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For a quantum field in a curved background the choice of the vacuum state is crucial. We exhibit a vacuum state in which the expectation values of the energy and pressure allow an intuitive interpretation. We apply this general result to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Carmen Molina-Paris

A generic spacetime topology contains timelike boundaries. Making use of two such boundaries, we formulate a microscopic holographic dual that captures cosmological spacetime beyond the cosmic horizon patch, including the future wedge. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-14 Batoul Banihashemi , Gauri Batra , Albert Y. T. Law , Eva Silverstein , Gonzalo Torroba

Entanglement appears to be a fundamental building block of quantum gravity leading to new principles underlying the nature of quantum space-time. One such principle is the ER-EPR duality. While supported by our present intuition, a proof is…

General Physics · Physics 2017-06-13 Andrei T. Patrascu

Attributing thermodynamic properties to the Bunch-Davies state in static patch of de Sitter space and setting the corresponding equations of state, we demonstrate that, for pure gravity, the bulk entropy computed on-shell as a volume…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-22 Dmitrii Diakonov

It is generally accepted that the entropy of an asymptotically de Sitter universe is bounded by the area, in Planck units, of the de Sitter horizon. Based on an analysis of the entropy associated to the vacuum quantum fluctuations, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Saulo Carneiro

Gauge/gravity duality posits an equivalence between certain strongly coupled quantum field theories and theories of gravity with negative cosmological constant in a higher number of spacetime dimensions. The map between the degrees of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-10-09 Jennifer Lin

The scalar and electromagnetic fields of charges uniformly accelerated in de Sitter spacetime are constructed. They represent the generalization of the Born solutions describing fields of two particles with hyperbolic motion in flat…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Jiri Bicak , Pavel Krtous

Perturbative gravity about a de Sitter background motivates a global picture of quantum dynamics in `eternal de Sitter space,' the theory of states which are asymptotically de Sitter to both future and past. Eternal de Sitter physics is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Steven B. Giddings , Donald Marolf

In this work, we study the quantum entanglement and compute entanglement entropy in de Sitter space for a bipartite quantum field theory driven by axion originating from ${\bf Type~ IIB}$ string compactification on a Calabi Yau three fold…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-01-25 Sayantan Choudhury , Sudhakar Panda

We show that long-distance quantum correlations probe short-distance physics. Two disjoint regions of the latticized, massless scalar field vacuum are numerically demonstrated to become separable at distances beyond the negativity sphere,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-01 Natalie Klco , Martin J. Savage

We build a covariant holographic entanglement entropy prescription for a class of closed FRW cosmologies, generalizing a recent holographic proposal in de Sitter space. Starting from the Bousso covariant entropy bound, we describe the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-03-29 François Rondeau

We investigate the behavior of the entanglement entropy of a confining gauge theory near cosmological singularities using gauge/gravity duality. As expected, the coefficients of the UV divergent terms are given by simple geometric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-26 Netta Engelhardt , Gary T. Horowitz

This paper is concerned with the ergodic subspaces of the state spaces of isolated quantum systems. We prove a new ergodic theorem for closed quantum systems which shows that the equilibrium state of the system takes the form of a grand…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dorje C. Brody , Daniel W. Hook , Lane P. Hughston

We develop further the investigations in arXiv:2210.12963 [hep-th] on de Sitter space, extremal surfaces and time entanglement. We discuss the no-boundary de Sitter extremal surface areas as certain analytic continuations from $AdS$ while…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-03 K. Narayan

Decaying vacuum models are a class of models that incorporate the vacuum energy density as a time-evolving entity that has the potential to explain the entire evolutionary history of the universe in a single framework. A general solution to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-30 Sarath N , Titus K. Mathew

We study the area and volume laws for entanglement of free quantum scalar fields. In addition to the entropy, we use the notion of the capacity of entanglement, which measures entropy fluctuations. We consider flat spacetimes as well as the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-07 K. Andrzejewski

We highlight some universal features concerning the role of spacetime curvature in the entanglement induced between quantum probes coupled to a quantum field in a suitable vacuum state. The probes are initially causally disconnected and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-20 Hari K , Subhajit Barman , Dawood Kothawala

We study the quantum correlations of free scalar field with vacuum ambiguity of de Sitter space. We show the occurrence of degradation of quantum entanglement and quantum discord between field modes for inertial observer in curved space due…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-21 Jun Feng , Cheng-Yi Sun , Wen-Li Yang , Yao-Zhong Zhang , Heng Fan

We study perturbative unitarity bounds on the field-space curvature in de Sitter spacetime, using the momentum-space entanglement approach recently proposed by Duaso Pueyo, Goodhew, McCulloch, and Pajer. As an illustration, we perform a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-17 Qianhang Cai , Tomoya Inada , Masataka Ishikawa , Kanji Nishii , Toshifumi Noumi

Inspired by ER=EPR conjecture we present a mathematical tool providing a link between quantum entanglement and the geometry of spacetime. We start with the idea of operators in extended Hilbert space which, by definition, has no positive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-30 Grzegorz Plewa