lenzarini , Diogo O. Soares-Pinto