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Quantum Fields in Curved Space
N. D. Birrell,Paul Davies +1 more
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A comprehensive review of the subject of gravitational effects in quantum field theory can be found in this paper, where special emphasis is given to the Hawking black hole evaporation effect, and to particle creation processes in the early universe.Abstract:
This book presents a comprehensive review of the subject of gravitational effects in quantum field theory. Although the treatment is general, special emphasis is given to the Hawking black hole evaporation effect, and to particle creation processes in the early universe. The last decade has witnessed a phenomenal growth in this subject. This is the first attempt to collect and unify the vast literature that has contributed to this development. All the major technical results are presented, and the theory is developed carefully from first principles. Here is everything that students or researchers will need to embark upon calculations involving quantum effects of gravity at the so-called one-loop approximation level.read more
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Group field cosmology: a cosmological field theory of quantum geometry
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Waiting for Unruh
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Harvesting correlations in Schwarzschild and collapsing shell spacetimes
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the performance of two Unruh-DeWitt static detectors from the vacuum state of a massless scalar field in a background Vaidya spacetime consisting of a collapsing null shell that forms a Schwarzschild black hole.
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Surface Casimir densities and induced cosmological constant in higher dimensional braneworlds
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the surface energy-momentum tensor for a massive scalar field with general curvature coupling parameter obeying the Robin boundary conditions on two codimension one-parallel branes in a (D+1)-dimensional background spacetime.
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Asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes and conserved quantities in higher curvature gravitational theories
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Particle Creation by Black Holes
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