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Quantum field theory (QFT) in Rindler spacetime is a gateway to understanding unitarity and information loss paradoxes in curved spacetime. Rindler coordinates map Minkowski spacetime onto regions with horizons, effectively dividing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-17 K. Sravan Kumar , João Marto

The asymptotic structure of the gravitational field of isolated systems has been analyzed in great detail in the case when the cosmological constant $\Lambda$ is zero. The resulting framework lies at the foundation of research in diverse…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-21 Abhay Ashtekar , Beatrice Bonga , Aruna Kesavan

Deterministic dynamical models are discussed which can be described in quantum mechanical terms. In particular, a local quantum field theory is presented which is a supersymmetric classical model. -- The Hilbert space approach of Koopman…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Hans-Thomas Elze

The flat, homogeneous, and isotropic universe with a massless scalar field is a paradigmatic model in Loop Quantum Cosmology. In spite of the prominent role that the model has played in the development of this branch of physics, there still…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-09-23 Mercedes Martin-Benito , Guillermo A. Mena Marugan , Javier Olmedo

Inflation is most often described using quantum field theory (QFT) on a fixed, curved spacetime background. Such a description is valid only if the spatial volume of the region considered is so large that its size and shape moduli behave…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-25 Alice Di Tucci , Job Feldbrugge , Jean-Luc Lehners , Neil Turok

We propose a new quantum approach for describing a system of $n$ interacting particles with variable mass connected by an unknown field with variable form ($n$-VMVF systems). Instead of assuming any particular nature for variation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-30 Israel A. González Medina

Quantum field theory (QFT) based on the principles of special relativity (SR) and it is in fact the \emph{kinematic theory of fields}. The root assumption is that there is "relativistic description" of \emph{any} isolated quantum system in…

General Physics · Physics 2018-08-02 Peter Leifer

A free massless scalar field is coupled to homogeneous and isotropic loop quantum cosmology. The coupled model is investigated in the vicinity of the classical singularity, where discreteness is essential and where the quantum model is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Martin Bojowald , Franz Hinterleitner

We propose a Quantum Field Theory (QFT) approach to neutrino oscillations in vacuum. The neutrino emission and detection are identified with the charged-current vertices of a single second-order Feynman diagram for the underlying process,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-10 Sergey Kovalenko , Fedor Simkovic

In this work, we discuss the scattering theory of local, relativistic quantum fields with indefinite metric. Since the results of Haag--Ruelle theory do not carry over to the case of indefinite metric, we propose an axiomatic framework for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Albeverio , H. Gottschalk

We show explicitly that free quantum field theory in de Sitter background restricted on the cosmological horizon produces another quantum field theory unitarily equivalent with the original one. Symmetry properties descending from the dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Pinamonti

On the path towards quantum gravity, we find friction between temporal relations in quantum mechanics (QM) (where they are fixed and field-independent), and in general relativity (where they are field-dependent and dynamic). This paper aims…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-28 Henrique Gomes

It is argued that the dynamics of an isolated system, due to the concrete procedure by which it is separated from the environment, has a non-Hamiltonian contribution. By a unified quantum field theoretical treatment of typical subdynamics,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Lanz , O. Melsheimer , B. Vacchini

For a quantum field living on a non - static spacetime no instantaneous Hamiltonian is definable, for this generically necessitates a choice of inequivalent representation of the canonical commutation relations at each instant of time. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 C. Anastopoulos

In has been recently shown [1] that in Dirac's hole theory the vacuum state is not the minimum energy state but that there exist quantum states with less energy than that of the vacuum state. In this paper we extend this discussion to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dan Solomon

Spacetime foam is analyzed within the simplistic model of a set of scalar fields on a flat background. We suggest the formula for the path integral which allows to account for the all possible topologies of spacetime. We show that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-09-11 A. A. Kirillov , E. P. Savelova

Relativistic quantum field theory (QFT) is commonly formulated in terms of operators, asymptotic states, and covariant amplitudes, a perspective that tends to obscure the real-time origin of field dynamics and correlations. Here we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-05 Yong Zhang

We present the case for a fundamentally discrete quantum spacetime and for Group Field Theories as a candidate consistent description of it, briefly reviewing the key properties of the GFT formalism. We then argue that the outstanding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniele Oriti

A framework is proposed that allows to write down field theories with a new energy scale while explicitly preserving Lorentz invariance and without spoiling the features of standard quantum field theory which allow quick calculations of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Tomasz Konopka

We construct an effective Quantum Field Theory for the wrapping effects in 1+1 dimensional models of factorised scattering. The recently developed graph-theoretical approach to TBA gives the perturbative desctiption of this QFT. For the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-06 Ivan Kostov