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The explicit expression of ergotropy (a.k.a. available energy) of a classical system is known for the case when the system phase space density is continuous and with no plateaus. Here we provide the general expression of ergotropy that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-31 Michele Campisi

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

After a short essay on the current state of particle physics, I review the antecedents of the modern picture of the weak and electromagnetic interactions and then undertake a brief survey of the $SU(2)_{L}\otimes U(1)_{Y}$ electroweak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-29 Chris Quigg

Within the general framework of $f(R)$ gravity, we introduce a function of the electromagnetic curvature invariant $f(\mathbb{F})$ that couples minimally to gravitation to ensure a consistent treatment of curvature functions in these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-19 Francesco Bajardi , Micol Benetti , Salvatore Capozziello , Abedennour Dib

Geometrical model for quantum objects is suggested. It is shown that equations for free material Dirac field and for Maxwell electromagnetic field can be considered as relations describing propagation of the space topological defects. This…

General Physics · Physics 2008-02-18 O. A. Olkhov

The ER=EPR conjecture states that quantum entanglement between boundary degrees of freedom leads to the emergence of bulk spacetime itself. Although this has been tested extensively in String Theory for asymptotically anti-de Sitter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-21 Suddhasattwa Brahma , Lucas Hackl , Moatsem Hassan , Xiancong Luo

It is shown that gravitational coupling creates inertia for the electron. The coupling term does not mix right- and left-handed spinor components. Therefore, the corresponding electroweak term is invariant under U(1) X SU(2)_L gauge…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kenneth Dalton

Both in electroweak theory and QCD, the vacuum in strong magnetic fields develops charged vector condensates once a critical value of the magnetic field is reached. Both ground states have a similar Abrikosov lattice structure and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-04 M. N. Chernodub , J. Van Doorsselaere , H. Verschelde

Reformulation of the Dirac equation in terms of the real Spacetime Algebra (STA) reveals hidden geometric structure, including a geometric role for the unit imaginary as generator of rotations in a spacelike plane. The STA and the real…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 David Hestenes

We derive the gravitational dynamics of the tensorial geometry which underlies the most general linear theory of electrodynamics that features weak birefringence in vacuo. This derivation is performed by way of gravitational closure, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-15 Jonas Schneider , Frederic P. Schuller , Nadine Stritzelberger , Florian Wolz

The possibility of the extension of spatial diffeomorphisms to a larger family of symmetries in a class of classical field theories is studied. The generator of the additional local symmetry contains a quadratic kinetic term and a potential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-05-18 Szilard Farkas , Emil J. Martinec

Renewed interest in deriving gravity (more precisely, the Einstein equations) from thermodynamics considerations [1, 2] is stirred up by a recent proposal that 'gravity is an entropic force' [3] (see also [4]). Even though I find the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-25 B. L. Hu

We describe how 4d de Sitter vacua might emerge from 11d heterotic M-theory. Non-perturbative effects and $G$-fluxes play a crucial role leading to vacua with F-term supersymmetry breaking and a positive energy density. Charged scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Axel Krause

In the current density functional theory of linear and nonlinear time-dependent phenomena, the treatment of exchange and correlation beyond the level of the adiabatic local density approximation is shown to lead to the appearance of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 G. Vignale , C. A. Ullrich , S. Conti

We investigate the physical properties of the de Sitter spacetime and new type-de Sitter black holes in new massive gravity, a higher derivative gravity theory in three dimensions. We calculate thermodynamic quantities and check that the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-17 Yongjoon Kwon , Soonkeon Nam , Jong-Dae Park

Since the general theory of relativity (GR) meets some difficulties, it seems that new considerations on the ether theories of gravitation in the history are needed. A theory of gravity based on some new concepts of ether and particles is…

General Physics · Physics 2024-05-09 Xiao-Song Wang

In this study, we propose an extension of general relativity inspired by the van der Waals equation of state, incorporating non-ideal thermodynamic effects into the gravitational sector. Our approach is based on the thermodynamic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-23 H. R. Fazlollahi

Discovery of a novel thermodynamic aspect of nonrelativistic gravity is reported. Here, initially, an unspecified scalar field potential is considered and treated not as an externally applied field but as a thermodynamic variable on an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-10 Peter Ván , Sumiyoshi Abe

In physical theories where the energy (action) is localized near a submanifold of a constant curvature space, there is a universal expression for the energy (or the action). We derive a multipole expansion for the energy that has a finite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-10 Orlando Alvarez , Matthew Haddad

In the SU(2)_{L} x U(1)_{Y} standard electroweak theory coupled with the Einstein gravity, new topological configurations naturally emerge, if the spatial section of the universe is globally a three-sphere(S^3) with a small radius. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 Hiroki Emoto , Yutaka Hosotani , Takahiro Kubota