De Sitter Space and Positive Energy

Author(s):  
T.O. PHILIPS ◽  
E.P. WIGNER
2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Banks ◽  
Bingnan Zhang

We complete an old argument that causal diamonds in the crunching region of the Lorentzian continuation of a Coleman-Deluccia instanton for transitions out of de Sitter space have finite area, and provide quantum models consistent with the principle of detailed balance, which can mimic the instanton transition probabilities for the cases where this diamond is larger or smaller than the causal patch of de Sitter space. We review arguments that potentials which do not have a positive energy theorem when the lowest de Sitter minimum is shifted to zero, may not correspond to real models of quantum gravity.


2012 ◽  
Vol 29 (19) ◽  
pp. 194002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Óscar J C Dias ◽  
Gary T Horowitz ◽  
Jorge E Santos
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2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Samim Akhtar ◽  
Sayantan Choudhury ◽  
Satyaki Chowdhury ◽  
Debopam Goswami ◽  
Sudhakar Panda ◽  
...  

Abstract In this work, our prime objective is to study non-locality and long range effect of two body correlation using quantum entanglement from various information theoretic measure in the static patch of de Sitter space using a two body Open Quantum System (OQS). The OQS is described by a system of two entangled atoms, surrounded by a thermal bath, which is modelled by a massless probe scalar field. Firstly, we partially trace over the bath field and construct the Gorini Kossakowski Sudarshan Lindblad (GSKL) master equation, which describes the time evolution of the reduced subsystem density matrix. This GSKL master equation is characterized by two components, these are-Spin chain interaction Hamiltonian and the Lindbladian. To fix the form of both of them, we compute the Wightman functions for probe massless scalar field. Using this result alongwith the large time equilibrium behaviour we obtain the analytical solution for reduced density matrix. Further using this solution we evaluate various entanglement measures, namely Von-Neumann entropy, R$$e'$$e′nyi entropy, logarithmic negativity, entanglement of formation, concurrence and quantum discord for the two atomic subsystem on the static patch of De-Sitter space. Finally, we have studied violation of Bell-CHSH inequality, which is the key ingredient to study non-locality in primordial cosmology.


2014 ◽  
Vol 351 ◽  
pp. 872-899 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Feng ◽  
Yao-Zhong Zhang ◽  
Mark D. Gould ◽  
Heng Fan ◽  
Cheng-Yi Sun ◽  
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