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In this work, we study the quantization of Carrollian conformal scalar theories, including two-dimensional(2D) magnetic scalar and three-dimensional(3D) electric and magnetic scalars. We discuss two different quantization schemes, depending…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-12-18 Bin Chen , Haowei Sun , Yu-fan Zheng

A new form of quasiclassical space-time dynamics for constrained systems reveals how quantum effects can be derived systematically from canonical quantization of gravitational systems. These quasiclassical methods lead to additional fields,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-04 Kallan Berglund , Martin Bojowald , Manuel Diaz , Gianni Sims

Vacuum characteristics quantifying dynamical tendency toward self-duality in gauge theories could be used to judge the relevance of classical solutions or the viability of classically motivated vacuum models. Here we decompose the field…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2015-05-30 Andrei Alexandru , Ivan Horvath

We consider the stochastic quantization method for scalar fields defined in a curved manifold and also in a flat space-time with event horizon. The two-point function associated to a massive self-interacting scalar field is evaluated, up to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Menezes , N. F. Svaiter

We consider a quantum scalar field on an arbitrary gravitational background. We obtain the effective {\it in-in} equations for the gravitational fields using a covariant and non-local approximation for the effective action proposed by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 D. A. R. Dalvit , F. D. Mazzitelli

We develop a quantitative theory of stochastic homogenization for linear, uniformly parabolic equations with coefficients depending on space and time. Inspired by recent works in the elliptic setting, our analysis is focused on certain…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-13 Scott Armstrong , Alexandre Bordas , Jean-Christophe Mourrat

We calculate Euclidean correlation functions through next-to-leading order in the low energy effective theory of gravity. We focus on correlation functions of curvature and volume operators, calculating these functions through one-loop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-15 Jack Laiho , Kenny Ratliff

Bilocal correlator in gluodynamics is evaluated at finite temperature in the framework of instanton gas model. It is demonstrated that vacuum correlation length decreases with a growing temperature. Obtained results are compared with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 N. O. Agasian , S. M. Fedorov

Accurate derivatives are important for efficiently locally traversing and converging in quantum optimization landscapes. By deriving analytically exact control derivatives (gradient and Hessian) for unitary control tasks, we show here that…

We develop a linear-programming method to extract dynamical information from static ground-state correlators in quantum field theory. We recast the K\"all\'en-Lehmann inversion as a convex optimization problem, in a spirit similar to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Sophie Mutzel , Antoine Tilloy

It is shown that the idea of ``minimal'' coupling to gauge fields can be conveniently implemented in the proper time formalism by identifying the equivalent of a ``covariant derivative''. This captures some of the geometric notion of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 B. Sathiapalan

In Papers I-III [arXiv:2210.10435, arXiv:2210.11085, arXiv:2304.13304], we use the flat-sky and distant-observer approximations to develop a formalism with which the correlation statistics of cosmological tensor fields are calculated by the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-23 Takahiko Matsubara

Quantum field theory provides the framework for the most fundamental physical theories to be confirmed experimentally and has enabled predictions of unprecedented precision. However, calculations of physical observables often require great…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-04 Stephen P. Jordan , Keith S. M. Lee , John Preskill

We consider an infrared truncated massless minimally coupled scalar field with a quartic self-interaction in the locally de Sitter background of an inflating universe. We compute the two-point correlation function of the scalar at one and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 V. K. Onemli

We study the quantum correlations of free scalar field with vacuum ambiguity of de Sitter space. We show the occurrence of degradation of quantum entanglement and quantum discord between field modes for inertial observer in curved space due…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-21 Jun Feng , Cheng-Yi Sun , Wen-Li Yang , Yao-Zhong Zhang , Heng Fan

In recent work we developed a description of cosmic large scale structure formation in terms of non-equilibrium ensembles of classical particles, with time evolution obtained in the framework of a statistical field theory. In these works,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-27 Felix Fabis , Elena Kozlikin , Robert Lilow , Matthias Bartelmann

We find the general behaviour of homogeneous and isotropic cosmological models in some fourth-order theories of gravity. Explicit, exact, general solutions are given for both empty universes and those filled with a perfect fluid. For the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-27 Timothy Clifton

Effective field theories (EFTs) organize the description of complex systems into an infinite sequence of decreasing importance. Predictions are made with a finite number of terms, which induces a truncation error that is often left…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-16 J. A. Melendez , R. J. Furnstahl , D. R. Phillips , M. T. Pratola , S. Wesolowski

Classically the kinetic theory for a perfect gas has zero spatial number density correlation between separate points because the particles are independent. But the joint spatial and temporal correlation is non-zero (and easily calculable)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-28 John Hannay

Cosmological models can be studied effectively using dynamical systems techniques. Starting from Brown's formulation of the variational principle for relativistic fluids, we introduce new types of couplings involving a perfect fluid, a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-13 Christian G. Boehmer , Antonio d'Alfonso del Sordo
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