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Nonequilibrium quantum field theory is often used to derive an approximation for the evolution of number densities and asymmetries in astroparticle models when a more precise treatment of quantum thermal effects is required. This work…

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In this report we introduce the basic techniques (of the Closed Time Path - Coarse Grained Effective Action CTP-CGEA) and ideas (scaling, coarse-graining and backreaction) behind the treatment of quantum processes in dynamical background…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Esteban A. Calzetta , Bei Lok Hu , Francisco D. Mazzitelli

In Schroedinger picture we study the possible effects of trans-Planckian physics on the quantum evolution of massive non-minimally coupled scalar field in de Sitter space. For the nonlinear Corley-Jacobson type dispersion relations with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-30 Jung-Jeng Huang

In this article, we present a concise and self-contained introduction to nonequilibrium statistical mechanics with quantum field theory by considering an ensemble of interacting identical bosons or fermions as an example. Readers are…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-20 Takafumi Kita

The study of nonequilibrium phenomena in correlated lattice systems has developed into an active and exciting branch of condensed matter physics. This research field provides rich new insights that could not be obtained from the study of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-07-11 Hideo Aoki , Naoto Tsuji , Martin Eckstein , Marcus Kollar , Takashi Oka , Philipp Werner

We investigate the thermodynamical properties of quantum fields in curved spacetime. Our approach is to consider quantum fields in curved spacetime as a quantum system undergoing an out-of-equilibrium transformation. The non-equilibrium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-14 Nana Liu , John Goold , Ivette Fuentes , Vlatko Vedral , Kavan Modi , David Edward Bruschi

A stiff matter-dominated universe modeled by a free massless scalar field minimally coupled to gravity in a Friedmann-Lema\^{\i}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) geometry is quantized. Generalized complex-width gaussian superpositions of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Felipe T. Falciano , Nelson Pinto-Neto , E. Sergio Santini

Understanding real-time dynamics of interacting quantum fields in curved spacetime remains a major theoretical challenge. We employ tensor network methods to study such dynamics using interacting scalar and gauge theories in 1+1 spacetime…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-04-29 Evan Budd , Adrien Florio , David Frenklakh , Swagato Mukherjee

Environment interaction may induce stochastic semiclassical dynamics in open quantum systems. In the gravitational context, stress-energy fluctuations of quantum matter fields give rise to a stochastic behaviour in the spacetime geometry.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-15 Albert Roura , Enric Verdaguer

During inflation explicit perturbative computations of quantum field theories which contain massless, non-conformal fields exhibit secular effects that grow as powers of the logarithm of the inflationary scale factor. Starobinski\u{\i}'s…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. P. Woodard

Density contrasts in the universe are governed by scalar cosmological perturbations which, when expressed in terms of gauge-invariant variables, contain a classical component from scalar metric perturbations and a quantum component from…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-11 Jen-Tsung Hsiang , Bei-Lok Hu

Schwinger Keldysh field theory is a widely used paradigm to study non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body systems starting from a thermal state. We extend this formalism to describe non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum systems starting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-13 Ahana Chakraborty , Pranay Gorantla , Rajdeep Sensarma

Considering an arbitrary dimensional FLRW universe in the framework of a generalized S\'{a}ez--Ballester (SB) theory, we establish a noncommutative (NC) cosmological model. We concentrate on the predictions of NC model and compare them with…

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We study the problem of scalar particle production after inflation by a rapidly oscillating inflaton field. We use the framework of the chaotic inflation scenario with quartic and quadratic inflaton potentials. Particular attention is paid…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Y. Shtanov , J. Traschen , R. Brandenberger

The time evolution of an extended quantum system can be theoretically described in terms of the Schwinger-Keldysh functional integral formalism, whose action conveniently encodes the information about the dynamics. We show here that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-11 L. M. Sieberer , A. Chiocchetta , A. Gambassi , U. C. Täuber , S. Diehl

We rigorously analyze the non-equilibrium thermodynamic behavior of various formulations of quantum Brownian motion (QBM) using the framework of stochastic thermodynamics. While the widely used Caldeira-Leggett master equation exhibits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Simone Artini , Gabriele Lo Monaco , Alberto Imparato , Mauro Paternostro , Sandro Donadi

This thesis uses Path Integrals and Green's Functions to study Gravity, Quantum Field Theory and Statistical Mechanics, particularly with respect to: finite temperature quantum systems of different spin in gravitational fields; finite…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor Kulikov

We discuss the coupled Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations for a complex scalar field with and without a quartic self-interaction in a zero curvature Friedman-Lema\^{\i}tre Universe. The complex scalar field, as well as the metric, is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-15 D. Scialom

We describe an extension of the Keldysh method for fermions from constant temperature to steady state case with spatially varying temperature field.This is done with the use on the imaginary section of the Keldysh path of a thermal…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-03-24 Alyx Jourjine

This paper describes perturbative framework, on the basis of closed-time-path formalism, for studying quasiuniform relativistic quantum field systems near equilibrium and nonequilibrium quasistationary systems. At the first part, starting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Niégawa
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