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We consider quantum field theory in four-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, with the position coordinates represented by twistors instead of the usual world-vectors. Upon imposing canonical commutation relations between twistors and dual…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Tomasz R. Taylor

A relativistic classical field theory with zero-point radiation involves a vacuum corresponding to a scale-invariant spectrum of random classical radiation in spacetime with the overall constant chosen to give an energy (1/2)\hbar\omega per…

Classical Physics · Physics 2010-11-08 Timothy H. Boyer

The last decades have witnessed an unprecedented advancement in our knowledge of the large scale universe. In particular, increasingly accurate cosmological observations have allowed us to discover a form of "dark energy", which presently…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-11 Eduardo Amancio Barbosa Oliveira

It is commonly assumed that quantum field theory arises by applying ordinary quantum mechanics to the low energy effective degrees of freedom of a more fundamental theory defined at ultra-high-energy/short-wavelength scales. We shall argue…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Stefan Hollands , Robert M. Wald

Several recent studies have considered the implications for astrophysics and cosmology of some possible nonclassical properties of spacetime at the Planck scale. The new effects, such as a Planck-scale-modified energy-momentum (dispersion)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 Antonino Marciano , Giovanni Amelino-Camelia , Nicola Rossano Bruno , Giulia Gubitosi , Gianluca Mandanici , Alessandro Melchiorri

We investigate quantum vacuum effects for a massive scalar field, induced by two planar boundaries in background of a linearly expanding spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetime for an arbitrary number of spatial dimensions. For…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-18 A. A. Saharian , T. A. Petrosyan , S. V. Abajyan , B. B. Nersisyan

We explore, in the framework of linearized quantum gravity, the induced gravitational interaction between two gravitationally polarizable objects in their ground states in the presence of an external quantized gravitational radiation field.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-12 Yongshun Hu , Jiawei Hu , Hongwei Yu

This article is a sequel to our previous paper (arXiv:2511.12311), where we considered the conceptual problem on the empirical laws for the Klein\textendash Gordon quantum field theory in curved spacetime (QFTCS), and we will consider the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-20 Hideyasu Yamashita

The Casimir effect, which predicts the emergence of an attractive force between two parallel, highly reflecting plates in vacuum, plays a vital role in various fields of physics, from quantum field theory and cosmology to nanophotonics and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-29 Daniel Hodgson , Christopher Burgess , M. Basil Altaie , Almut Beige , Robert Purdy

We investigate an influence of virtual particles on the classical motion of a system in Minkowski and Euclidean spaces. Our results indicate that fluctuations of fields different from the main field decelerate significantly its motion at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-16 S. G. Rubin , H. Kröger , G. Melkonian

The description of thermal or non-equilibrium systems necessitates a quantum field theory which differs from the usual approach in two aspects: 1.The Hilbert space is doubled; 2.Stable quasi-particles do not exist in interacting systems. A…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 P. A. Henning

The relativistic effect of energy increase in a particle freely moving in vacuum is discussed on the basis of quantum field theory and probability theory using some ideas of super-symmetrical theories. The particle is assumed to consist of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 G. N. Gestrina

The role of acceleration in particle physics can provide an alternative method for probing the properties of quantum gravity. To analyze acceleration-induced processes one utilizes the formalism of quantum field theory in curved spacetime.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Morgan H. Lynch

Using the influence functional formalism, the problem of an accelerating detector in the presence of a scalar field in its ground state is considered in Minkowski space. As is known since the work of Unruh, to a quantum mechanical detector…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-04 J. -G. Demers

The following two papers form a natural development of a previous series of three articles on the foundations of quantum mechanics; they are intended to take the theory there developed to its utmost logical and epistemological consequences.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 L. S. F. Olavo

The state-of-the-art physics consists of two irreconcilable branches, i.e., the quantum theory and the general relativity, which work well in their own territories, independently. However, what are quantum and spacetime after all? The key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-13 Si-xue Qin

We investigate weak cosmic censorship conjecture in charged torus-like black hole by the complex scalar field scattering. Using the relation between the conserved quantities of a black hole and the scalar field, we can calculate the change…

General Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Wei Hong , Berong Mu , Jun Tao

It is widely assumed that the observed universe is accelerating due to the existence of a new fluid component called dark energy. In this article, the thermodynamics consequences of a nonzero chemical potential on the dark energy component…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-24 S. H. Pereira

The quantum theory of fields is largely based on studying perturbations around non-interacting, or free, field theories, which correspond to a collection of quantum-mechanical harmonic oscillators. The quantum theory of an ordinary fluid is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-04-24 Ben Gripaios , Dave Sutherland

In recent years several ideas for experimental searches of effects induced by quantum properties of space-time have been discussed. Some of these ideas concern the role in quantum spacetime of the ordinary Lorentz symmetry of classical flat…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giovanni Amelino-Camelia