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most citedAlleviating the cosmological constant problem from particle production

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26 papers

hep-th2026

Inflationary magnetogenesis in Proca electrodynamics with Schwinger particle production

Mattia Dubbini, Orlando Luongo

We investigate inflationary magnetogenesis with massive vector fields, including charged scalar particle production via the Schwinger effect and its backreaction on the background…

gr-qc2026

Causal structure and optical signatures of rotating power law Kalb-Ramond geometry

Hassan Hassanabadi, Orlando Luongo

We investigate a stationary and axisymmetric power law Kalb-Ramond geometry, obtained as a rotating extension of the asymptotically flat static solution. We reconstruct the exact i…

gr-qc2026

Cosmological horizon thermodynamics in Gauss-Bonnet quasi-dilaton Massive Gravity

Sobhan Kazempour, Orlando Luongo, Sabahat +2

We investigate the thermodynamic properties of the cosmological apparent horizon in Gauss-Bonnet quasi-dilaton massive gravity. We derive the modified Friedmann equations and refor…

gr-qc2026

Optical and thermodynamic properties of Kerr-Bertotti-Robinson black holes

Hassan Hassanabadi, Michael R. R. Good, Soroush Zare +2

We investigate the thermodynamic and optical properties of Kerr--Bertotti--Robinson black holes, namely rotating black holes immersed in an external Bertotti--Robinson electromagne…

gr-qc2026

Entanglement generation from gravitationally produced massless vector particles during inflation

Alessio Belfiglio, Mattia Dubbini, Orlando Luongo

We study the gravitational production of spectator massless vector particles in a single-field inflationary scenario, and the related entanglement generation across the Hubble hori…

gr-qc2025

Multipartite entanglement features of primordial non-gaussianities

Alessio Belfiglio, Roberto Franzosi, Orlando Luongo

We discuss some entanglement features associated with cubic non-Gaussian perturbations in single-field inflationary scenarios. We adopt standard momentum-space techniques to show h…

gr-qc2025

Geometric multipartite entanglement from gravitational particle production

Alessio Belfiglio, Roberto Franzosi, Orlando Luongo

We explore novel generation of genuine multipartite entanglement within gravitational particle production processes during inflationary stages. To this end, we focus on perturbativ…

gr-qc2025★ 22 cited

Quantum entanglement in cosmology

Alessio Belfiglio, Orlando Luongo, Stefano Mancini

We discuss recent progress in the study of entanglement within cosmological frameworks, focusing on both momentum and position-space approaches and also reviewing the possibility t…

gr-qc2025

Gravitational dark matter production from fermionic spectator fields during inflation

Alessio Belfiglio, Orlando Luongo

We investigate the gravitational particle production from vacuum for a minimally coupled fermionic spectator field during a single-field inflationary phase. We observe that metric…

gr-qc2025★ 2 cited

Entanglement entropy evolution during gravitational collapse

Alessio Belfiglio, Orlando Luongo, Stefano Mancini +1

We investigate the dynamics of the ground state entanglement entropy for a discretized scalar field propagating within the Oppenheimer-Snyder collapse metric. Starting from a well-…

gr-qc2024★ 11 cited

Comparing geometric and gravitational particle production in Jordan and Einstein frames

Alessio Belfiglio, Orlando Luongo, Tommaso Mengoni

We explore cosmological particle production associated with inflationary fluctuations by comparing gravitational and geometric mechanisms, within a non-minimal Yukawa-like coupling…

gr-qc2024★ 2 cited

How cosmological expansion affects communication between distant quantum systems

Alessio Lapponi, Orlando Luongo, Stefano Mancini

A quantum communication protocol between harmonic oscillator detectors, interacting with a quantum field, is developed in a cosmological expanding background. The aim is to see if…

gr-qc2024★ 14 cited

Horizon entanglement area law from regular black hole thermodynamics

Alessio Belfiglio, S. Mahesh Chandran, Orlando Luongo +1

We investigate the thermodynamics of regular black hole configurations via quantum analogs of entropy and energy -- namely, the entanglement entropy and entanglement energy -- near…

gr-qc2024★ 11 cited

Entanglement entropy in quantum black holes

Alessio Belfiglio, Orlando Luongo, Stefano Mancini +1

We discuss the entanglement entropy for a massive Klein-Gordon field in two Schwarzschild-like quantum black hole spacetimes, also including a nonminimal coupling term with the bac…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Geometric aspects of mixed quantum states inside the Bloch sphere

Paul M. Alsing, Carlo Cafaro, Domenico Felice +1

When studying the geometry of quantum states, it is acknowledged that mixed states can be distinguished by infinitely many metrics. Unfortunately, this freedom causes metric-depend…

gr-qc2023★ 1 cited

Particle production from non-minimal coupling in a symmetry breaking potential transporting vacuum energy

Alessio Belfiglio, Youri Carloni, Orlando Luongo

We propose an inflationary scenario where the inflaton field is non-minimally coupled to spacetime curvature and inflation is driven by a vacuum energy symmetry breaking potential…

gr-qc2023★ 11 cited

Entanglement area law violation from field-curvature coupling

Alessio Belfiglio, Orlando Luongo, Stefano Mancini

We investigate the entanglement entropy of a massive scalar field nonminimally coupled to spacetime curvature, assuming a static, spherically symmetric background. We discretize th…

gr-qc2023

Entanglement entropy for spherically symmetric regular black holes

Orlando Luongo, Stefano Mancini, Paolo Pierosara

The Bardeen and Hayward spacetimes are here considered as standard configurations of spherically symmetric regular black holes. Assuming the thermodynamics of such objects to be an…

quant-ph2023★ 18 cited

Comparing metrics for mixed quantum states: Sjoqvist and Bures

Paul M. Alsing, Carlo Cafaro, Orlando Luongo +3

It is known that there are infinitely many distinguishability metrics for mixed quantum states. This freedom, in turn, leads to metric-dependent interpretations of physically meani…

gr-qc2022★ 26 cited

Inflationary entanglement

Alessio Belfiglio, Orlando Luongo, Stefano Mancini

We investigate the entanglement due to geometric corrections in particle creation during inflation. To do so, we propose a single-field inflationary scenario, nonminimally coupled…

gr-qc2022★ 8 cited

Modeling black hole evaporative mass evolution via radiation from moving mirrors

Michael R. R. Good, Alessio Lapponi, Orlando Luongo +1

We investigate the evaporation of an uncharged and non-rotating black hole (BH) in vacuum, by taking into account the effects given by the shrinking of the horizon area. These incl…

hep-th2022★ 30 cited

Planar Black Holes in Holographic Axion Gravity: Islands, Page Times, and Scrambling Times

Seyed Ali Hosseini Mansoori, Orlando Luongo, Stefano Mancini +3

The present work investigates the entanglement entropies of the Hawking radiations, the Page times, and the scrambling times, for the eternal planar black holes in the holographic…

gr-qc2022★ 45 cited

Alleviating the cosmological constant problem from particle production

Alessio Belfiglio, Roberto Giambò, Orlando Luongo

We explore a toy model mechanism of geometric cancellation, alleviating the (classical) cosmological constant problem. To do so, we assume at primordial times that vacuum energy fu…

gr-qc2022★ 26 cited

Geometric corrections to cosmological entanglement

Alessio Belfiglio, Orlando Luongo, Stefano Mancini

We investigate entanglement production by inhomogeneous perturbations over a homogeneous and isotropic cosmic background, demonstrating that the interplay between quantum and geome…