Description
Chair: Lucca Fazza Macron
As a quantum field theory (QFT), the Standard Model describes particle interactions at zero temperature with remarkable accuracy. However, at high temperatures, such as those in the early universe, its constituents become an interacting plasma of elementary particles which is best described by combining quantum statistical mechanics with relativistic field theory. One of the preferred...
Quantum energy inequalities (QEIs) are restrictions on the duration and magnitude of the negative values that the renormalized energy density can admit in the context of quantum field theory. They have been proven for several free fields in flat and curved spacetimes. Non-minimally coupled scalar classical fields can violate all the main pointwise energy conditions. In this work, we calculate...
