Exact ground-state energy-density in a nontrivial quantum field theory in four dimensions

1983 ◽  
Vol 38 (9) ◽  
pp. 318-320
Author(s):  
E. B. Manoukian
1985 ◽  
Vol 54 (23) ◽  
pp. 2481-2484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl M. Bender ◽  
Paul H. Burchard ◽  
Ashok Das ◽  
Hwa-Aun Lim ◽  
Joel A. Shapiro

2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (11) ◽  
pp. 2355-2363 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. H. FORD

Quantum field theory allows for the suppression of vacuum fluctuations, leading to sub-vacuum phenomena. One of these is the appearance of local negative energy density. Selected aspects of negative energy will be reviewed, including the quantum inequalities which limit its magnitude and duration. However, these inequalities allow the possibility that negative energy and related effects might be observable. Some recent proposals for experiments to search for sub-vacuum phenomena will be discussed. Fluctuations of the energy density around its mean value will also be considered, and some recent results on a probability distribution for the energy density in two dimensional spacetime are summarized.


2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (03) ◽  
pp. 1550023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter K. F. Kuhfittig

This paper addresses the following issues: (1) the possible existence of macroscopic traversable wormholes, given a noncommutative-geometry background and (2) the possibility of allowing zero tidal forces, given a known density. It is shown that whenever the energy density describes a classical wormhole, the resulting solution is incompatible with quantum-field theory. If the energy density originates from noncommutative geometry, then zero tidal forces are allowed. Also attributable to the noncommutative geometry is the violation of the null energy condition. The wormhole geometry satisfies the usual requirements, including asymptotic flatness.


1999 ◽  
Vol 10 (07) ◽  
pp. 1327-1333
Author(s):  
COLIN CHISHOLM ◽  
MARK LUKEMAN ◽  
N. JAN ◽  
D. L. HUNTER

We measure the "inherent structures" of the ±J Ising spin glass in four dimensions (4D) and find a behavior similar to that seen for the 2D and 3D systems. We are able to determine the transition temperature from the overlap between the quenched states and the equilibrium states. We find that the transition temperature Tsg is 2.07±0.05 which agrees well with the recently reported value of 2.03±0.03 by Maranari and Zuliani. We also find that the ground state energy for the 4D spin glass is near -2.087±0.005, a more precise estimate than the value of -1.83 reported earlier.


2021 ◽  
pp. 2150155
Author(s):  
A. K. Kapoor

This work is continuation of a stochastic quantization program reported earlier. In this paper, we propose a consistent scheme of doing computations directly in four dimensions using conventional quantum field theory methods.


2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (08) ◽  
pp. 1007-1019
Author(s):  
SANG-HOON KIM ◽  
MUKUNDA P. DAS

Divergence exponents of the first-order quantum correction of a two-dimensional hard-sphere Bose atoms are obtained by an effective field theory method. The first-order correction to the ground-state energy density with respect to the zeroth-order is given by [Formula: see text], where D is the spatial dimension, and γ is the gas parameter (γ = naD). As D →2, α = α′ = 1. We show that the first-order quantum correction of the energy density is not perturbative in low dimensions of D < 2.2 regardless of any gas parameter which is much less than unity.


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