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The recent observations of type Ia supernovae strongly support that the universe is accelerating now and decelerated in the recent past. By assuming a general relation between the quintessence potential and the quintessence kinetic energy,…

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Recently, the observed equation of state for dark energy appears to favor values below $-1$. The tendency implies that the nature of dark energy may be quite different from that of the cosmological constant. In view of the adjustment on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-13 Yu-Ping Teng , Wolung Lee , Kin-Wang Ng

We present a study of the IR behaviour of a three-dimensional super-renormalisable quantum field theory (QFT) consisting of a scalar field in the adjoint of $SU(N)$ with a $\varphi^4$ interaction. A bare mass is required for the theory to…

Quantum inequalities (QI's) provide lower bounds on the averaged energy density of a quantum field. We show how the QI's for massless scalar fields in even dimensional Minkowski space may be reformulated in terms of the positivity of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Christopher J. Fewster , Edward Teo

Quantum imaginary-time evolution (QITE) is a fundamental framework for preparing ground and thermal states, yet its computational cost scales significantly with the evolution duration $\tau$. Reducing this duration is critical for practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Yumeng Zeng , Jeongrak Son , Mile Gu , Xiao Yuan

Recent work of Fu, Koeller, and Marolf shows that in $d\geq 5$ dimensions a nonzero Gauss-Bonnet coupling of either sign can lead to a pointwise violation of the Quantum Focusing Conjecture. This violation is due to the classical geometric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-05-17 Stefan Leichenauer

The aim of this review is to outline a full route from the fundamental principles of algebraic quantum field theory on curved spacetime in its present-day form to explicit phenomenological applications which allow for comparison with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-09-02 Klaus Fredenhagen , Thomas-Paul Hack

The QED(0+1) model describing a quantum mechanical particle on a circle with minimal electromagnetic interaction and with a potential -M cos(phi - theta_M), which mimics the massive Schwinger model, is discussed as a prototype of mechanisms…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 J. Loeffelholz , G. Morchio , F. Strocchi

Entanglement in random states has turned into a useful approach to quantum thermalization and black hole physics. In this article, we refine and extend the `random unitaries framework' to quantum field theories (QFT), and to include…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-02 Javier M. Magan , Stefan Vandoren

Quantum computing is a relatively new field of computing, which utilises the fundamental concepts of quantum mechanics to process data. The seminal paper of Moore et al. [2000] introduced quantum grammars wherein a set of amplitudes was…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Merina Aruja , Lisa Mathew , Jayakrishna Vijayakumar

A variant of the von Neumann-Wigner Interpretation is proposed. It does not make use of the familiar language of wave functions and observers. Instead it pictures the state of the physical world as a vector in a Fock space and, therefore…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Chris Allen Broka

It is shown that the averaged null energy condition is fulfilled for a dense, translationally invariant set of vector states in any local quantum field theory in two-dimensional Minkowski spacetime whenever the theory has a mass gap and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Rainer Verch

Quantum electrodynamics in 2+1-dimensions (QED$_3$) is a strongly coupled conformal field theory (CFT) of a U(1) gauge field coupled to $2N$ two-component massless fermions. The $N=2$ CFT has been proposed as a ground state of the spin-1/2…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-05 Alex Thomson , Subir Sachdev

By putting a confined inter source, we construct a model which can give us convergent solution from free field equation. On the other hand, the solution of new field equation can be separated into two parts, one part is just same as the one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Gang Zhao

A quantum Dirac field theory with no divergences of vacuum energy is presented. The vacuum energy divergence is eliminated by removing a extra degree of freedom of the Dirac fields. The conditions for removing the extra degree of freedom,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Ruo Peng Wang

The behaviour of quantum systems in non-inertial frames is revisited from the point of view of affine coherent state (ACS) quantization. We restrict our approach to the one-particle dynamics confined in a rotating plane about a fixed axis.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-10 J. -P. Gazeau , T. Koide , R. Murenzi

The interpretation of quantum mechanics has been discussed since this theme first was brought up by Einstein and Bohr. This article describes a proposal for a new foundation of quantum theory, partly drawing upon ideas from statistical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-17 Inge S. Helland

This note summarizes a model-independent analysis of the age of the universe problem that trades off precision in favour of robustness: The energy conditions of Einstein gravity are designed to extract as much information as possible from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 Matt Visser

The effective potential of scalar quantum electrodynamics with N flavors of complex scalar fields is studied, by performing a self consistent 1/N expansion up to next to leading order in $1/N$. Starting from the broken phase at zero…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Carena , C. E. M. Wagner

Although quantum field theory allows local negative energy densities and fluxes, it also places severe restrictions upon the magnitude and extent of the negative energy. The restrictions take the form of quantum inequalities. These…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 L. H. Ford , Thomas A. Roman