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Quantum field theory in curved space-times is a well developed area in mathematical physics which has had important phenomenological applications to the very early universe. However, it is not commonly appreciated that on time dependent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-27 Ivan Agullo , Abhay Ashtekar

We show that the Unruh effect can create net quantum entanglement between inertial and accelerated observers depending on the choice of the inertial state. This striking result banishes the extended belief that the Unruh effect can only…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-22 M. Montero , E. Martin-Martinez

A quantum scalar field theory with spacetime-dependent coupling is studied. Surprisingly, while translation invariance is explicitly broken in the classical theory, momentum conservation is recovered at the quantum level for some specific…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-01-29 Gianluca Calcagni , Giuseppe Nardelli

We discuss the construction and properties of rigidly-rotating states for free scalar and fermion fields in quantum field theory. On unbounded Minkowski space-time, we explain why such states do not exist for scalars. For the Dirac field,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-12-21 Victor E. Ambrus , Elizabeth Winstanley

In thermal quantum field theory, the global Liouvillian (the generator of time translations) is passive. How is this reflected in the properties of its local density, a quantum field? We propose that the locally averaged density is bounded…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Henning Bostelmann , Daniela Cadamuro , Leonardo Sangaletti

Inspired by various quantum gravity approaches, we explore quantum field theory where spacetime exhibits scaling properties and dimensional reduction with changing energy scales, effectively behaving as a multifractal manifold. Working…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Alessio Maiezza , Juan Carlos Vasquez

Relativistic quantum field theory imposes additional fundamental restrictions on the distinguishability of quantum states. Because of the unavoidable delocalization of the quantum field states in the Minkowski space-time, the reliable (with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Laiho , S. N. Molotkov , S. S. Nazin

We give a simple argument suggesting that in a consistent quantum field theory tunneling from Minkowski to a lower energy vacuum must be impossible. Theories that allow for such a tunneling also allow for localized states of negative mass,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-07 Gia Dvali

Quantum field theory (QFT) is supposed to be gauge invariant. However it has been well established that a direct calculation of the vacuum polarization tensor produces a non-gauge invariant result. In this paper it will be shown that this…

General Physics · Physics 2017-12-15 Dan Solomon

The Newton-Wigner states and operator are widely accepted to provide an adequate notion of spatial localization of a particle in quantum field theory on a spacelike hypersurface. Replacing the spacelike with a timelike hypersurface, we…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-04 Daniele Colosi , Robert Oeckl

Minkowski vacuum is empty from the perspective of Unruh-Minkowski photons, however, in the Rindler picture, it is filled with entangled pairs of Rindler photons. A ground-state atom uniformly accelerated through Minkowski vacuum can become…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Anatoly A. Svidzinsky , Marlan O. Scully , William Unruh

We show that without Lorentz invariance, the Unruh effect does not exist. We use modified dispersion relations and describe in turn: the non-thermal nature of the vacuum (defined in the preferred frame) restricted to the Rindler wedge, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-03-02 David Campo , Nathaniel Obadia

A suitable deformation of the Hopf algebra of the creation and annihilation operators for a complex scalar field, initially quantized in Minkowski space--time, induces the canonical quantization of the same field in a generic gravitational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Iorio , G. Lambiase , G. Vitiello

We analyze, starting from first principles, the quantization of field theories, in order to find out to which problems a noncommutative time would possibly lead. We examine the problem in the interaction picture (Tomonaga-Schwinger…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-08-08 Tapio Salminen , Anca Tureanu

We give a general description of the system evolution under the interaction between qubit and quantum field theory up to the second order perturbation, which is also referred to as the simplified model of light-matter interaction. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-17 Hao Xu

In this paper, we attempt to test whether Euclidean lattice quantum field theory can be analytically continued into Minkowski space via the inverse Wick rotation. Our discussion indicates that such an analytical continuation is impossible…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-20 B. P. Kosyakov , E. Yu. Popov , M. A. Vronsky

Whenever an experiment can be described classically, quantum physics must predict the same outcome. Intuitively, there is nothing quantum about an accelerating observer travelling through a vacuum. It is therefore not surprising that many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Sara Kanzi , Daniel Hodgson , Almut Beige

It is shown how the technique of restricted path integrals (RPI) or quantum corridors (QC) may be applied for the analysis of relativistic measurements. Then this technique is used to clarify the physical nature of thermal effects as seen…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Michael B. Mensky

In this article an energy correction is calculated in the time independent perturbation setup using a regularised ultraviolet finite Hamiltonian on the noncommutative Minkowski space. The correction to the energy is invariant under rotation…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Marcel Kossow

This letter serves as the generalization of the work 2505.16436, where we investigated the quantum field theory in Klein space which has two time directions. We extend studies to the general spacetime $\mathbb{R}^{n,d-n}\,(n,d-n\geq2)$ in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-21 Bin Chen , Zezhou Hu , Xin-Cheng Mao