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Treating the gravitational force on the same footing as the electroweak and strong forces, we present a quantum field theory of gravity based on spin and scaling gauge symmetries. A biframe spacetime is initiated to describe such a quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-01-20 Yue-Liang Wu

Effective field theory provides a perturbative framework to study the evolution of cosmological large-scale structure. We investigate the underpinnings of this approach, and suggest new ways to compute correlation functions of cosmological…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-16 Sean M. Carroll , Stefan Leichenauer , Jason Pollack

Despite the many outstanding cosmological observations leading to a strong evidence for a nonvanishing cosmological constant (CC) term in the gravitational field equations, the theoretical status of this quantity seems to be lagging well…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-02-11 Ilya L. Shapiro , Joan Sola

After short historical overview we describe the difficulties with application of standard QFT methods in quantum gravity (QG). The incompatibility of QG with the use of classical continuous space-time required conceptually new approach. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-12-01 Jerzy Lukierski

In this article we investigated the influence of the gravity induced higher dimensional operators on the issue of vacuum stability in a model containing two interacting scalar fields. As a framework we used the curved spacetime Effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-01 Zygmunt Lalak , Anna Nakonieczna , Łukasz Nakonieczny

The Cosmological Constant Problem is re-examined from an effective field theory perspective. While the connection between gravity and particle physics has not been experimentally probed in the quantum regime, it is severely constrained by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Raman Sundrum

Conformal field theory (CFT) has been extremely successful in describing large-scale universal effects in one-dimensional (1D) systems at quantum critical points. Unfortunately, its applicability in condensed matter physics has been limited…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-15 Jérôme Dubail , Jean-Marie Stéphan , Jacopo Viti , Pasquale Calabrese

In this article we propose a `second quantization' scheme especially suitable to deal with non-trivial, highly symmetric phase spaces, implemented within a more general Group Approach to Quantization, which recovers the standard Quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-28 M. Calixto , V. Aldaya , M. Navarro

Within a perturbative cosmological regime of loop quantum gravity corrections to effective constraints are computed. This takes into account all inhomogeneous degrees of freedom relevant for scalar metric modes around flat space and results…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Martin Bojowald , Hector Hernandez , Mikhail Kagan , Aureliano Skirzewski

In this Thesis we study quantum corrections to the classical dynamics for mean values in field theory. To that end we make use of the formalism of the closed time path effective action to get real and causal equations of motion. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Diego A. R. Dalvit

The extreme electromagnetic or gravitational fields associated with some astrophysical objects can give rise to macroscopic effects arising from the physics of the quantum vacuum. Therefore, these objects are incredible laboratories for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-21 Dan Mazur

Several new results regarding the quantum cosmology of the quadratic gravity theory derived from the heterotic string effective action are presented. After describing techniques for solving the Wheeler-De Witt equation with appropriate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Simon Davis , Hugh Luckock

We take an Effective Field Theory (EFT) approach to unifying existing proposals for the origin of cosmic acceleration and its connection to cosmological observations. Building on earlier work where EFT methods were used with observations to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-24 Jolyon K. Bloomfield , Éanna É. Flanagan , Minjoon Park , Scott Watson

We obtain effective equations of inflationary dynamics for the mean inflaton and metric fields in the no-boundary and tunneling quantum states of the Universe. In the slow roll approximation (taking the form of the local Schwiger-DeWitt…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 A. O. Barvinsky , A. Yu. Kamenshchik

We review the effective field theories (EFTs) developed for few-nucleon systems. These EFTs are controlled expansions in momenta, where certain (leading-order) interactions are summed to all orders. At low energies, an EFT with only contact…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 P. F. Bedaque , U. van Kolck

In this work, we study the key role of generic Effective Field Theory (EFT) framework to quantify the correlation functions in a quasi de Sitter background for an arbitrary initial choice of the quantum vacuum state. We perform the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-11 Sayantan Choudhury

We investigate the scalar perturbations and the possible strong coupling issues of $f(T)$ around a cosmological background, applying the effective field theory (EFT) approach. We revisit the generalized EFT framework of modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-22 Yu-Min Hu , Yaqi Zhao , Xin Ren , Bo Wang , Emmanuel N. Saridakis , Yi-Fu Cai

We develop the effective field theory approach to torsional modified gravities, a formalism that allows for the systematic investigation of the background and perturbation levels separately. Starting from the usual effective field theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-03 Chunlong Li , Yong Cai , Yi-Fu Cai , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

In this paper, we explore the nonsingular cosmology within the framework of the Effective Field Theory(EFT) of cosmological perturbations. Due to the recently proved no-go theorem, any nonsingular cosmological models based on the cubic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-24 Yong Cai , Youping Wan , Hai-Guang Li , Taotao Qiu , Yun-Song Piao

We apply the effective field theory approach to quasi-single field inflation, which contains an additional scalar field with Hubble scale mass other than inflaton. Based on the time-dependent spatial diffeomorphism, which is not broken by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Toshifumi Noumi , Masahide Yamaguchi , Daisuke Yokoyama