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In this work we present the cosmological dynamics of interacting dark energy models in the framework of particle creation mechanism. The particle creation mechanism presented here describes the true non equilibrium thermodynamics of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-07 Sujay Kr. Biswas , Wompherdeiki Khyllep , Jibitesh Dutta , Subenoy Chakraborty

Loop Quantum Gravity is a background independent, nonperturbative approach to the quantization of General Relativity. Its application to models of interest in cosmology and astrophysics, known as Loop Quantum Cosmology, has led to new and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-27 Guillermo A. Mena Marugan

The classical and quantum models of the Friedmann universe originally filled with a scalar field and radiation have been studied. The radiation has been used to specify a reference frame that makes it possible to remove ambiguities in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Kuzmichev

Wormhole and time machine are very interesting objects in general relativity. However, they need exotic matters which are impossible in classical level to support them. But if we introduce the quantum effects of gravity into the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-30 Li-Fang Li , Jian-Yang Zhu

In a previous paper, we have developed a general theory of thermodynamic limits. We apply it here to three different Coulomb quantum systems, for which we prove the convergence of the free energy per unit volume. The first system is the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-12-21 Christian Hainzl , Mathieu Lewin , Jan Philip Solovej

In this work, we review the results of Refs [1]-[5] dedicated to the description of the early Universe cosmology induced by quantum and thermal effects in superstring theories. The present evolution of the Universe is described very…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-01-05 F. Bourliot , J. Estes , C. Kounnas , H. Partouche

The properties of the quantum universe on extremely small spacetime scales are studied in the semi-classical approach to the well-defined quantum model. It is shown that near the initial cosmological singularity point quantum gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-30 V. E. Kuzmichev , V. V. Kuzmichev

Loop quantum cosmology predicts that quantum gravity effects resolve the big-bang singularity and replace it by a cosmic bounce. Furthermore, loop quantum cosmology can also modify the form of primordial cosmological perturbations, for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-28 Edward Wilson-Ewing

Loop quantum cosmology is a symmetry-reduced application of loop quantum gravity. The theory predicts a bounce for the universe at the Planck scale and resolves the singularity of standard cosmology. The dynamics is also governed by an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-27 Abolhassan Mohammadi

The laws of thermodynamics in the expanding universe are formulated within the quasi-metric framework. Since the quasi-metric cosmic expansion does not directly influence momenta of material particles, so that the expansion directly cools…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-14 Dag Østvang

We study the dynamics and predictions of a new emergent-universe model recently derived within Quantum Reduced Loop Gravity and based on the so-called statistical regularization scheme. These effective geometries show a dynamical transition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-24 Javier Olmedo , Emanuele Alesci

Loop quantum cosmology (LQC) predicts a nonsingular evolution of the universe through a bounce in the high energy region. But LQC has an ambiguity about the quantization scheme. Recently, the authors in [Phys. Rev. D 77, 124008 (2008)]…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-18 Li-Fang Li , Jian-Yang Zhu

In this paper, we investigate the thermodynamic aspects of quadratic gravity in a $D$-dimensional Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) universe. First, we derive the field equations and the effective energy-momentum tensor for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-17 Navid Safarzadeh Ilkhchi , Amin Rezaei Akbarieh , Yaghoub Heydarzade

We investigate an asymptotically spatially flat Robertson-Walker spacetime from two different perspectives. First, using von Neumann entropy, we evaluate the entanglement generation due to the encoded information in spacetime. Then, we work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-21 Mehrnoosh Farahmand , Hosein Mohammadzadeh , Hossein Mehri-Dehnavi

This introductory review is addressed to beginning researchers. Some of the distinguishing features of loop quantum gravity are illustrated through loop quantum cosmology of FRW models. In particular, these examples illustrate: i) how…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-11 Abhay Ashtekar

We investigate the thermodynamical properties of quantum fields in curved spacetime. Our approach is to consider quantum fields in curved spacetime as a quantum system undergoing an out-of-equilibrium transformation. The non-equilibrium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-14 Nana Liu , John Goold , Ivette Fuentes , Vlatko Vedral , Kavan Modi , David Edward Bruschi

The choice of the regularization scheme in Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC) is crucial for the predicted phenomenology. We outline how the improved scheme can be naturally realized in Quantum Reduced Loop Gravity, describing the Universe as an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-11 Emanuele Alesci , Francesco Cianfrani

One of the questions in the cosmology courses is the cooling mechanism of cosmic fluid during it expansion according to classical concepts of the thermodynamics. In this short pedagogical paper, we quote the questions and give a natural…

Physics Education · Physics 2007-05-23 Sohrab Rahvar

In quantum cosmology, one applies quantum physics to the whole universe. While no unique version and no completely well-defined theory is available yet, the framework gives rise to interesting conceptual, mathematical and physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-21 Martin Bojowald

We discuss the effect of `Rindler like' transformation in superspace on the WKB wavefunction in cosmology. In the transformed frame we find the density matrix of the WKB wavefunction is mixed, and this is the sign of a thermal system. This…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-28 Michael Osei , Arundhati Dasgupta