Cosmological constant in a quantum fluid model

DOI10.1142/S0218271811020470MaRDI QIDQ4914260zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors J. A. Sánchez-Monroy, C. J. Quimbay

Publication date 18 April 2013

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.1047

zbMATH Keywords

boundary conditionscosmological constant problemquantum fluidvacuum energy densityvacuum state

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Einstein's equations (general structure, canonical formalism, Cauchy problems) (83C05) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Abstract: Possible analogies between vacuum state and quantum fluid provide a model to study vacuum energy density induced by thermal corrections, space-time curvature, boundary conditions and quantum back-reaction. We find that vacuum energy density in this quantum fluid model is not naturally of the order of the matter energy density. We show how higher-order corrections in quantum back-reaction can also contribute to vacuum energy density, and how the cosmological expansion is a manifestation of an universe out of mechanical equilibrium. This last fact implies that simple thermodynamic arguments are not enough to explain the cosmological constant problem due to the calculation of the associated vacuum energy density requires first the knowing of the underlying microscopic physics of vacuum.

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