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We analyse the semi-classical and quantum dynamics of the isotropic Universe in the framework of the Polymer Quantum mechanics, in order to implement a cut-off physics on the initial singularity. We first identify in the Universe cubed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-29 Giovanni Montani , Claudia Mantero , Flavio Bombacigno , Francesco Cianfrani , Gabriele Barca

The spatially flat Friedman-Robertson-Walker (FRW) cosmological model with a massless scalar field in loop quantum cosmology admits a description in terms of a completely solvable model. This has been used to prove that: i) the quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-19 Alejandro Corichi , Edison Montoya

A bouncing scenario of a flat homogeneous and isotropic universe is explored by using the reconstruction technique for the power-law parametrization of the Hubble parameter in a modified gravity theory with higher-order curvature and trace…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-03 J. K. Singh , Harshna Balhara , Kazuharu Bamba , J. Jena

We compute numerically the time evolution of simple semiclassical states describing homogeneous and isotropic spatial geometries in quantum-reduced loop gravity under a deparametrized formulation of the dynamics, in which a reference matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-02 Ilkka Mäkinen

A non-singular bouncing cosmology is generically obtained in loop quantum cosmology due to non-perturbative quantum gravity effects. A similar picture can be achieved in standard general relativity in the presence of a scalar field with a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-17 Yi-Fu Cai , Edward Wilson-Ewing

We present results concerning propagation of the Gaussian state across the cosmological quantum bounce. The reduced phase space quantization of loop quantum cosmology is applied to the Friedman-Robertson-Walker universe with a free massless…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Jakub Mielczarek , Wlodzimierz Piechocki

In this paper we study quantum dynamics of the bouncing cosmological model. We focus on the model of the flat Friedman-Robertson-Walker universe with a free scalar field. The bouncing behavior, which replaces classical singularity, appears…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-12 Jean Pierre Gazeau , Jakub Mielczarek , Wlodzimierz Piechocki

We explore the dynamics of FLRW cosmologies which consist of dark matter, radiation and dark energy with a quadratic equation of state. Standard cosmological singularities arise due to energy conditions which are violated by dark energy,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-19 Molly Burkmar , Marco Bruni

We provide an analytical solution to the quantum dynamics of a flat Friedmann-Lema\^itre- Robertson-Walker model with a massless scalar field in the presence of a small and positive cosmological constant, in the context of Loop Quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-06 Mercedes Martín-Benito , Rita B. Neves

Due to the numerical complexities of studying evolution in an anisotropic quantum spacetime, in comparison to the isotropic models, the physics of loop quantized anisotropic models has remained largely unexplored. In particular, robustness…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-04-14 Peter Diener , Anton Joe , Miguel Megevand , Parampreet Singh

We investigate two simplified non-singular cyclic models with a negative time-varying cosmological constant to represent the non-conventional mechanism of negative cosmological constant expected to address the late-time cosmic acceleration.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-21 Nasr Ahmed , Kazuharu Bamba

Semiclassical states in isotropic loop quantum cosmology are employed to show that the improved dynamics has the correct classical limit. The effective Hamiltonian for the quantum cosmological model with a massless scalar field is thus…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-27 You Ding , Yongge Ma , Jinsong Yang

We contrast two sets of conditions that govern the transition in which classical dynamics emerges from the evolution of a quantum system. The first was derived by considering the trajectories seen by an observer (dubbed the ``strong''…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Benjamin D. Greenbaum , Kurt Jacobs , Bala Sundaram

In loop quantum cosmology the quantum dynamics is well understood. We approximate the full quantum dynamics in the infinite dimensional Hilbert space by projecting it on a finite dimensional submanifold thereof, spanned by suitably chosen…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Victor Taveras

We consider a closed quantum system subject to a stochastic resetting process. The generic expression for the resulting density operator is formulated for arbitrary resetting dynamics, fully characterised by the distribution of times…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Francisco J. Sevilla , Andrea Valdés-Hernández

We examine the nature of the cosmological Big Bounce transition within the loop geometry underlying loop quantum cosmology at classical and quantum levels. Our canonical quantization method is an alternative to the standard loop quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-24 Przemyslaw Malkiewicz , Wlodzimierz Piechocki

In this paper, we model the bounce phase, stability, and the reconstruction of the universe by non-minimal kinetic coupling. In the process, we obtained importance information about the energy density and the matter pressure of the universe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Alireza Amani , A. S. Kubeka , E. Mahichi

I present a streamlined review of how the separate universe approach to cosmological perturbation theory can be used to study the dynamics of long-wavelength scalar perturbations in loop quantum cosmology, and then use it to calculate how…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-03 Edward Wilson-Ewing

We analyze the canonical quantum dynamics of the isotropic Universe in a metric approach by adopting a self-interacting scalar field as relational time. When the potential term is absent we are able to associate the the expanding and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-15 Eleonora Giovannetti , Fabio Maione , Giovanni Montani

We investigate cosmological models with a linear inhomogeneous time-dependent equation of state for the dark energy, coupled with dark matter, leading to a bounce cosmology. Equivalent descriptions in terms of the equation-of-state…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-07 I. Brevik , V. V. Obukhov , A. V. Timoshkin