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Applications of the Dirac equation with an anomalous magnetic moment are considered for description of characteristics of electrons, muons and quarks. The Dirac equation with four-dimensional scalar and vector potentials is reduced to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-14 V. V. Khruschov

We consider averaged null energy conditions (ANEC) for strongly coupled quantum field theories in even (two and four) dimensional curved spacetimes by applying the no-bulk-shortcut principle in the context of the AdS/CFT duality. In the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-12-02 Norihiro Iizuka , Akihiro Ishibashi , Kengo Maeda

The quantum null energy condition (QNEC) is a conjectured bound on components $(T_{kk} = T_{ab} k^a k^b$) of the stress tensor along a null vector $k^a$ at a point $p$ in terms of a second $k$-derivative of the von Neumann entropy $S$ on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-12-29 Zicao Fu , Jason Koeller , Donald Marolf

In this paper we discuss some aspects concerning the electromagnetic sector of the abelian Lee-Wick (LW) quantum electrodynamics (QED). Using the Dirac's theory of constrained systems, the higher-order canonical quantization of the LW…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-16 R. Turcati , M. J. Neves

The issue of the vacuum energy of quantum fields is briefly reviewed. It is argued that this energy is normally either much too large or much too small to account for the dark energy, However, there are a few proposals in which it would be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 L. H. Ford

The Dirac equation is solved for triangular and hexagonal graphene quantum dots for different boundary conditions in the presence of a perpendicular magnetic field. We analyze the influence of the dot size and its geometry on their energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 M. Zarenia , A. Chaves , G. A. Farias , F. M. Peeters

The averaged null energy condition has been recently shown to hold for linear quantum fields in a large class of spacetimes. Nevertheless, it is easy to show by using a simple scaling argument that ANEC as stated cannot hold generically in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-12-30 Ulvi Yurtsever

In this paper, we study the changes of quantum effects of a growing universe by using Wheeler-DeWitt equation (WDWE) together with de Broglie-Bohm quantum trajectory approach. From WDWE, we obtain the quantum modified Friedmann equations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-14 Dongshan He , Qing-yu Cai

In Dirac's hole theory the vacuum state is generally believed to be the state of minimum energy. However it has recently been shown that this is not the case. In [1] it was shown that energy can be extracted from the hole theory vacuum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dan Solomon

We investigate the one-dimensional Coulomb potential with application to a class of quasirelativistic systems, so-called Dirac-Weyl materials, described by matrix Hamiltonians. We obtain the exact solution of the shifted and truncated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-24 C. A. Downing , M. E. Portnoi

Starting from the coupling of a relativistic quantum particle to the curved Schwarzschild space-time, we show that the Dirac--Schwarzschild problem has bound states and calculate their energies including relativistic corrections.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-08-21 U. D. Jentschura

Selection of physically meaningful solutions of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for the wavefunction in quantum cosmology, can be attained by a reduction of the theory to the sector of true physical degrees of freedom and their canonical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-06 A. O. Barvinsky , A. Yu. Kamenshchik

Quantum matter in quantum space-time is discussed using general properties of energy-conservation laws. As a rather radical conclusion, it is found that standard methods of differential geometry and quantum field theory on curved space-time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-13 Martin Bojowald , Golam Mortuza Hossain , Mikhail Kagan , Casey Tomlin

It is generally known that the energy density can be negative in quantum field theory. It is also believed that there are limits on this negative energy density. These limits are known as the quantum inequalities. In a recent paper [8] an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-22 Dan Solomon

Consistent coupling of quantum and classical degrees of freedom exists so long as there is both diffusion of the classical degrees of freedom and decoherence of the quantum system. In this paper, we derive the Newtonian limit of such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-30 Isaac Layton , Jonathan Oppenheim , Andrea Russo , Zachary Weller-Davies

We review the theory of quantum fields propagating in an arbitrary, classical, globally hyperbolic spacetime. Our review emphasizes the conceptual issues arising in the formulation of the theory and presents known results in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Stefan Hollands , Robert M. Wald

The Abnormally Weighting Energy (AWE) hypothesis consists of assuming that the dark sector of cosmology violates the weak equivalence principle (WEP) on cosmological scales, which implies a violation of the strong equivalence principle for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Fuzfa , J. -M. Alimi

We discuss the behaviour of the spectral density of the massless Dirac operator at the small eigenvalues and quark masses compatible with the restrictions imposed by the low energy theorems in QCD. Sum rule for its derivative over the quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Gorsky

We investigate the quantum motion of a neutral Dirac particle bouncing on a mirror in curved spacetime. We consider different geometries: Rindler, Kasner-Taub and Schwarzschild, and show how to solve the Dirac equation by using geometrical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Nicolas Boulanger , Fabien Buisseret , Philippe Spindel

We consider the energy levels of a hydrogen-like atom in the framework of $\theta $-modified, due to space noncommutativity, Dirac equation with Coulomb field. It is shown that on the noncommutative (NC) space the degeneracy of the levels…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-23 T. C. Adorno , M. C. Baldiotti , M. Chaichian , D. M. Gitman , A. Tureanu