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In this work, we use the framework of effective field theory to couple Einstein's gravity to quantum electrodynamics (QED) and determine the gravitational corrections to the two-loop beta function of the electric charge in arbitrary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-15 L. Ibiapina Bevilaqua , M. Dias , A. C. Lehum , C. R. Senise , A. J. da Silva , Huan Souza

Curvature expansion for the heat kernel trace and the one-loop effective action is built for the wave operator of the theory in the quasi-thermal setup of a nonvacuum quantum state. This setup implies a non-static and non-stationary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-13 Andrei O. Barvinsky , Farahmand Hasanov , Nikita Kolganov

We study the effective interactions of external electromagnetic fields induced by fluctuations of virtual particles in the vacuum of quantum electrodynamics. Our main focus is on these interactions at two-loop order. We discuss in detail…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-02 Holger Gies , Felix Karbstein

The imaginary-time path integral representation of the canonical partition function of a quantum system and non-equilibrium work fluctuation relations are combined to yield methods for computing free energy differences in quantum systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ramses van Zon , Lisandro Hernandez de la Pena , Gilles H. Peslherbe , Jeremy Schofield

In this work, we develop a generalization of Kaluza-Klein theory by considering a purely affine framework, without assuming a prior metric structure. We formulate the dimensional reduction using the geometry of principal fiber bundles and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-08 Oscar Castillo-Felisola , Aureliano Skirzewski , Jefferson Vaca-Santana

We study the vacuum fluctuations of a quantum scalar field in the presence of a thin and inhomogeneous flat mirror, modeled with a delta potential. Using Heat-Kernel techniques, we evaluate the Euclidean effective action perturbatively in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-03-23 S. A. Franchino-Viñas , F. D. Mazzitelli

The search for a Unified description of all interactions has created many developments of mathematics and physics. The role of geometric effects in the Quantum Theory of particles and fields and spacetime has been an active topic of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Ajay Patwardhan

By making use of the background field method, the one-loop quantization for Euclidean Einstein-Weyl quadratic gravity model on the de Sitter universe is investigated. Using generalized zeta function regularization, the on-shell and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-01-29 E. Elizalde , G. Cognola , S. Zerbini

A review of the path integral approach to quantum cosmology and its relation to canonical quantisation. The initial derivation of the Hartle-Hawking and Vilenkin wavefunctions from the Euclidean Einstein-Hilbert action, and later, from the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-14 Raymond Isichei

In a recent letter, we developed a novel Euclidean time approach to compute R\'{e}nyi entanglement entropy on lattices and fuzzy spaces based on Green's function. The present work is devoted in part to the explicit proof of the Green's…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-19 A. Allouche , D. Dou

The one--loop effective action for the case of a massive scalar loop in the background of both a scalar potential and an abelian or non--abelian gauge field is written in a one--dimensional path integral representation. From this the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-04-15 D. Fliegner , P. Haberl , M. G. Schmidt , C. Schubert

The one-loop effective action for a massive self-interacting scalar field is investigated in $4$-dimensional ultrastatic space-time $ R \times H^3/\Gamma$, $H^3/\Gamma$ being a non-compact hyperbolic manifold with finite volume. Making use…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 A. A. Bytsenko , Guido Cognola , Sergio Zerbini

We consider in detail the quantum-mechanical problem associated with the motion of a one-dimensional particle under the action of the double-well potential. Our main tool will be the euclidean (imaginary time) version of the path-integral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 J. Casahorran

A new nonlinear integral equation (NLIE) describing the thermodynamics of the Heisenberg spin chain is derived based on the t-W relation of the quantum transfer matrices. The free energy of the system in a magnetic field is thus obtained by…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-11-12 Pengcheng Lu , Yi Qiao , Junpeng Cao , Wen-Li Yang , Kangjie Shi , Yupeng Wang

We derive a geometric representation of couplings between spin degrees of freedom and gauge fields within the worldline approach to quantum field theory. We combine the string-inspired methods of the worldline formalism with elements of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Holger Gies , Jens Hammerling

In the context of the generalized (off-shell) free energy, we explore the phase emergence and corresponding phase transitions of charged dilaton $\text{AdS}$ black holes in the gauged Kaluza-Klein (KK) theory where the KK vector field is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-14 Tran N. Hung , Cao H. Nam

In this paper, a four dimensional rotating Kaluza Klien (K-K) black hole was deformed using rainbow functions derived from loop quantum gravity and non-commutative geometry. We studied the thermodynamic properties and critical phenomena of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-26 Salwa Alsaleh

An alternative quantization of the gravitational Hamiltonian constraint of the $k=-1$ Friedmann-Robertson-Walker model is proposed by treating the Euclidean term and the Lorentzian term independently, mimicking the treatment of full loop…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-23 Jinsong Yang , Cong Zhang , Xiangdong Zhang

A theory in which 4-dimensional spacetime is generalized to a larger space, namely a 16-dimensional Clifford space (C-space) is investigated. Curved Clifford space can provide a realization of Kaluza-Klein theory. A covariant Dirac equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Matej Pavsic

In this paper we discuss a formulation of relativistic quantum mechanics that uses Euclidean Green functions or generating functionals as input. This formalism has a close relation to quantum field theory, but as a theory of linear…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-05-28 Philip Kopp , Wayne Polyzou
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