THERMAL VACUUM RADIATION IN SPONTANEOUSLY BROKEN SECOND-QUANTIZED THEORIES ON CURVED PHASE SPACES OF CONSTANT CURVATURE

DOI10.1142/S0219887809003655zbMATH Open1169.81019arXiv0904.3814MaRDI QIDQ3636449FDOQ3636449

Manuel Calixto, Víctor Aldaya

Publication date: 30 June 2009

Published in: International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We construct second-quantized (field) theories on coset spaces of pseudo-unitary groups U(p,q)$. The existence of degenerated quantum vacua (coherent states of zero modes) leads to a breakdown of the original pseudo-unitary symmetry. The action of some spontaneously broken symmetry transformations destabilize the vacuum and make it to radiate. We study the structure of this thermal radiation for curved phase spaces of constant curvature: complex projective spaces CP^{N-1}=SU(N)/U(N-1) and open complex balls CD^{N-1}=SU(1,N-1)/U(N-1). Positive curvature is related to generalized Fermi-Dirac (FD) statistics, whereas negative curvature is connected with generalized Bose-Einstein (BE) statistics, the standard cases being recovered for N=2. We also make some comments on the contribution of the vacuum (dark) energy to the cosmological constant and the phenomenon of inflation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.3814

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zbMATH Keywords

coherent statesquantum statisticszero modescurvaturespontaneous symmetry breakingvacuum energycoset spacesgroup representation theoryFulling-Unruh effectpseudo-unitary groupsground state excitationsBergmann's kernel

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of Lie groups to the sciences; explicit representations (22E70) Coherent states (81R30) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Axiomatic quantum field theory; operator algebras (81T05) Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Black holes (83C57)

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