Elaboramos um estudo detalhado de alguns aspectos d(e uma versão d)a correspondência AdS/CFT, conjeturada por Maldacena e Witten, entre teorias quânticas de campo num fundo gravitacional dado por um espaço-tempo assintoticamente anti-de Sitter (AAdS), e teorias quânticas de campos conformalmente covariantes no infinito conforme (no sentido de Penrose) deste espaço-tempo, aspectos estes: (a) independentes d(o par d)e modelos específicos em Teoria Quântica de Campos, e (b) suscetíveis a uma reformulação em moldes matematicamente rigorosos. Adotamos como ponto de partida o teorema demonstrado por Rehren no contexto da Física Quântica Local (também conhecida como Teoria Quântica de Campos Algébrica) em espaços-tempos anti-de Sitter (AdS), denominado holografia algébrica ou dualidade de Rehren. O corpo do presente trabalho consiste em estender o resultado de Rehren para uma classe razoavelmente geral de espaços-tempos AAdS d-dimensionais (d>3), escrutinar como as propriedades desta extensão são enfraquecidas e/ou modificadas em relação ao espaço-tempo AdS, e como efeitos gravitacionais não-triviais se manifestam na teoria quântica no infinito conforme. Dentre os resultados obtidos, citamos: condições razoavelmente gerais sobre geodésicas nulas no interior (cuja plausibilidade justificamos por meio de resultados de rigidez geométrica) não só garantem que a nossa generalização é geometricamente consistente com causalidade, como também permite uma reconstrução ``holográfica\'\' da topologia do interior na ausência de horizontes e singularidades; a implementação das simetrias conformes na fronteira, que associamos explicitamente a uma família de isometrias assintóticas do interior construída de maneira intrínseca, ocorre num caráter puramente assintótico e é atingida dinamicamente por um processo de retorno ao equilíbrio, mediante condições de contorno adequadas no infinito; efeitos gravitacionais podem eventualmente causar obstruções à reconstrução da teoria quântica no interior, ou por torná-la trivial em regiões suficientemente pequenas ou devido à existência de múltiplos vácuos inequivalentes, que por sua vez levam à existência de excitações solitônicas localizadas ao redor de paredes de domínio no interior, similares a D-branas. As demonstrações fazem uso extensivo de geometria Lorentziana global. A linguagem empregada para as teorias quânticas relevantes para nossa generalização da dualidade de Rehren segue a formulação funtorial de Brunetti, Fredenhagen e Verch para a Física Quântica Local, estendida posteriormente por Sommer para incorporar condições de contorno. / We elaborate a detailed study of certain aspects of (a version of) the AdS/CFT correspondence, conjectured by Maldacena and Witten, between quantum field theories in a gravitational background given by an asymptotically anti-de Sitter (AAdS) spacetime, and conformally covariant quantum field theories in the latter\'s conformal infinity (in the sense of Penrose), aspects such that: (a) are independent from (the pair of) specific models in Quantum Field Theory, and (b) susceptible to a recast in a mathematically rigorous mould. We adopt as a starting point the theorem demonstrated by Rehren in the context of Local Quantum Physics (also known as Algebraic Quantum Field Theory) in anti-de Sitter (AdS) spacetimes, called algebraic holography or Rehren duality. The main body of the present work consists in extending Rehren\'s result to a reasonably general class of d-dimensional AAdS spacetimes (d>3), scrutinizing how the properties of such an extension are weakened and/or modified as compared to AdS spacetime, and probing how non-trivial gravitational effects manifest themselves in the conformal infinity\'s quantum theory. Among the obtained results, we quote: not only does the imposition of reasonably general conditions on bulk null geodesics (whose plausibility we justify through geometrical rigidity techniques) guarantee that our generalization is geometrically consistent with causality, but it also allows a ``holographic\'\' reconstruction of the bulk topology in the absence of horizons and singularities; the implementation of conformal symmetries in the boundary, which we explicitly associate to an intrinsically constructed family of bulk asymptotic isometries, have a purely asymptotic character and is dynamically attained through a process of return to equilibrium, given suitable boundary conditions at infinity; gravitational effects may cause obstructions to the reconstruction of the bulk quantum theory, either by making the latter trivial in sufficiently small regions or due to the existence of multiple inequivalent vacua, which on their turn lead to the existence of solitonic excitations localized around domain walls, similar to D-branes. The proofs make extensive use of global Lorentzian geometry. The language employed for the quantum theories relevant for our generalization of Rehren duality follows the functorial formulation of Local Quantum Physics due to Brunetti, Fredenhagen and Verch, extended afterwards by Sommer in order to incorporate boundary conditions. (An English translation of the full text can be found at arXiv:0712.0401)

The subject matter of this thesis falls into two distinct parts. Chapters II to IV are devoted to a discussion of Schwinger's action principle, and chapters V and VI are concerned with the proof of dispersion relations for inelastic meson-nucleon scattering. The material of chapter II is based on some work done in collaboration with Dr. J.C. Polkinghorne, which has been published (Kibble and Polkinghorne 1957). This work was concerned with the clarification of certain points connected with the class of permissible variations in Schwinger's principle. There are, however, substantial changes in the present treatment, principally deriving from the introduction, in section II-5, of the concept of relative phases. This chapter is restricted to the case of non-relativistic quantum theory, and the discussion is extended to relativistic quantum field theory in chapter III. These chapters are devoted to a reformulation of Schwinger's action principle, and an investigation of the consequences of the new form of the action principle. Some of this material is necessarily contained in the work of Schwinger (1951, 1953a), but the treatment differs from his in several important respects. These are discussed in greater detail in section 2. Chapter IV is devoted to a discussion of higher order spinor Lagrangians, with particular reference to the use of a two-component field satisfying a second-order equation rather than a four-component spinor satisfying a first-order equation. This procedure has been suggested by Feynman and Gell-Mann (1958) in connection with their universal Fermi interaction. The work presented in this chapter was done jointly with Dr. J.C. Polkinghorne, and has been published (Kibble and Polkinghorne 1958). Chapters V and VI are devoted to a proof of the dispersion relations for the process in which a single meson is scattered on a nucleon into a state with several mesons. The proof follows the general lines of that by Bogolyubov, Medvedev and Polivanov (1956) for the case of elastic meson-nucleon scattering, This work has also been published (Kibble 1958). The notation employed in the thesis is summarized in appendix A. Appendix B is devoted to a discussion of consistency conditions on the Lagrangian function. The chapter number is omitted in references to sections or equations, except in the case of cross references between chapters.

This thesis explores the theoretical representation of localised electrons in magnetic systems, using Majorana fermions. A motivation is provided for the Majorana fermion representation, which is then developed and applied as a mean-field theory and in the path-integral formalism to the Ising model in transversal-field (TFIM) in one, two and three dimensions, on an orthonormal lattice. In one dimension the development of domain walls precludes long-range order in discrete systems; this is as free energy savings due to entropy outweigh the energetic cost of a domain wall. An argument due to Peierls exists in 2D which allows the formation of domains of ordered spins amidst a disordered background, however, which may be extended to 3D. The forms of the couplings to the bosons used in the Random Phase Analysis (RPA) are considered and an explanation for the non-existence of the phases calculated in this thesis is discussed, in terms of spare degrees of freedom in the Majorana representation. This thesis contains the first known application of Majorana fermions at the RPA level.

L'effet Hawking prédit, dans un espace-temps décrivant l'effondrement d'une étoile à symétrie sphérique vers un trou noir de Schwarzschild, qu'un observateur statique, situé à l'infini, observera un flux thermal de particules quantiques à la température de Hawking. La première démonstration mathématique de l'effet Hawking pour des champs quantiques libres est due à Bachelot, dont le travail sur les champs de Klein-Gordon a été ensuite étendu aux champs de Dirac, d'abord par Bachelot lui-même, puis par Melnyk. Ces travaux, placés dans le cadre d'une symétrie sphérique, ont été complétés par Häfner, qui donna une démonstration rigoureuse de l'effet Hawking pour des champs de Dirac, autour d'une étoile s'effondrant vers un trou noir de Kerr. Le but de cette thèse est d'étudier l'effet Hawking non plus dans un modèle de champs quantiques libres, où les problèmes posés se ramènent à l'étude d'équations aux dérivées partielles linéaires, mais dans un modèle de champs de Dirac en interaction. L'interaction est supposée à support compact, statique, et localisée à l'extérieur de l'étoile. Nous choisissons de traiter le cas d'un modèle jouet, dans un espace-temps de dimension 1+1, situation à laquelle on peut se ramener, au moins dans le cas libre, en utilisant la symétrie sphérique du problème. Nous étudions le comportement de champs de fermions de Dirac dans différentes situations : d'abord, pour une observable suivant l'effondrement de l'étoile ; puis pour une observable stationnaire ; enfin, pour une interaction dépendante du temps, localisée près de la surface de l'étoile. Dans chacun de ces cas, nous montrons l'existence de l'effet Hawking et donnons l'état limite correspondant. / The Hawking effect predicts that, in a space- time describing the collapse of a spherically symmetric star to a Schwarzschild black hole, a static observer at infinity sees the Unruh state as a thermal state at Hawking temperature. The first mathematical proof of the Hawking effect, in the original setting of Hawking, is due to Bachelot. His work on Klein-Gordon fields has been extended to Dirac fields, in the first place by Bachelot himself, and by Melnyk after that. Those works, placed in the setup of a spherically symmetric star, have been completed by Häfner, who gave a rigorous proof of the Hawking effect for Dirac fields, outside a star collapsing to a Kerr black hole. The aim of this thesis is to study the Hawking effect not for a model of free quantum fields, in which case the problems can be reduced to studies on linear partial differential equations, but for a model of interacting Dirac fields. The interaction will be considered as a static, compactly-supported interaction, living outside the star. We choose to study a toy model in a 1+1 dimensional space-time. Using the fact that the problem is spherically symetric, one can, at least in the free case, reduce the real problem to this toy model. We study the behavior of Dirac fermions fields in various situations : first, for an observable following the star's collapse ; then, for a static observable ; finally, for a time-dependent interaction, fixed close to the star's boundary. In each of those cases, we show the existence of the Hawking Effect and give the corresponding limit state.

Orientador: George Emanuel Avraam Matsas / Banca: Alberto Vasquez Saa / Banca: Daniel Augusto Turolla Vanzella / Banca: Nathan Jacob Berkovits / Banca: Carlos Monken / Resumo: Mesmo tratando a gravidade classicamente, a Teoria Quântica de Campos em Espaços Tempos Curvos (TQCEC) faz previsões impressionantes sobre o comportamento de campos quânticos na presença de campos gravitacionais. Entretanto, ao mesmo tempo em que nos revela efeitos surpreendentes, a TQCEC levanta uma série de questionamentos. O desenvolvimento de uma teoria na interface entre a teoria da relatividade, a mecânica quântica e a teoria da informação poderá não só lançar uma nova luz em tais questões como também nos permitir descobrir novos efeitos de gravitação quântica de baixas energias. Entretanto, os efeitos que a teoria da relatividade causa na teoria da informação quântica são não triviais já no espaço-tempo de Minkowski. Faz-se necessáaria portanto uma análise cuidadosa de tais efeitos já no contexto da relatividade especial. Sendo assim, estudamos primeiro o comportamento das desigualdades de Bell usando férmions de spin 1/2 e fótons quando os detetores que medem spin e polarização, respectivamente, movemse com certa velocidade. Além disso, usamos o limite de Holevo para estudar sistemas de comunicação quando as partes que trocam informação tem um movimento relativo. Como um desenvolvimento natural, estudamos diversos aspectos da teoria da informação quântica no contexto da teoria quântica de campos e, em particular, do efeito Unruh. Tais resultados nos permitiram prever o comportamento de qubits nas vizinhanças de um buraco negro de Schwarzschild / Abstract: Although it treats gravity classically, the Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetimes (QFTCS) makes remarkable predictions about de behavior of quantum fields in the presence of gravitational fields. However, these striking discoveries raises several issues. The development of a theory at the interface between the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics and information theory could not only shed new light on such questions as well as allow us to uncover new low-energy quantum gravity effects. However, relativity affects quantum information theory in a highly non-trivial way already in Minkowski spacetime. Therefore, a careful analysis of these effects in the context of special relativity is needed. For this purpose, we begin investigating how the movement of the spin and polarization detectors influences the Bell inequalities using spin 1/2 fermions and photons, respectively. Then, we use the Holevo bound to investigate quantum communication channels when the parts that trade information have a relative motion. As a natural development, we use quantum field theory and, in particular, the Unruh effect to analyze several aspects of quantum information theory. This enables us to predict the behavior of qubits in the vicinity of a Schwarzschild black hole / Doutor

As propriedades termodinâmicas relacionadas a um gás composto por partículas bosônicas em geometrias esfericamente simétricas são apresentadas ao longo deste trabalho. Utilizando o formalismo proposto por Ishibashi e Kodama, verificou-se que as equações de movimento associadas aos campos escalar e eletromagnético podem ser reduzidas a uma equação tipo Schrödinger. Ao considerarmos algumas soluções esfericamente simétricas observou-se que o espectro de energia associado às partículas é discretizado. Em particular, no estudo das lightspheres, superfícies onde os fótons estão confinados em órbitas fechadas, propomos um mecanismo de quantização para as partículas bosônicas. Estudamos algumas propriedades termodinâmicas e dentro deste tratamento, é apresentada uma expressão para a densidade de energia espectral da radiação emitida. Nossos resultados sugerem que as lightspheres quando termalizadas com o seu ambiente, possuem propriedades termodinâmicas não-usuais. Ao levarmos em consideração a presença da constante cosmológica negativa, constatou-se que além de um espectro de energia discretizado, a geometria adS possui um comportamento confinante, podendo ser interpretada como uma caixa de tamanho conhecido. Considerando um gás de partículas bosônicas confinadas na geometria anti-de Sitter, obtivemos as grandezas termodinâmicas associadas tais como energia interna, entropia e pressão. Para a energia interna observamos um comportamento diferente do usual para o limite de baixas temperaturas. / The thermodynamic properties related to a gas composed of bosonic particles in spherically symmetrical geometries are presented in this work. Using the formalism proposed by Ishibashi and Kodama, we have seen that the equations of motion associated to the scalar and electromagnetic fields can be reduced to a Schrödinger-like equation. For some spherically symmetrical solutions it has been demonstrated that the energy spectrum associated with the particles is discretized. In particular, when we considered lightspheres, surfaces where photons are confined in closed orbits, we propose a quantization procedure for the bosonics particles. In this treatment, it is presented an expression for the spectral energy density of the emmited radiation. Our results suggest that lightspheres thermalized with its environment, have unusual thermodynamical properties. When taken into account the presence of the negative cosmological constant, it has been shown that, besides a discretized energy spectrum, the geometry has a confining behavior and can be interpreted as a finite size box. Considering a gas of bosonic particles confined in the anti-Sitter geometry, we obtained the associated thermodynamics quantities such as internal energy, entropy and pressure. For the internal energy, in the low temperatures limit, we observe a different behavior from the usual one.

Nesta tese, o limite não re1ativistico em teorias quânticas de campos em 2+1 dimensões é discutido1 perturbativamente, através da introdução de um corte intermediário que permite 0 cálculo de.expansão /P/m das amplitudes quânticas. especificando a origem, no espaço dos estados intermediários, de cada uma. das contribuições. Este procedimento é aplicado à teoria 4 e um esquema de redução a nível das amplitudes, que identifica a contribuição do setor de baixas energias com 0 resultado da teoria não re1ativistica, é proposto. Quando aplicado á teoria de Chern-Simons escalar, este procedimento sugere correlações relativísticas para o espalhamento Aharonov-Bohm. / n this thesis, the nonrelativistic limit of quantum field theories in 2 + 1 dimensions is discussed, perturbatively, through the introduction of an intermediate cutoff which generates the /p/m expansion of the quantum amplitudes and specifies the origin of each contribution in the space of the intermediary states. This scheme is applied to the theory 4 and a reduction procedure for the amplitudes that identify the low energy sector contribution with the results of the nonrelativistic theory is proposed. When applied to the scalar Chern-Simons theory, this procedure gives relativistic corrections to the Aharonov- Bohm scattering.

Nesta tese, estudamos a integrabilidade quântica de modelos contínuos relevantes no contexto da quantização da supercorda do tipo IIB em AdS5 x S5, e, conseqüentemente, de interesse para a demonstração e uma melhor compreensão da correspondência AdS/CFT. Para os modelos de Landau-Lifshitz e de Alday-Arutyunov-Frolov, calculamos as amplitudes de espalhamento para três partículas e mostramos a fatorabilidade de suas matrizes S em primeira ordem não-trivial. Propomos também um novo método para a quantização de sistemas integráveis contínuos no exemplo do modelo de Landau-Lifshitz su(1;1). Nosso método fornece uma solução alternativa para o problema do ordenamento operatorial, bem como uma prescrição para a dedução das identidades de traço e do espectro das cargas quânticas conservadas. Ademais, mostramos que, por ser baseado em um processo de regularização e renormalização operatorial, concomitante à construção das extensões auto-adjuntas, a integrabilidade é preservada durante a quantização. / In this thesis, we study the quantum integrability of continuous models which arise from consistent truncations of type IIB superstring theory on AdS5 X S5, and, therefore are relevant for improving our current understanding of the AdS/CFT correspondence. For the Landau-Lifshitz and the Alday-Arutyunov-Frolov models, we compute the three-particle scattering amplitude and show the factorizability of the corresponding S matrices at the first non-trivial order. We also propose a new method for quantizing continuous integrable systems and apply it to the su(1;1) Landau-Lifshitz model. Our method provides an alternative solution to the longstanding operator ordering problem and gives a prescription to obtain the quantum trace identities, and the spectrum for the higher-order local charges. Moreover, since it is based on operator regularization and renormalization, as well as on the construction of the self-adjoint extensions, the integrability is preserved during the quantization process

A discrete formalism for General Relativity was introduced in 1961 by Tulio Regge in the form of a piecewise-linear manifold as an approximation to (pseudo-)Riemannian manifolds. This formalism, known as Regge Calculus, has primarily been used to study vacuum spacetimes as both an approximation for classical General Relativity and as a framework for quantum gravity. However, there has been no consistent effort to include arbitrary non-gravitational sources into Regge Calculus or examine the structural details of how this is done. This manuscript explores the underlying framework of Regge Calculus in an effort elucidate the structural properties of the lattice geometry most useful for incorporating particles and fields. Correspondingly, we first derive the contracted Bianchi identity as a guide towards understanding how particles and fields can be coupled to the lattice so as to automatically ensure conservation of source. In doing so, we derive a Kirchhoff-like conservation principle that identifies the flow of energy and momentum as a flux through the circumcentric dual boundaries. This circuit construction arises naturally from the topological structure suggested by the contracted Bianchi identity. Using the results of the contracted Bianchi identity we explore the generic properties of the local topology in Regge Calculus for arbitrary triangulations and suggest a first-principles definition that is consistent with the inclusion of source. This prescription for extending vacuum Regge Calculus is sufficiently general to be applicable to other approaches to discrete quantum gravity. We discuss how these findings bear on a quantized theory of gravity in which the coupling to source provides a physical interpretation for the approximate invariance principles of the discrete theory. / by Jonathan Ryan McDonald. / Vita. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2009. / Includes bibliography. / Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2009. Mode of access: World Wide Web.

The aim of this work is present the phenomenon denoted entanglement harvesting. We begin by introducing entanglement historically. Following, we go beyond the one particle theory in flat spacetime and introduce Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime, showing two famous consequences: the Unruh effect and the Hawking radiation. Finally, we analyze entanglement harvesting for two Unruh-deWitt detectors. In the fisrt example, we see that there is a \"sudden death\" point of entanglement harvesting when the detectors are near the BTZ black hole event horizon, due to redshift effect and Hawking radiation. Then, we compare the phenomenon for different scenarios, and find out that it is sensitive to the structure of spacetime. Finally, we see how detectors\' parameters affect it and find out that the smoothness of the switching of the detectors\' coupling to the field is extremely relevant. We also see how the parameters can be used to optimize entanglement harvested. / O objetivo desse trabalho é apresentar o fenômeno denotado colheita de emaranhamento. Primeiramente fazemos uma introdução histórica de emaranhamento de estados quânticos. Em seguida, introduzimos a Teoria Quântica de Campos no Espaço-tempo Curvo, como um passo além da teoria quântica de uma partícula no espaço-tempo plano, e demonstramos dois resultados famosos da teoria: o efeito Unruh e a radiação Hawking. Por fim, fazemos uma analise do fenômeno de colheita de emaranhamento para dois detectores Unruh-deWitt. Nosso primeiro exemplo mostra que há um ponto de \"morte súbita\" do fenômeno quando os detectores se aproximam do horizonte de eventos de um buraco negro de BTZ, que é uma consequência do efeito de redshift e da radiação Hawking. Em seguida, comparamos o fenômeno em cenários diferentes, e observamos que a colheita de emaranhamento é sensível à estrutura do espaço-tempo. Por último, analisamos como os parâmetros dos detectores afetam a colheita de emaranhamento, e vemos que a suavidade em que o acoplamento dos detectores com o campo é \"ligado\" e \"desligado\" é extremamente relevante. Também analisamos como podemos usar os parâmetros dos detectores para otimizar a quantidade de emaranhamento colhida.