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How negative can null energy be in large N CFTs?
Jackson R. Fliss, Ben Freivogel, Eleni-Alexandra Kontou +1
Smeared null energy has been shown to be bounded from below for free minimally coupled quantum field theories. This is not the case for conformally coupled free bosonic theories wh…
Non-minimal coupling, negative null energy, and effective field theory
Jackson R. Fliss, Ben Freivogel, Eleni-Alexandra Kontou +1
The non-minimal coupling of scalar fields to gravity has been claimed to violate energy conditions, leading to exotic phenomena such as traversable wormholes, even in classical the…
A generalization of the Hawking black hole area theorem
Eleni-Alexandra Kontou, Veronica Sacchi
Hawking's black hole area theorem was proven using the null energy condition (NEC), a pointwise condition violated by quantum fields. The violation of the NEC is usually cited as t…
Quantum inequality in spacetimes with small curvature
Eleni-Alexandra Kontou, Ken D. Olum
Quantum inequalities bound the extent to which weighted time averages of the renormalized energy density of a quantum field can be negative. They have mostly been proved in flat sp…
Quantum inequality for a scalar field with a background potential
Eleni-Alexandra Kontou, Ken D. Olum
Quantum inequalities are bounds on negative time-averages of the energy density of a quantum field. They can be used to rule out exotic spacetimes in general relativity. We study q…