Jan 22 – 24, 2025
Tours, France
Europe/Paris timezone

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  1. Elizabeth Winstanley (University of Sheffield)
    1/22/25, 9:00 AM
    Plenary Talk

    We study the back-reaction of a quantum scalar field on anti-de Sitter (AdS) space-time. The renormalized expectation value of the stress-energy tensor operator (RSET) for a quantum scalar field on global AdS space-time acts as a source term on the right-hand-side of the Einstein equations for the quantum-corrected metric. We find the RSETs for rotating and nonrotating thermal states on global...

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  2. Pengming Zhang (Sun Yat-sen University, China)
    1/22/25, 9:40 AM

    Zel’dovich and Polnarev suggested that particles hit by a burst of gravitational waves generated by a flyby would merely be displaced. Their prediction is confirmed by fine-tuning the derivative-of-a-Gaussian wave profile proposed by Gibbons and Hawking, or analytically by its approximation by a P¨oschl-Teller potential. The study is extended to higher-order derivative profiles as proposed for...

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  3. Dr Massimiliano Rinaldi (University of Trento)
    1/22/25, 10:05 AM
    Regular Talk

    Recently, a renewed interest has emerged towards the possibility that the mass of black holes grow with the expansion of the Universe. This issue was theoretically investigated almost century ago by McVittie but, since then, not much progress was done. However, the recent analysis of a class of elliptical galaxies have open again the possibility that the mass of supermassive black holes can...

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  4. Fumiya Sano (Institute of Science Tokyo / Institute for Basic Science)
    1/22/25, 11:05 AM
    Regular Talk

    Supported by observational evidence indicating that cosmological scalar perturbations were nearly Gaussian at the beginning of the universe, it is anticipated that the origin of these perturbations is quantum fluctuations. Consequently, cosmic inflation provides a valuable setting for testing the quantum nature with/of gravity. Quantumness is characterized by features such as quantum...

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  5. Francesco Becattini (Università di Firenze)
    1/22/25, 11:30 AM
    Plenary Talk

    In this work, we present a new result concerning the stress-energy
    tensor of a quantum field theory at global thermodynamic equilibrium
    in curved space-time. By using known exact results in literature
    for the massless scalar free field in Minkowski, deSitter, antideSitter and
    Einstein static Universe, we demonstrate that the stress-energy
    tensor at equilibrium in curved space-time has...

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  6. Daniele Roselli (Università degli studi di Firenze & INFN Firenze)
    1/22/25, 1:40 PM
    Regular Talk

    We calculate the energy density and pressure of a scalar field after its decoup-
    ling from a thermal bath in the spatially flat Friedman–Lemaître–Robertson–
    Walker space-time, within the framework of quantum statistical mechanics.
    By using the density operator determined by the condition of local thermo-
    dynamic equilibrium, we calculate the mean value of the stress-energy tensor
    of a...

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  7. Marc Schneider (University of the Basque Country)
    1/22/25, 2:05 PM
    Regular Talk

    The singularity theorems of Penrose and Hawking are based on geodesic incompleteness and predict the occurrence of classical singularities under rather general circumstances. In general relativity, these singularities represent absolute boundaries where space-time ends.
    Physically, however, this criterion refers to the fate of point like classical test particles. We raise the question: What...

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  8. Sebastian Franchino-Viñas (Università di Genova)
    1/22/25, 2:30 PM
    Plenary Talk

    Recently there has been a considerable debate about possible novel mechanisms for pair creation in the context of quantum field theories in external backgrounds. These results are based on appropriate resummation techniques that allow a nonperturbative analysis of the corresponding theory.

    In this talk, we will review new developments in resummations for scalar, gauge and gravitational...

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  9. Gonçalo Quinta (Physics of Information and Quantum Technologies Group, Telecommunications Institute)
    1/22/25, 3:10 PM
    Regular Talk

    We develop a non-conventional description of the vacuum energy in quantum field theory in terms of quantum entropy. Precisely, we show that the vacuum energy of any non-interacting quantum field at zero temperature is proportional to the quantum entropy of the qubit degrees of freedom associated with virtual fluctuations. We prove this for fermions first and then extend the derivation to...

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  10. Antonia Micol Frassino (SISSA)
    1/22/25, 3:35 PM
    Plenary Talk

    In this talk, I will explore the impact of quantum corrections on black holes regarding spacetime inequalities and the weak cosmic censorship conjecture. I will present refined versions of the quantum Penrose and reverse isoperimetric inequalities, valid in three-dimensional asymptotically anti-de Sitter spacetimes, and discuss their implications for cosmic censorship and black hole entropy....

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  11. Benito A Juárez-Aubry (University of York)
    1/22/25, 4:45 PM
    Regular Talk

    It is common folklore that semiclassical arguments suggest that in black hole evaporation an initially pure state can become mixed. This is known as the \emph{information loss puzzle} (or {\it paradox}). Here we argue that, if taken at face value, semiclassical gravity suggests the formation of a final singularity instead of information loss. A quantum strong cosmic censorship conjecture, for...

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  12. David Edward Bruschi (Institute for Quantum Computing Analytics (PGI-12), Forschungszentrum Jülich)
    1/22/25, 5:10 PM
    Plenary Talk

    General relativity and quantum mechanics are the two frameworks through which we understand Nature. To date, they have been successful at providing accurate predictions of natural phenomena in their respective domains of validity. Many attempts to find a unified theory of Nature that can describe all of observable phenomena have been tried with varying degrees of success. Regardless, the quest...

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  13. Kunihito Uzawa (Kwansei Gakuin University)
    1/22/25, 5:50 PM
    Regular Talk

    The de Sitter conjecture yields a severe bound on scalar potentials for a consistent quantum gravity. We extend the de Sitter conjecture by taking into account the kinetic term of the scalar field. We then apply such an extended de Sitter conjecture to a quintessence model of inflation for which dynamics of the scalar field is essential, and obtain an allowed region for parameters of the...

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  14. Prof. Kenji Fukushima (The University of Tokyo)
    1/23/25, 9:00 AM
    Plenary Talk

    The talk is based on two recent works: 2409.18652 about magnetovortical matter in collaboration with Koichi Hattori and Kazuya Mameda and a forthcoming paper about Chiral EFT for the system where finite $\theta$ and magnetic field $B$ coexist, which was done in collaboration with Prabal Adhikari. In the former, we found a nontrivial interplay between the spin, the orbital angular momentum,...

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  15. Sergio Morales Tejera (West university of Timisoara)
    1/23/25, 9:40 AM
    Regular Talk

    Unbounded rigidly rotating systems necessarily lead to superluminal motion and are, therefore, considered pathological. Remarkably, recent studies on chiral symmetry breaking under rotation provide similar results in the rigorous bounded and formal unbounded approaches. As a particular example, we consider the linear sigma model coupled with dynamical quarks undergoing rigid rotation in...

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  16. Yusuke Shimada
    1/23/25, 10:05 AM
    Regular Talk

    In this talk, we will report our recent achievements based on refs. [1,2]. Below are highlights from our results.

    Perturbative Confinement under Imaginary Rotation
    We perturbatively calculated the Polyakov loop potential at high $T$ by introducing imaginary angular velocity. Under the rapid imaginary rotation, the potential favors zero Polyakov loop, i.e. confinement. In ref. [1],...

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  17. Taro Kimura (Université de Bourgogne)
    1/23/25, 11:05 AM
    Plenary Talk

    We show that, for each symmetry class based on the tenfold way classification of topological insulators/superconductors, the effective Dirac operator obtained by integrating out the additional bulk direction takes a value in the corresponding classifying space, from which we obtain the flat band Hamiltonian. We then obtain the overlap Dirac operator for each symmetry class and establish the...

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  18. Matteo Buzzegoli (West University of Timisoara)
    1/23/25, 11:45 AM
    Regular Talk

    In this talk, I first summarize how systems at local thermal equilibrium are described by the partition function of the underlying QFT in a fictitious curved space-time constructed with the hydrodynamic fields [1]. I list how this duality has been used to study systems at thermal equilibrium in the presence of acceleration and rotation. In particular, I show how this helps to describe systems...

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  19. Dražen Glavan (CEICO, Prague, Czech Republic)
    1/23/25, 1:40 PM
    Plenary Talk

    Effects of ultraviolet completions of gravity can be captured
    in low-energy regimes by local higher curvature corrections. Such
    description, however, is limited to yield strictly perturbative
    corrections, due to unphysical Ostrogradsky instabilities induced by
    higher derivatives in the correction terms. I will present a procedure
    for expunging spurious degrees of freedom from effective...

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  20. Claudio Coriano (Universita del Salento, Italy)
    1/23/25, 2:20 PM
    Regular Talk

    Axion-like interactions are characterised by an off-shell effective action manifesting the exchange of anomaly poles in chiral and gravitational correlators. We examine sum rules in JJJA (axial-vector/vector-vector-vector) and JATT (axial-vector/stress-energy tensor) correlators, highlighting the transition of anomaly poles to branch cuts beyond the conformal limit. Conformal Ward identities...

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  21. Pracheta Singha (West University of Timisoara)
    1/23/25, 2:45 PM
    Regular Talk

    We study the effect of rotation on the confining and chiral properties of QCD using the linear sigma model with quarks coupled to the Polyakov loop in an attempt to resolve discrepancies between the first principle numerical and model-based analytical results. The rotational effects are incorporated through the formulation of this quasiparticle model in an effectively curved space-time metric....

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  22. Francesco Del Porro (Niels Bohr Institute)
    1/23/25, 3:10 PM
    Regular Talk

    Analogue Hawking radiation from acoustic horizons is now a well-established phenomenon, both theoretically and experimentally. Its persistence, despite the modified dispersion relations characterizing phonons in analogue spacetimes, represents an evidence of the robustness of this effect against the ultraviolet non-relativistic modification of the particles' behavior. Previous theoretical...

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  23. Dr Michael Florian Wondrak (IMAPP, Radboud University Nijmegen)
    1/23/25, 4:30 PM
    Plenary Talk

    This talk discusses a new avenue to particle production in curved spacetimes and black hole evaporation using a heat-kernel approach in the context of effective field theory analogous to deriving the Schwinger effect. Applying this method to an uncharged massless scalar field in a Schwarzschild spacetime, we show that spacetime curvature takes a similar role as the electric field strength in...

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  24. Cristiano Germani (Universitat de Barcelona)
    1/23/25, 5:10 PM
    Plenary Talk

    Primordial Black Holes are the outcome of rarely large cosmological fluctuations generated during a post slow-roll and non-attractor phase of inflation. Several authors reported a loss of (quantum) perturbative predictability of cosmological perturbations in the transition from the two phases. In this talk I will clarify that, in all physically relevant cases, quantum perturbation theory is...

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  25. Sergey Bondarenko (Ariel University, Israel)
    1/23/25, 5:50 PM
    Regular Talk

    We consider a model of Einstein-Cartan gravity with rectangular vielbein field introduced. A particular case with five internal indexes for the four-dimensional Riemann manifold is explored. As a result we obtain an additional vierbein field absent in the regular formulation of the Einstein-Cartan gravity with equal number of the Riemann and internal indexes. The new vierbein field allows to...

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  26. Kenichi Konishi (Univ. of Pisa / INFN, Pisa)
    1/24/25, 9:00 AM
    Plenary Talk

    I will discuss the strong-interaction dynamics of tensorial chiral gauge theories in four dimensions, extending previous work on other chiral gauge theories such as the Bars-Yankielowicz or Georgi-Glashow models, based on the consideration of the generalized symmetries and mixed anomalies. The stricter ’t Hooft anomaly matching conditions for these new anomalies strongly suggests the systems...

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  27. Rémy Larue (ShanghaiTech University)
    1/24/25, 9:40 AM
    Regular Talk

    Anomalous parity violation in four dimensions would be significant for phenomenology (baryogenesis, gravitational waves) and mathematical physics. Over the past decade, there has been a controversy in the literature as to whether free Weyl fermions give rise to (anomalous) parity violation in the trace of the energy momentum tensor; expressed by the Pontryagin densities $R\tilde R$ and...

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  28. Mr Marco Pasini (University of Udine)
    1/24/25, 10:05 AM
    Regular Talk

    In recent years, a considerable amount of literature has suggested that spontaneously
    broken quantum field theories can undergo a phase transition to an
    unbroken phase due to the effect of Unruh radiation, experienced by uniformly
    accelerated observers, at sufficiently high accelerations. However, earlier works
    (including one by Unruh himself) and standard renormalization techniques...

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  29. Yannick Herfray (Institut Denis Poisson (Université de Tours))
    1/24/25, 11:05 AM
    Plenary Talk

    In the last years, it has been demonstrated that asymptotic symmetries of gravity (the so called BMS group) constrain the gravitational S-matrix. In particular, infrared divergences of the gravitational S-matrix are now understood to arise from to the impossibility of the usual fock space of massless particles to ensure the conservation of the BMS charges.

    I will review these results...

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  30. Xavier Bekaert (Institut Denis Poisson)
    1/24/25, 11:45 AM
    Regular Talk

    Wavefunctions for unitary irreducible representations (UIRs) of the Bondi-Metzner-Sachs (BMS) group are constructed. They are shown to describe quantum superpositions of (Poincaré) particles propagating on inequivalent gravity vacua. This follows from reconsidering McCarthy's classification of BMS group UIRs through a unique, Lorentz-invariant but non-linear, decomposition of supermomenta into...

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  31. Dr Germain Rousseaux (CNRS)
    1/24/25, 1:40 PM
    Plenary Talk

    In this talk, we will make a review of the recent achievements of Analogue Gravity in interfacial hydrodynamics with the purpose of probing field theory with tabletop experiments in the laboratory. We will present our daily measurements of Hawking radiation with water waves on the top of a decelerating inhomogeneous current emulating the scattering of light waves by an analogue horizon. We...

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  32. João Paulo Pitelli Manoel (State University of Campinas (UNICAMP))
    1/24/25, 2:20 PM
    Regular Talk

    In this talk, we present a theoretical model to describe a finite-size particle detector, focusing on the derivation of its energy-momentum tensor from a covariant Lagrangian formulation. The model encompasses both the quantum field associated with the detector ($\phi_{\textrm{D}}$) and the elements responsible for its localization: a complex scalar field ($\psi_{\textrm{C}}$) and a perfect...

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  33. Prokopii Anempodistov (LPENS)
    1/24/25, 2:45 PM
    Regular Talk

    We consider (1+1)-dimensional dilatonic black hole with two horizons, canonical temperatures of which do not coincide. We show that the presence of quantum fields in such a background leads to a substantial backreaction on the metric: 2D dilatonic analog of the semiclassical Einstein equations are solved self-consistently, and we demonstrate that taking into account of backreaction leads to a...

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  34. Giandomenico Palumbo
    1/24/25, 3:10 PM
    Regular Talk

    A novel oscillatory behaviour of the DC conductivity in Weyl semimetals with vacancies has recently been identified [1], occurring in the absence of external magnetic fields. Here, we argue that this effect has a geometric interpretation in terms of a magnetic-like field induced by an emergent Weyl connection. This geometric gauge field is related to the non-metricity of the underlying...

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  35. Maxime Jacquet (Sorbonne Université)
    1/24/25, 4:05 PM
    Plenary Talk

    Quantum field theory in curved spacetimes (QFTCS) predicts the amplification of field excitations and the occurrence of classical and quantum correlations, as in the Hawking effect for example. This raises the interest for experiments in which the curvature of spacetime can be controlled and correlations measured. Such analogue simulations are typically done with fluids accelerating from sub-...

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  36. Giorgio Torrieri (University of Campinas)
    1/24/25, 4:45 PM
    Plenary Talk

    Ideal hydrodynamics, as a generally covariant theory, can
    be considered as a simplified version of general relativity. We will
    show that this general covariance is intimately related to statistical
    mechanics underlying local thermalization. We will then describe the
    problem of including statistical fluctuations in relativistic
    non-ideal hydrodynamics, a still open issue connected to...

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  37. Dr Stamatios Nicolis (Institut Denis Poisson, Tours)
    1/24/25, 5:25 PM
    Regular Talk

    Arnol'd cat maps describe accelerating observers that probe the near horizon geometry of extremal black holes, when the microstates can be resolved. As single particle probes, they display the requisite properties of fast scrambling, that is the hallmark of consistent information processing in black hole spacetimes and they satisfy the non-trivial requirements of eigenstate thermalization....

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  38. Gauging Weyl symmetry as a source for the virial current
    Lorenzo Benfatto

    Ground state for a real scalar field in the cosmic string spacetime with arbitrary boundary conditions
    Victor Hugo Marques Ramos

    How curved backgrounds affect communication between quantum systems
    Alessio Lapponi

    Nontrivial self-consistent backreaction of quantum fields in 2D dilaton gravity
    Prokopii...

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  39. Ka Hei Choi (Arnold Sommerfeld Center of Theoretical Physics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich)
    Poster

    We present a local framework for investigating non-unitary evolution groups pertinent to effective field theories in general semi-classical spacetimes. Our approach is based on a rigorous local stability analysis of the algebra of observables and solely employs geometric concepts in the functional representation of quantum field theory. In this representation, it is possible to construct...

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  40. Maxim Chernodub (CNRS, Université de Tours, France)
    Poster

    We argue that the uniform acceleration of hot interacting matter produces an effect of cooling, thus leading, in particular, to the enhancement effect of spontaneous symmetry breaking. This conclusion is supported by the observation by Unruh and Weiss that thermal correlation functions computed at a temperature equal to the Unruh temperature are identical to the corresponding correlation...

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  41. Aadharsh Raj Soundararadjan Indumathi (IDP university of Tours)
    Poster

    The relation between two branches of solutions (radiative and subradiative) of wave equations on Minkowski spacetime is investigated, for the scalar field (generalisable to any integer spin), in flat Bondi coordinates where remarkable simplifications occur and allow for exact boundary-to-bulk formulae. Each branch carries a unitary irreducible representation of the Poincaré group, though an...

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  42. Evgeniy Gudkov
    Poster

    In this paper, a proof of the theorem on the global hyperbolicity of space-time M on the sphere $S^4$ is proposed based on the topology of open light cones; the work uses the so-called concrete approach to the construction of the Haag-Araki axiomatics.
    The properties of causal geodesic structures on the paracompact complement of space-time are investigated.1. A description of...

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  43. Tudor Pătuleanu (West University of Timișoara)
    Poster

    The growing interest in the thermodynamic properties of strongly-interacting systems under rotation, particularly using lattice gauge techniques on the Euclidean manifold and with an imaginary angular velocity $\Omega = i \Omega_I$, has motivated the current study of Dirac fields under imaginary rotation. For $\nu = \beta \Omega_I / 2 \pi$ a rational number, the thermodynamics of free scalar...

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  44. Dr Rajeev Singh (West University of Timisoara, Romania)
    Regular Talk

    In this talk, I will explore the impact of field redefinition on the spectrum of linearized perturbations in relativistic hydrodynamics. I show that the spectrum of hydrodynamics modes is never affected by the local field redefinition, however, the spectrum of the non-hydrodynamic modes is affected. Through an appropriate all-order redefinition, non-hydrodynamic modes can be eliminated,...

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  45. Lorenzo Benfatto (University of Pisa)
    Poster

    This project discusses the role of gauged Weyl symmetry in the Local Renormalization Group. In this approach, coupling constants are treated as functions of spacetime coordinates, leading to consequences for the two-dimensional trace anomaly. The gauge field sources a current that is identified with the virial one. In the flat-space limit, such theories exhibit scale invariance but are...

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  46. Lorenzo Benfatto (Università di Pisa)
    Poster

    This project discusses the role of gauged Weyl symmetry in the Local Renormalization Group. In this approach, coupling constants are treated as spacetime functions, leading to consequences for the two-dimensional trace anomaly.
    The gauge field sources a current that is identified with the virial one. In the flat-space limit, such theories exhibit scale invariance but are generally not...

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  47. Victor Hugo Marques Ramos (University of São Paulo)
    Poster

    We consider a real, massive scalar field in the cosmic string spacetime. First, we determine all admissible boundary conditions that can be applied at the conical singularity, and we find that no "bound state" solutions exist under these conditions. Next, we construct the two-point function for the ground state that satisfies these boundary conditions, deriving an explicit closed-form...

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  48. Matteo Sergola (IPhT/CEA Paris Saclay)
    Regular Talk

    I will present a novel approach to compute Hawking radiation based on on-shell scattering amplitudes.

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  49. César García Pérez
    Poster

    In this poster I will be sharing new calculations concerning heat kernel resummation schemes for quantum fields on a flat spacetime background. While in previous works we presented a heat kernel ansatz for both Yukawa and scalar QED interactions, the results presented here look at the case of a spinor field on a constant axial field background, which can also be seen as a torsion-like...

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  50. Alessio Lapponi (Scuola Superiore Meridionale (SSM), Napoli.)
    Poster

    Wireless communication between quantum systems can be modeled using a pair of Unruh-deWitt detectors interacting with a field in the background. Leveraging quantum properties, this approach could enhance the ability to send classical messages over distances and pave the way for transmitting quantum information. Motivated by these possibilities, we develop a quantum communication protocol using...

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  51. Victor E. Ambruș (West University of Timișoara)
    Poster

    We consider a quantum fluid at finite temperature T,
    undergoing constant acceleration a. Expressing the density operator ρ
    defining the grand-canonical ensemble as a Poincare transformation with
    imaginary parameters, we derive the Kubo-Martin-Schwinger (KMS) relation
    satisfied by the two-point functions. Expressed with respect to
    Euclidean time, the KMS relations identify points in the...

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  52. Dr RAGHVENDRA SINGH (Ariel University Israel)
    Poster

    Investigating quantum mechanical principles within the context of gravity reveals significant insights into how spacetime curvature fundamentally influences quantum phenomena, particularly regarding the uncertainty principle and quantum coherence. This study presents a covariant Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP) that incorporates curvature-induced modifications to canonical commutation...

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  53. Antonino Flachi (Keio University)
    Poster

    A new interpretation of the Casimir effect is presented, in which the Casimir energy is expressed as the quantum ``Von Neumann'' entropy associated to a 2-qubit, mixed, non-separable, pseudo-density matrix of the quantum fluctuations. This new interpretation draws parallels to the concept of quantum inseparability of quantum information theory and suggest that the Casimir energy is a measure...

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  54. Silvia Pla Garcia (TUM)
    Poster

    This project explores the effects of renormalization on the amplitude of the inflationary spectra at scales measurable in the cosmic microwave background.

    Via a gauge-invariant analysis, it is explained why the standard prediction for the spectra on superhorizon scales is a late-time attractor while they are UV finite at all times. This result is independent of the equation of state after...

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  55. Maël Chantreau (Institut Denis Poisson)
    Poster

    In this poster, we will provide a definition for a notion of extended boundary at time-like infinity which, following Figueroa-O'Farril--Have--Prohazka--Salzer, we refer to as Ti. This definition applies to asymptotically flat spacetime in the sense of Ashtekar--Romano and is constructed solely from the asymptotic data of the metric. The group of automorphisms of this extended boundary is the...

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