The Quantum vacuum and the cosmological constant problem

By S. Rugh, H. Zinkernagel. 2000

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The cosmological constant problem arises at the intersection between general relativity and quantum field theory, and is regarded as a fundamental problem in modern physics. In this paper we describe the historical and conceptual origin of the cosmological constant problem which is intimately connected to the vacuum concept in quantum field theory. We critically discuss how the problem rests on the notion of physically real vacuum energy, and which relations between general relativity and quantum field theory are assumed in order to make the problem well-defined.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Citations in the corpus

• Issues in the Philosophy of Cosmology (2006, background): “There is no known physics reason why this force should exist at this level where it is just detectable — quantum field theory relates the cosmological constant to the zero-point energy of the vacuum, and suggests it should be enormously larger than observed [234, 235, 186, 243, 212].”
• The Quantum Vacuum (2014, background): “issue in modern cosmology (Rugh and Zinkernagel, 2002; Volovik, 2006).”