English
Related papers

Related papers: Diffusion in the stochastic Klein-Gordon equation

200 papers

3-dimensional gravity coupled to Maxwell (or Klein-Gordon) fields is exactly soluble under the assumption of axi-symmetry. The solution is used to probe several quantum gravity issues. In particular, it is shown that the quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Abhay Ashtekar

It is well known that the Klein-Gordon equation in curved spacetime is conformally noninvariant, both with and without a mass term. We show that such a noninvariance provides nontrivial physical insights at different levels, first within…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-16 F. Hammad , P. Sadeghi , N. Fleury , A. Leblanc

This article investigates the averaging of a scalar degree of freedom that couples universally to matter. It quantifies the approximation of smoothing the matter distribution before solving the Klein--Gordon equation. In the case of Yukawa…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-08 Jean-Philippe Uzan , Hugo Lévy

We numerically solve the Klein-Gordon equation at second order in cosmological perturbation theory in closed form for a single scalar field, describing the method employed in detail. We use the slow-roll version of the second order source…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-18 Ian Huston , Karim A. Malik

It has recently been shown that the classical electric and magnetic fields which satisfy the source-free Maxwell equations can be linearly mapped into the real and imaginary parts of a transverse-vector wave function which in consequence…

General Physics · Physics 2010-12-24 Steven Kenneth Kauffmann

The one-dimensional Klein-Gordon equation is investigated with the most general Lorentz structure for the external potentials. The analysis and calculation of the reflection and transmission coefficients for the scattering of particles in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Tatiana R. Cardoso , Antonio S. de Castro

The theory of scale relativity provides a new insight into the origin of fundamental laws in physics. Its application to microphysics allows us to recover quantum mechanics as mechanics on a non-differentiable (fractal) spacetime. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-13 Marie-Noëlle Célérier , Laurent Nottale

We derive the governing equations for multiple scalar fields minimally coupled to gravity in a flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) background spacetime on large scales. We include scalar perturbations up to second order and write the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Karim A. Malik

Whereas semiclassical gravity is based on the semiclassical Einstein equation with sources given by the expectation value of the stress-energy tensor of quantum fields, stochastic semiclassical gravity is based on the Einstein-Langevin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-19 B. L. Hu , E. Verdaguer

We use the Klein-Gordon equation in a curved spacetime to construct the relativistic analog of the Schr\"odinger-Newton problem, where a scalar particle lives in a gravitational potential well generated by its own probability distribution.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-12 D. A. Taylor , S. S. Chabysheva , J. R. Hiller

The covariant Klein-Gordon equation requires twice the boundary conditions of the Schrodinger equation and does not have an accepted single-particle interpretation. Instead of interpreting its solution as a probability wave determined by an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-18 K. B. Wharton

We develop a hybrid formalism suitable for modeling scalar field dark matter, in which the phase-space distribution associated to the real scalar field is modeled by statistical equal-time two-point functions and gravity is treated by two…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-04 Tomislav Prokopec , Pavel Friedrich

We analyse the Klein-Gordon oscillator in a cosmic string space-time and study the effects stemming from the rotating frame and non-commutativity in momentum space. We show that the latter mimics a constant magnetic field, imparting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-08 R. R. Cuzinatto , M. de Montigny , P. J. Pompeia

The non-local Machian model is regarded as an alternative theory of gravitation which states that all particles in the Universe as a 'gravitationally entangled' statistical ensemble. It is shown that the Klein-Gordon equation can be derived…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-21 Bin Liu , Yun-Chuan Dai , Xian-Ru Hu , Jian-Bo Deng

This work deals with the theory of a quantized spin-2 field in the framework of causal perturbation theory. It is divided into two parts. In the first part we analyze the gauge structure of a massless self-interacting quantum tensor field.…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Wellmann

The scalar Klein-Gordon equation describes wave motion in a waveguide with a cut-off. For example, the displacement of an elastic cord anchored to a solid base by elastic elements can be described by the scalar Klein-Gordon equation. We…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-02-03 A. I. Korolkov , A. V. Shanin

We give a summary of the status of current research in stochastic semiclassical gravity and suggest directions for further investigations. This theory generalizes the semiclassical Einstein equation to an Einstein-Langevin equation with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 B. L. Hu

Whereas semiclassical gravity is based on the semiclassical Einstein equation with sources given by the expectation value of the stress-energy tensor of quantum fields, stochastic semiclassical gravity is based on the Einstein- Langevin…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. L. Hu , E. Verdaguer

It is known that classical electromagnetic radiation at a frequency in resonance with energy splittings of atoms in a dielectric medium can be described using the classical sine-Gordon equation. In this paper we quantize the electromagnetic…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Andre LeClair

Scalar perturbation represented by the Klein-Gordon field equation of the system of black holes in 2+1 dimensional Static charged dilaton gravity proposed by Chan and Mann is investigated analytically. The radial equation is analyzed near…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-02-01 Biplab Raychaudhuri , Kshounish Guha