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For an analogon of the free Wess-Zumino model on Ricci flat spacetimes, the relation between a conserved `supercurrent' and the point-separated improved energy momentum tensor is investigated and a similar relation as on Minkowski space is…

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A new method is introduced for doing calculations of quantum field theories in planar geometries which the metric depends on just one coordinate. In contrast to previous method, this method can be used in any planar geometry, not only…

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In this paper we describe two different parametrizations of field equations in the $f(R)$ theories of gravity and two resulting parametrizations of the Friedmann Equations. In particular we show how these two parametrizations lead to two…

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There were many attempts to geometrize electromagnetic field and find out new interpretation for quantum mechanics formalism. The distinctive feature of this work is that it combines geometrization of electromagnetic field and…

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A method for computing the stress-energy tensor for the quantized, massless, spin 1/2 field in a general static spherically symmetric spacetime is presented. The field can be in a zero temperature state or a non-zero temperature thermal…

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Important gaps remain in our understanding of the thermodynamics and statistical physics of self-gravitating systems. Using mean field theory, here we investigate the equilibrium properties of several spherically symmetric model systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Peter J. Klinko , Bruce N. Miller

We argue in a model-independent way that the Hilbert space of quantum gravity is locally finite-dimensional. In other words, the density operator describing the state corresponding to a small region of space, when such a notion makes sense,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-22 Ning Bao , Sean M. Carroll , Ashmeet Singh

For quantum fields on a curved spacetime with an Euclidean section, we derive a general expression for the stress energy tensor two-point function in terms of the effective action. The renormalized two-point function is given in terms of…

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We analyze the electronic structure of atoms in the first, second and third periods using the electronic kinetic energy density and stress tensor density, which are local quantities motivated by quantum field theoretic consideration,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-03-31 Hiroo Nozaki , Kazuhide Ichikawa , Akitomo Tachibana

Well defined quantum field theory (QFT) for the electroweak force including quantum electrodynamics (QED) and the weak force is obtained by considering natural unitary representations of a group $K\subset U(2,2)$, where $K$ is locally…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-06-16 John Mashford

We have gone through a detailed calculation of the two-point correlation function of vector currents at finite density and magnetic field by employing the real time formalism of finite temperature field theory and Schwinger's proper time…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-10 Sarthak Satapathy , Snigdha Ghosh , Sabyasachi Ghosh

We obtain a form of the local thermodynamic equilibrium density operator which is invariant under pseudo-gauge transformations of the stress-energy and the spin tensors. This operator is an excellent candidate to describe the dynamics of a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-07-15 F. Becattini , C. Hoyos

Motivated by a desire to understand quantum fluctuation energy densities and stress within a spatially varying dielectric medium, we examine the vacuum expectation value for the stress tensor of a scalar field with arbitrary conformal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-17 Kimball A. Milton , Stephen A. Fulling , Prachi Parashar , Pushpa Kalauni , Taylor Murphy

We compute the stress--energy operator for a scalar linear quantum field in curved space-time, modulo c-numbers. For the associated Hamiltonian operators, even those generating evolution along timelike vector fields, we find that in general…

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Stress-tensor deformations suggest a geometric origin of emergent gravity but are typically non-local for $d>2$. We couple a seed QFT to Einstein gravity with deformation parameter $\lambda$ and evaluate the gravitational path integral at…

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We present a universal thermodynamic framework for quantum systems that may be strongly coupled to thermal environments. Unlike previous approaches, our method enables a clear definition of thermostatic properties while preserving the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Ignacio González , Sagnik Chakraborty , Ángel Rivas

We introduce a quantization scheme that can be applied to surface waves propagating along a plane interface. An important result is the derivation of the energy of the surface wave for dispersive non-lossy media without invoking any…

Quantum complexity quantifies the difficulty of preparing a state or implementing a unitary transformation with limited resources. Applications range from quantum computation to condensed matter physics and quantum gravity. We seek to…

It is shown that the sum of stress-energy tensors of the electromagnetic and gravitational fields, the acceleration field and the pressure field inside a stationary uniform spherical body within the framework of relativistic uniform model…

General Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Sergey G. Fedosin

The manifold of pure quantum states is a complex projective space endowed with the unitary-invariant geometry of Fubini and Study. According to the principles of geometric quantum mechanics, the detailed physical characteristics of a given…

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