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The condensed matter examples, in which the effective gravity appears in the low-energy corner as one of the collective modes of quantum vacuum, provide a possible answer to the question, why the vacuum energy is so small. This answer comes…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. E. Volovik

A modified-gravity theory is considered with a four-form field strength F, a variable gravitational coupling parameter G(F), and a standard matter action. This theory provides a concrete realization of the general vacuum variable q as the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 F. R. Klinkhamer , G. E. Volovik

The structure of quantum vacuum in presence of gravity, and the corresponding vacuum energy density $\rho_{v}$, is expected to depend on the coupling between the UV scale $\ell_\mathrm{\textsf{UV}}$ and spacetime curvature. We determine…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-30 Dawood Kothawala

A new approach to generalised Casimir type of problems is derived within the context of renormalisable quantum field theory (QFT). We study the simplest case of a massive fluctuating boson field coupled to a time-independent background…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Markus Quandt

We suggest that the solution to the cosmological vacuum energy puzzle is linked to the infrared sector of the effective theory of gravity interacting with standard model fields, with QCD fields specifically. We work in the framework of low…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Federico R. Urban , Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

Although the observed universe appears to be geometrically flat, it could have one of 18 global topologies. A constant-time slice of the spacetime manifold could be a torus, Mobius strip, Klein bottle, or others. This global topology of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 P. M. Sutter , Tsunefumi Tanaka

The cosmological constant is normally introduced as an additional term entering the Einstein-Hilbert (EH) action. In this letter we demonstrate that instead, it appears naturally from the standard EH action as an invariant term emerging…

General Physics · Physics 2024-12-19 Ivan Arraut

In a recent article we showed that the analog of the cosmological constant in two spacetime dimensions for a wide variety of integrable quantum field theories has the form $\rho_{\rm vac} = - m^2 /2 \mathfrak{g} $ where $m$ is a physical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-15 André LeClair

The failure to calculate the vacuum energy is a central problem in theoretical physics. Presumably the problem arises from the insistent use of effective field theory reasoning in a context that is well beyond its intended scope. If one…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-28 Laurent Freidel , Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman , Robert G. Leigh , Djordje Minic

In this paper we calculate the zero point energy density experienced by observers on M^4 due to a massless scalar field defined throughout M^4 x T^2_F, where T^2_F are fuzzy extra dimensions. Using the Green's function approach we calculate…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Fabi , B. Harms , G. Karatheodoris

A diverse set of observations now compellingly suggest that Universe possesses a nonzero cosmological constant. In the context of quantum-field theory a cosmological constant corresponds to the energy density of the vacuum, and the wanted…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Lawrence M. Krauss , Michael S. Turner

In present paper the gravitational effect of spontaneous symmetry breaking vacuum energy density is investigated by subtracting the flat space-time contribution from the energy in the curved space-time. We found that the remain effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-30 Kang Zhou , Rui-Hong Yue , Zhan-Ying Yang , De-Cheng Zou

The theoretical vacuum energy density estimated on the basis of the Standard Model of particle physics and very general quantum assumptions is 59 to 123 orders of magnitude larger than the measured vacuum energy density for the observable…

General Physics · Physics 2016-07-04 R. L. Oldershaw

Adopting the q-theory approach to the cosmological constant problem, a simple field-theoretic model is presented which generates an effective cosmological constant (remnant vacuum energy density) of the observed order of magnitude,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-11 F. R. Klinkhamer

There is now strong evidence that the main contribution to the cosmic energy density is not due to matter, but to another component with negative pressure. Its nature is still unknown: it could be the vacuum energy, manifesting itself as a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alberto Cappi

The behavior of the gravitating vacuum energy density in an expanding universe is discussed. A scenario is presented with a step-wise relaxation of the vacuum energy density. The vacuum energy density moves from plateau to plateau and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-10-04 F. R. Klinkhamer , G. E. Volovik

Using q-theory, we show that the electroweak crossover can generate a remnant vacuum energy density \Lambda \sim E_{ew}^8 / E_{planck}^4, with effective electroweak energy scale E_{ew} \sim 10^{3} GeV and reduced Planck-energy scale…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-15 F. R. Klinkhamer , G. E. Volovik

The quartic-divergent vacuum energy poses an ultraviolet (UV) challenge (the cosmological constant problem) in probing the nature of dark energy. Here we try to evaluate the contribution of the vacuum energy to dark energy with a method of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-25 Lian-Bao Jia

In the study of quantum vacuum energy and the Casimir effect, it is desirable to model the conductor by a potential of the form $V(z)=z^\alpha$. This "soft wall" model was proposed so as to avoid the violation of the principle of virtual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-09 Agam Shayit , S. A. Fulling , T. E. Settlemyre , Joseph Merritt

In the work's considered density of vacuum energy and dynamic of scalar field in multidimensional theory with cosmological constant. Using method of N.N.Bogolubov coefficients, was gotten expression for influence of anisotropic metric to…

General Physics · Physics 2012-03-05 Sergey Yakovlev