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The probability distributions for the smeared energy densities of quantum fields, in the two and four-dimensional Minkowski vacuum are discussed. These distributions share the property that there is a lower bound at a finite negative value,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-09-29 Christopher J. Fewster , L. H. Ford , Thomas A. Roman

We are presenting a quantum traversable wormhole in an exactly soluble two-dimensional model. This is different from previous works since the exotic negative energy that supports the wormhole is generated from the quantization of classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Won Tae Kim , Edwin J. Son , Myung Seok Yoon

This study introduces and investigates Lorentzian traversable wormhole solutions rooted in Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG). The static and spherically symmetric solutions to be examined stem from the energy density sourcing self-dual regular…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-18 M. B. Cruz , R. M. P. Neves , Celio R. Muniz

In this work we analyze traversable wormhole spacetimes in the framework of a covariant generalization of Einstein's General Relativity known as energy-momentum squared gravity, or $f\left(R,\mathcal T\right)$ gravity, where $R$ is the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-16 João Luís Rosa , Nailya Ganiyeva , Francisco S. N. Lobo

Quantum energy inequalities (QEIs) are lower bounds on the averaged energy density of a quantum field. They have been proved for various field theories in general curved spacetimes but the explicit lower bound is not easily calculated in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-08-09 Christopher J. Fewster , Jacob Thompson

The quartic self-interacting conformal scalar field is used to construct a thin-shell wormhole satisfying all energy conditions. Accompanying the scalar field is the extremal Reissner-Nordstr\"om black hole with a positive cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-31 S. Danial Forghani , S. Habib Mazharimousavi , Mustafa Halilsoy

In quantum field theory there exist states for which the energy density is negative. It is important that these negative energy densities satisfy constraints, such as quantum inequalities, to minimize possible violations of causality, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Dan N. Vollick

We calculate the vacuum average value of the field square and the stress-energy tensor of a massive scalar field, with non-minimal coupling $\xi$ to the curvature in the short-throat flat-space wormhole background. The obtained results are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 V. B. Bezerra , E. R. Bezerra de Mello , N. R. Khusnutdinov , S. V. Sushkov

In this article we study spherical thin-shell wormholes in five-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity. We show that configurations supported by non-exotic matter, that is matter satisfying the weak energy condition, are possible at the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-20 Ernesto F. Eiroa , Emilio Rubín de Celis , Claudio Simeone

In the standard approach to studying wormhole geometry, the presence of dark energy is unavoidable to ensure traversability. The dark energy provides the negative gravity effect to keep the throat open. The question we analyse is whether…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-26 Ayan Banerjee , Sudan Hansraj , Anirudh Pradhan , Abdelghani Errehymy

We investigate spherically symmetric and static traversable wormholes supported by exotic matter, focusing on solutions sourced by physically motivated dark matter energy density profiles. Considering the Thomas-Fermi-type distribution, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-30 Remo Garattini , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Kirill Zatrimaylov

We study the stability and the scattering properties of a spacetime with a topological defect along a spherical bubble. This bubble connects two flat spacetimes which are asymptotically Minkowski, so that the resulting universe may be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-09 J. P. M. Pitelli , R. A. Mosna

We generalise results of Ford and Roman which place lower bounds -- known as quantum inequalities -- on the renormalised energy density of a quantum field averaged against a choice of sampling function. Ford and Roman derived their results…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. J. Fewster , S. P. Eveson

A wormhole with a quantum throat on the basis of an approximate model of the spacetime foam is presented. An effective spinor field is introduced for the description of the spacetime foam. The consequences of such model of the wormhole is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Dzhunushaliev

In this paper, we explore higher-dimensional asymptotically flat wormhole geometries in the framework of Gauss-Bonnet (GB) gravity and investigate the effects of the GB term, by considering a specific radial-dependent redshift function and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-06 Mohammad Reza Mehdizadeh , Mahdi Kord Zangeneh , Francisco S. N. Lobo

Recently, metrics that describe regular black holes, extreme black holes, or traversable wormholes have been widely discussed. These spacetimes, appearing in scenarios such as the brane world, are contingent on the values of the parameters,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-05 S. V. Bolokhov , R. A. Konoplya

In the conventional method of studying wormhole (WH) geometry, traversability requires the presence of exotic matter, which also provides negative gravity effects to keep the wormhole throat open. In dRGT massive gravity theory, we produce…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-07 Piyali Bhar

Morris \& Thorne \cite{morris1} proposed geometrical objects called traversable wormholes that act as bridges in connecting two spacetimes or two different points of the same spacetime. The geometrical properties of these wormholes depend…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-17 Nisha Godani , Gauranga C. Samanta

We investigate the quantum stability of a timelike topological wormhole with a simple geometry $M_2 \times S^2$, supported classically by anisotropic fluid. We compute the one-loop quantum backreaction generated by the vacuum fluctuations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-13 Haris Mehulic , Tomislav Prokopec

We reformulate the construction of wormhole solutions as perturbations around near-horizon geometries of near-extremal Reissner-Nordstr\"{o}m black holes in four dimensions and equal-angular-momenta Myers-Perry black holes in five…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-27 Takamasa Kanai , Kengo Maeda , Daisuke Yoshida