Quantum Field Theory With No Zero-Point Energy
High Energy Physics - Theory
2018-07-04 v6
Abstract
Traditional quantum field theory can lead to enormous zero-point energy, which markedly disagrees with experiment. Unfortunately, this situation is built into conventional canonical quantization procedures. For identical classical theories, an alternative quantization procedure, called affine field quantization, leads to the desirable feature of having a vanishing zero-point energy. This procedure has been applied to renormalizable and nonrenormalizable covariant scalar fields, fermion fields, as well as general relativity. Simpler models are offered as an introduction to affine field quantization.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1803.05823,
title = {Quantum Field Theory With No Zero-Point Energy},
author = {John R. Klauder},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.05823},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
8 pages. additional subjects, multiple minor improvements, version approved by the referee. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1710.05085