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A quantum field has been coupled to a space-time with accelerating expansion. Dynamical modes are destabilised successively at shorter material wavelengths as they metamorphose from oscillators to repellers. Due to degeneracy of energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-29 Philip Broadbridge , Sarah Becirevic , David Hoxley

The diffusion equation is the primary tool to study the movement dynamics of a free Brownian particle, but when spatial heterogeneities in the form of permeable interfaces are present, no fundamental equation has been derived. Here we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-14 Toby Kay , Luca Giuggioli

As a toy model for dynamics in nonequilibrium quantum field theory we consider the abelian Higgs model in 1+1 dimensions with fermions. In the approximate dynamical equations, inhomogeneous classical (mean) Bose fields are coupled to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Gert Aarts , Jan Smit

Analytical approximations for $< \phi^2 >$ of a quantized scalar field in ultrastatic asymptotically flat spacetimes are obtained. The field is assumed to be both massive and massless, with an arbitrary coupling $\xi$ to the scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Arkady A. Popov

We study the non-linear dynamics of quantum fields in matter and radiation dominated universes, using the non-equilibrium field theory approach combined with the non-perturbative Hartree and the large N approximations. We examine the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 D. Boyanovsky , D. Cormier , H. J. de Vega , R. Holman , A. Singh , M. Srednicki

Dynamical symmetry breaking in an expanding nuclear system is investigated in semi-classical and quantum framework by employing a collective transport model which is constructed to mimic the collective behavior of expanding systems. It is…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Wen , P. Chau Huu-Tai , D. Lacroix , Ph. Chomaz , S. Ayik

Time evolution of macroscopic systems is re-examined primarily through further analysis and extension of the equation of motion for the density matrix $\rho(t)$. Because $\rho$ contains both classical and quantum-mechanical probabilities it…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. T. Grandy

A mathematical model of the Universe evolution, based on asymmetric doublet of classical and phantom dcalar Higgs fields with a kinetic connection between the components, has been constructed and studied. A detailed qualitative analysis was…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-26 Yu. G. Ignat'ev , I. A. Kokh

We study one-dimensional quantum walks in a homogeneous electric field. The field is given by a phase which depends linearly on position and is applied after each step. The long time propagation properties of this system, such as revivals,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-23 C. Cedzich , T. Rybár , A. H. Werner , A. Alberti , M. Genske , R. F. Werner

We study classical Hamiltonian systems in which the intrinsic proper time evolution parameter is related through a probability distribution to the physical time, which is assumed to be discrete. In this way, a physical clock with discrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. -T. Elze

We study how bubbles grow after the initial nucleation event in generic first-order cosmological phase transitions characterised by the values of latent heat, interface tension and correlation length, and driven by a scalar order parameter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 J. Ignatius , K. Kajantie , H. Kurki-Suonio , M. Laine

In this paper, we study a cosmological model inspired in the axionic matter with two canonical scalar fields $\phi_1$ and $\phi_2$ interacting through a term added to its potential. Introducing novel dynamical variables, and a dimensionless…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-30 Saikat Chakraborty , Esteban González , Genly Leon , Bin Wang

Of primary interest in this paper is the numerical approximation of a time dependent fractional, in space, diffusion equation where the domain is assumed to be nonhomogeneous, having different axial diffusion coefficients. This work is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-12 T. Catoe , V. J. Ervin

An effective action technique for the time evolution of a closed system consisting of one or more mean fields interacting with their quantum fluctuations is presented. By marrying large $N$ expansion methods to the Schwinger-Keldysh closed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Fred Cooper , Salman Habib , Yuval Kluger , Emil Mottola , Juan Pablo Paz , Paul R. Anderson

In the context of a homogeneous universe, we note that the appearance of aggressively expanding advanced life is geometrically similar to the process of nucleation and bubble growth in a first-order cosmological phase transition. We exploit…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-21 S. Jay Olson

The dynamics of a one dimensional growth model involving attachment and detachment of particles is studied in the presence of a localized growth inhomogeneity along with anchored boundary conditions. At large times, the latter enforce an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. D. Grynberg

We derive the effective equations for the out of equilibrium time evolution of the order parameter and the fluctuations of a scalar field theory in spatially flat FRW cosmologies.The calculation is performed both to one-loop and in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 D. Boyanovsky , H. J. de Vega , R. Holman

Quantum collision models allow for the dynamics of open quantum systems to be described by breaking the environment into small segments, typically consisting of non-interacting harmonic oscillators or two-level systems. This work introduces…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Anton Corr , Stefano Cusumano , Gabriele De Chiara

A natural example of evolution can be described by a time-dependent two degrees-of-freedom Hamiltonian. We choose the case where initially the Hamiltonian derives from a general cubic potential, the linearised system has frequencies 1 and…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2021-11-03 Ferdinand Verhulst

A mass ejection model in a time-dependent random environment with both temporal and spatial correlations is introduced. When the environment has a finite correlation length, individual particle trajectories are found to diffuse at large…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2012-03-28 Giorgio Krstulovic , Rehab Bitane , Jeremie Bec