Introduction to Quantum Fields in Curved Spacetime and the Hawking Effect

By T. Jacobson. 2003

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These notes introduce the subject of quantum field theory in curved spacetime and some of its applications and the questions they raise. Topics include particle creation in time-dependent metrics, quantum origin of primordial perturbations, Hawking effect, the trans-Planckian question, and Hawking radiation on a lattice.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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The Black Hole Information Problem (2016, background): “The importance of the adiabatic principle was emphasized by Jacobson [18]; it was also employed in [19].”
Analogue Gravity (2005, background): “The lecture notes by Jacobson [191] give a nice introduction to Hawking radiation and its connection to analogue spacetimes.”
Colloquium: Stimulating uncertainty: Amplifying the quantum vacuum with superconducting circuits (2011, methodology): “We follow the analysis in (Jacobson, 2003) and begin with the harmonic oscillator described by the Hamiltonian H = p2/(2m) + mω2x2/2.”
An apologia for firewalls (2013, background): “Discussions of the link between the UV structure of the quantum state and transhorizon correlations can be found in [18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25] and are particularly quantitative and explicit in [5].”
Quantum Gravity in Everyday Life: General Relativity as an Effective Field Theory (2003, background): “(See [96] for a review, with references, of these calculations.”