A preferred ground state for the scalar field in de Sitter space

DOI10.1007/JHEP08(2013)039zbMATH Open1342.83290arXiv1306.3231MaRDI QIDQ737487FDOQ737487

D. Kharzeev

Publication date: 12 August 2016

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate a recent proposal for a distinguished vacuum state of a free scalar quantum field in an arbitrarily curved spacetime, known as the Sorkin-Johnston (SJ) vacuum, by applying it to de Sitter space. We derive the associated two-point functions on both the global and Poincar'e (cosmological) patches in general d+1 dimensions. In all cases where it is defined, the SJ vacuum belongs to the family of de Sitter invariant alpha-vacua. We obtain different states depending on the spacetime dimension, mass of the scalar field, and whether the state is evaluated on the global or Poincar'e patch. We find that the SJ vacuum agrees with the Euclidean/Bunch-Davies state for heavy ("principal series") fields on the global patch in even spacetime dimensions. We also compute the SJ vacuum on a causal set corresponding to a causal diamond in 1+1 dimensional de Sitter space. Our simulations show that the mean of the SJ two-point function on the causal set agrees well with its expected continuum counterpart.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1306.3231

Recommendations

• On a recent construction of `vacuum-like' quantum field states in curved spacetime
• A distinguished vacuum state for a quantum field in a curved spacetime: formalism, features, and cosmology
• ‘Vacuum-like’ Hadamard states for quantum fields on curved spacetimes
• The art of the state
• TWO-POINT FUNCTIONS AND QUANTUM FIELDS IN DE SITTER UNIVERSE

zbMATH Keywords

field theories in higher dimensionscosmology of theories beyond the SMnonperturbative effectsspace-time symmetries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Kaluza-Klein and other higher-dimensional theories (83E15)

Cites Work

• Mersenne twister
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time
• Existence of local covariant time ordered products of quantum fields in curved spacetime
• Particle creation by black holes
• Local Wick polynomials and time ordered products of quantum fields in curved spacetime
• Microlocal analysis and interacting quantum field theories: renormalization on physical back\-grounds.
• Perturbative \(S\)-matrix for massive scalar fields in global de Sitter space
• The commutation laws of relativistic field theory
• Particle propagators on discrete spacetime
• Particle decays and stability on the de Sitter universe
• Title not available (Why is that?)
• A distinguished vacuum state for a quantum field in a curved spacetime: formalism, features, and cosmology
• On a recent construction of ‘vacuum-like’ quantum field states in curved spacetime
• An introduction to quantum field theory in de Sitter space-time
• A numerical study of the correspondence between paths in a causal set and geodesics in the continuum

Cited In (4)

• Towards spacetime entanglement entropy for interacting theories
• Spacetime entanglement entropy: covariance and discreteness
• On the (Non)Hadamard property of the SJ state in a 1+1 D causal diamond
• Waves in the Witten bubble of nothing and the Hawking wormhole

Uses Software

• Digital Library of Mathematical Functions
• MersenneTwister

This page was built for publication: A preferred ground state for the scalar field in de Sitter space

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q737487)