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We study here the gravitational collapse of a matter cloud with a non-vanishing tangential pressure in the presence of a non-zero cosmological term. Conditions for bounce and singularity formation are derived for the model. It is also shown…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 T. Arun Madhav , Rituparno Goswami , Pankaj S. Joshi

The present work investigates the gravitational collapse of a perfect fluid in $f(R)$ gravity models. For a general $f(R)$ theory, it is shown analytically that a collapse is quite possible. The singularity formed as a result of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-30 Soumya Chakrabarti , Narayan Banerjee

Assuming that Quantum Mechanics is universal and that it can be applied over all scales, then the Universe is allowed to be in a quantum superposition of states, where each of them can correspond to a different space-time geometry. How can…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-27 José Luis Gaona-Reyes , Lucía Menéndez-Pidal , Mir Faizal , Matteo Carlesso

Dynamical reduction models propose a solution to the measurement problem in quantum mechanics: the collapse of the wave function becomes a physical process. We compute the predictions to decaying and Dynamical reduction models propose a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-01 K. Simonov , B. C. Hiesmayr

Using Brownian dynamics simulations, density functional theory, and analytical perturbation theory we study the collapse of a patch of interfacially trapped, micrometer-sized colloidal particles, driven by long-ranged capillary attraction.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2011-09-20 J. Bleibel , S. Dietrich , A. Dominguez , M. Oettel

We examine spherical gravitational collapse of a matter model with vanishing radial pressure and non-zero tangential pressure. It is seen analytically that the collapsing cloud either forms a black hole or disperses depending on values of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Ashutosh Mahajan , Pankaj S. Joshi

Spontaneous collapse models provide a possible, testable solution to the quantum measurement problem. While experiments are providing increasingly stronger bounds on their parameters, a full-fledged relativistic extension is still missing.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-10 Anirudh Gundhi , Lajos Diósi , Matteo Carlesso

We use both numerical and analytical approaches to study the dynamics of the gravitational collapse in the framework of the relativistic theory of gravitation (RTG). We use various equations of state for the collapsing matter and relatively…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-15 K. V. Antipin , A. I. Dubikovsky , P. K. Silaev

This article gives an elementary overview of the end-state of gravitational collapse according to classical general relativity. The focus of discussion is the formation of black holes and naked singularities in various physically reasonable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 T. P. Singh

The quantum-to-classical transition hinges on the nature of wavefunction collapse, which remains a central controversy in foundational physics. Objective collapse theories aim to modify quantum mechanics by introducing a physical,…

General Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Roman V. Li

Based on the modelling of quantum systems with the aid of (classical) non-equilibrium thermodynamics, both the emergence and the collapse of the superposition principle are understood within one and the same framework. Both are shown to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-08-31 Gerhard Groessing , Siegfried Fussy , Johannes Mesa Pascasio , Herbert Schwabl

Several mechanisms have been identified that create dense particle clumps in the solar nebula. The present work is concerned with the gravitational collapse of such clumps, idealized as being spherically symmetric. Calculations using the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-01 Karim Shariff , Jeffrey N. Cuzzi

Collapsing solutions in $f(R)$ gravity are restricted due to junction conditions that demand continuity of the Ricci scalar and its normal derivative across the time-like collapsing hypersurface. These are obtained via the method of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-28 Sandip Chowdhury , Kunal Pal , Kuntal Pal , Tapobrata Sarkar

Recently there has been much progress in the development of stochastic models for state reduction in quantum mechanics. In such models, the collapse of the wave function is a physical process, governed by a nonlinear stochastic differential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-03 Dorje C. Brody , Lane P. Hughston

The Einstein Gauss-Bonnet theory of gravity is the low energy limit of heterotic super-symmetric string theory. This paper deals gravitational collapse of perfect fluid in Einstein Gauss-Bonnet gravity by considering the Lemaitre - Tolman -…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-12 G. Abbas , M. Tahir

When a self-gravitating spherical gas cloud collapses or accretes onto a central mass, the inner region of the cloud develops a density profile $\rho\propto r^{-3/2}$ and the velocity approaches free-fall. We show that in this region,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dong Lai , Peter Goldreich

We propose a model to identify the quantum/classical boundary. The model introduces a spontaneous collapse of state superposition: $\frac{d}{dt} \rho_{ij} =-\frac{i}{\hbar}[H,\rho]_{ij}-\rho_{ij}/\tau_{ij}$. Different from other collapse…

Some experimental implications of the recent progress on wave function collapse are calculated. Exact results are derived for the center-of-mass wave function collapse caused by random scatterings and applied to a range of specific…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 Max Tegmark

In this work spontaneous (non-dynamical) breaking (effective hiding) of the unitary quantum mechanical dynamical symmetry (superposition) is considered. It represents an especial but very interesting case of the general formalism of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Vladan Pankovic , Milan Predojevic

We investigate spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of thick matter shell without radiation in the Einstein gravity with cosmological constant. The orbit of the infalling thick matter is determined by imposing an equation of state…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-10 Shuichi Yokoyama