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Assuming that around the tachyon vacuum the kinetic term of cubic open string field theory is made purely of ghost operators we are led to gauge invariant actions which manifestly implement the absence of open string dynamics around this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-15 Leonardo Rastelli , Ashoke Sen , Barton Zwiebach

Quantum field theory is the application of quantum physics to fields. It provides a theoretical framework widely used in particle physics and condensed matter physics. One of the most distinct features of quantum physics with respect to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Magdalena Zych , Fabio Costa , Johannes Kofler , Caslav Brukner

Some basic topics in Light-Front (LF) quantized field theory are reviewed. Poincar\`e algebra and the LF Spin operator are discussed. The local scalar field theory of the conventional framework is shown to correspond to a non-local…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Prem P. Srivastava

We introduce photon theory following the same principles as for introduction of the quantum theory of a single particle, using a C*-algebraic approach based on covariance systems. The basic symmetries are additivity of the fields and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Maciej Kuna , Jan Naudts

A semiclassical picture of spontaneous symmetry breaking in light front field theory is formulated. It is based on a finite-volume quantization of self-interacting scalar fields obeying antiperiodic boundary conditions. This choice avoids a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-12-18 L. Martinovic

We prove that the two interaction Hamiltonians of light-cone closed superstring field theory in the plane-wave background present in the literature are identical.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Pankiewicz , B. Stefanski

The scattering equivalence of quantum field theories formulated with light-front and instant-form kinematic subgroups is established using non-perturbative methods. The difficulty with field theoretic formulations of Dirac's forms of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-05-26 Wayne Polyzou

Three related topics on the quantum-vacuum geometric phases in a noncoplanarly curved optical fiber is presented: (i) a brief review: the investigation of vacuum effect and its experimental realization; (ii) the sequence of ideas of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jian Qi Shen

This paper describes a light-cone quantization of a two-dimensional massive scalar field without periodic boundary conditions in order to make the quantization manifestly consistent to causality. For this purpose, the field is decomposed by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Masahiro Maeno

Observables in the quantum field theories of $(D-1)$-form fields, $\ca$, on $D$-dimensional, compact and orientable manifolds, $M$, are computed. Computations of the vacuum value of $T_{ab}$ find it to be the metric times a function of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 R. Brooks

Noncommutative field theories are a class of theories beyond the standard model of elementary particle physics. Their importance may be summarized in two facts. Firstly as field theories on noncommutative spacetimes they come with natural…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-12-24 Earnest Akofor

I present some general ideas about quantum entanglement in relativistic quantum field theory, especially entanglement in the physical vacuum. Here, entanglement is defined between different single particle states (or modes), parameterized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Yu Shi

The standard model of elementary particle physics and the theory of general relativity can be extended by the introduction of a vacuum variable which is responsible for the near vanishing of the present cosmological constant (vacuum energy…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-20 F. R. Klinkhamer , G. E. Volovik

We reformulate the standard local equations of general relativity for asymptotically flat spacetimes in terms of two non-local quantities, the holonomy $H$ around certain closed null loops on characteristic surfaces and the light cone cut…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Savitri V. Iyer , Carlos N. Kozameh , Ezra T. Newman

There is accumulating evidence in lattice QCD that attempts to locate confining fields in vacuum configurations bring results explicitly depending on tha lattice spacing (that is, ultraviolet cut off). Generically, one deals with…

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The light-cone approach is reviewed. This method allows to find the underlying quantum field theory for any integrable lattice model in its gapless regime. The relativistic spectrum and S-matrix follows straightforwardly in this way through…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-25 H. J. de Vega

The nature of space-time and surrounding matter objects was and persists to be a one of the most intriguing and challenging problems facing the mankind and natural scientists especially. As we know one of the most brilliant inventions in…

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A free-theory vacuum state of an interacting field theory, e.g. quantum gravity, is unstable at tree level in general due to spontaneous emission of Fock-space particles in any spacetime with no global timelike Killing vectors, such as de…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Atsushi Higuchi

We assume that particles are point-like objects even when not observed. We report on the consequences of our assumption within the realm of quantum theory. An important consequence is the necessity of vacuum fields to account for particle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-27 Eduardo V. Flores

The regularized vacuum fluctuation related to a conformally coupled massless scalar field defined on a space-time with dynamical horizon is computed with respect a radially moving observer in a generic flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker…

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