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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…
Mapping 1+1-dimensional black hole thermodynamics to finite volume effects
Jean Alexandre, Drew Backhouse, Eleni-Alexandra Kontou +2
Both black hole thermodynamics and finite volume effects in quantum field theory violate the null energy condition. Motivated by this, we compare thermodynamic features between two…
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…
The double smeared null energy condition
Jackson R. Fliss, Ben Freivogel, Eleni-Alexandra Kontou
The null energy condition (NEC), an important assumption of the Penrose singularity theorem, is violated by quantum fields. The natural generalization of the NEC in quantum field t…
Effects on the CMB from Compactification Before Inflation
Eleni-Alexandra Kontou, Jose J. Blanco-Pillado, Mark P. Hertzberg +1
Many theories beyond the Standard Model include extra dimensions, though these have yet to be directly observed. In this work we consider the possibility of a compactification mech…