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This work explores the intersection of quantum mechanics and curved spacetime by employing the Wigner formalism to investigate quantum systems in the vicinity of black holes. Specifically, we study the quantum dynamics of a probe particle…

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In this paper the connection between quantum field theories on flat noncommutative space(-times) in Euclidean and Lorentzian signature is studied for the case that time is still commutative. By making use of the algebraic framework of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-30 Harald Grosse , Gandalf Lechner , Thomas Ludwig , Rainer Verch

We construct a consistent quantum field theory of a dimensionally reduced self-interacting scalar field. The Kaluza-Klein dimensional reduction on the well-known $\Phi^{4}$ scalar theory, on a certain $(4+n)$ spacetime with an arbitrary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-11-02 M. A. López-Osorio , E. Martínez-Pascual , G. Nápoles-Cañedo , J. J. Toscano

The aim of this review is to outline a full route from the fundamental principles of algebraic quantum field theory on curved spacetime in its present-day form to explicit phenomenological applications which allow for comparison with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-09-02 Klaus Fredenhagen , Thomas-Paul Hack

An overview about recent progress in the calculation of the heat kernel and the one-loop effective action in quantum gravity and gauge theories is given. We analyse the general structure of the standard Schwinger-De Witt asymptotic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 I. G. Avramidi

For classical field theories with probabilistic initial conditions the classical field observables are an idealization. Their arbitrarily precise values poorly reflect the characteristic uncertainty in the presence of substantial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Christof Wetterich

We study dynamics of a scalar field in the near-horizon region described by a static Klein-Gordon operator which is the Hamiltonian of the system. The explicite construction of a time operator near-horizon is given and its self-adjointness…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Mladen Martinis , Vesna Mikuta-Martinis

Exact solutions of Einstein equations with null Riemman-Christoffel curvature tensor everywhere, except on a hypersurface, are studied using quantum particles obeying the Klein-Gordon equation. We consider the particular cases when the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Paulo M. Pitelli , Patricio S. Letelier

A four-vector field in flat space-time, satisfying a gauge-invariant set of second-order differential equations, is considered as a unified field. The model variational principle corresponds to the general covariance idea and gives rise to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexander A. Chernitskii

Wick's theorem is a cornerstone of perturbative quantum field theory. In this paper we announce and discuss the digitalization of Wick's theorem and its proof into the interactive theorem prover Lean 4 as part of the project PhysLean. We do…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-14 Joseph Tooby-Smith

A new approach is proposed for an electromagnetic field geometrisation. We show that interacting Maxwell and Dirac fields can be considered as a single connected space-time 4-manifold. The Dirac spinors appear wihtin such approach as basic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 O. A. Olkhov

In this paper, we provide new exact solutions of nonlinear Klein-Gordon ($\phi^4$) equation in $1+1$-dimension. For simplicity, we focus on the static equation and ignore the time-dependence. The symmetric $\phi^4$ equation has played an…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2023-06-13 Avinash Khare , Saikat Banerjee , Avadh Saxena

We study the noncommutative \phi^4_4-quantum field theory at the self-duality point. This model is renormalisable to all orders as shown in earlier work of us and does not have a Landau ghost problem. Using the Ward identity of Disertori,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-09 Harald Grosse , Raimar Wulkenhaar

We discuss the perturbative approach a` la Dyson to a quantum field theory with nonlocal self-interaction :phi*...*phi:, according to Doplicher, Fredenhagen and Roberts (DFR). In particular, we show that the Wick reduction of non locally…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-22 Gherardo Piacitelli

A generalized Noether's theorem and the operational determination of a physical geometry in quantum physics are used to motivate a quantum geometry consisting of relations between quantum states that are defined by a universal group. Making…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jeeva Anandan

A new noncommutative spacetime of structure $ {\cal M}^4 \times Z_2 \times Z_2$ is proposed. The generalized Hilbert-Einstein action contains gravity, all known interactions and Higgs field. This theory can also provide a unified geometric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-10-07 Viet Ai Nguyen

The ideas behind the nonlocal classical statistical field theory model for the quantized Klein-Gordon field introduced in Morgan(2001, quant-ph/0106141) are extended to accommodate quantum electrodynamics. The anticommutation rules for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. W. Morgan

Computing response functions by following the time evolution of superoperators in Liouville space (whose vectors are ordinary Hilbert space operators) offers an attractive alternative to the diagrammatic perturbative expansion of many-body…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Shaul Mukamel

A rigorous \textit{ab initio} derivation of the (square of) Dirac's equation for a single particle with spin is presented. The general Hamilton-Jacobi equation for the particle expressed in terms of a background Weyl's conformal geometry is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-19 Enrico Santamato

The formalism based on the equal-time Wigner function of the two-point correlation function for a quantized Klein--Gordon field is presented. The notion of the gauge-invariant Wigner transform is introduced and equations for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 C. Best , P. Gornicki , W. Greiner