Aspects of gravity in quantum field theory

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" Aspects of gravity in quantum field theory "
Yang, Ting-Cheng

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Record Number	:	831211
Doc. No	:	TLets629057
Main Entry	:	Yang, Ting-Cheng
Title & Author	:	Aspects of gravity in quantum field theory\ Yang, Ting-Cheng
College	:	University of Sussex
Date	:	2014
student score	:	2014
Degree	:	Thesis (Ph.D.)
Abstract	:	This thesis studies three aspects of gravity in quantum field theory. First quantum gravity effects are investigated using effective field theory techniques. In particular, we consider quantum gravity effects in grand unified theory and study their effects on the unification of the masses in such models. We find that the fermion masses unification conditions receive a sizeable correction from the quantum gravitational effects and one thus cannot predict the high energy unification only by the extrapolation from low energy physics without the understanding of gravitational effect in high energy. Secondly we study quantum field theory in curved spacetime in order to understand further about some of the properties of gravity. Keeping gravity as background field we discuss modified gravity theories in different set of parameters called frames; they are the Jordan frame and the Einstein frame respectively. We show how to map gravitational theories at the quantum field theoretical level. The key observation is that there is a non-trivial Jacobian. It can be interpreted as boundary term. Finally we investigate a new canonical quantisation paradigm. In that framework, quantum gravity is power counting renormalisable. Furthermore, the theory is unitary and the problem of time is solved. We use this framework to calculate the solution for the quantum wave function and the semiclassical Hamilton-Jacob function. We study the Hawking-Bekenstein entropy in the spherical symmetric mini-superspace for Schwarzschild black hole, and find that it can be produced naturally from first principles. Importantly it is accompanied naturally by non-thermal quantum correction terms which is generally believed to restore the information loss.
Subject	:	QC0170 Atomic physics. Constitution and properties of matter Including molecular physics ; relativity ; quantum theory ; and solid state physics
Added Entry	:	University of Sussex