✎ QFT in Curved Spacetime [The Physics Travel Guide]

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====== QFT in Curved Spacetime ======

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Since in general relativity the curvature corresponds to the gravitational field, QFT in curved spacetime corresponds to a normal QFT with an external source (=the gravitational field).

For a curvature that depends on the time, we are dealing with a time varying source that can, for example, produce particles. A proper analogy is a driven harmonic oscillator.

It is important to note that QFT in curved spacetime is not quantum gravity. In a theory of quantum gravity we would take the backreaction of quantum effects on the spactime into account. In contrast, in curved spacetime QFT the curved spacetime is merely a background structure, i.e. an external source and not treated quantum mechanically.

* The standard reference is Quantum Fields in Curved Space by N.D. Birrell, P.C.W. Davies
 
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The motto in this section is: //the higher the level of abstraction, the better//.
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