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Models of gravitational collapse provide important means to test whether non-classical space-time effects motivated for instance by quantum gravity can be realized in generic ways in physically relevant situations. Here, a detailed analysis…

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Quantum effects play an essential role in modern cosmology. Perhaps the most striking example comes from large-scale structures, generally assumed to originate from vacuum quantum fluctuations and stretched by an expansion phase. Inflation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-10-08 Emmanuel Frion

The literature on quantum-gravity-inspired scenarios for the quantization of spacetime has so far focused on particle-physics-like studies. This is partly justified by the present limitations of our understanding of quantum-gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-17 Giovanni Amelino-Camelia , Niccolo' Loret , Gianluca Mandanici , Flavio Mercati

Non-perturbative quantum geometric effects in Loop Quantum Cosmology predict a $\rho^2$ modification to the Friedmann equation at high energies. The quadratic term is negative definite and can lead to generic bounces when the matter energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Parampreet Singh , Kevin Vandersloot , G. V. Vereshchagin

We explore semiclassical stellar collapse scenarios with pressure within the framework of effective loop quantum gravity. The objective of this work is to generalize existent models of semiclassical dust collapse and examine the role of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-30 Luca Cafaro , Lorenzo Cipriani , Francesco Fazzini , Farshid Soltani

Massless scalar fields originating in a quantum vacuum state acquire a scale-invariant spectrum of fluctuations in a matter-dominated contracting universe. We show that these isocurvature fluctuations transfer to a scale-invariant spectrum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-17 Yi-Fu Cai , Robert Brandenberger , Xinmin Zhang

We discuss effects of loss of coherence in low energy quantum systems caused by or related to gravitation, referred to as gravitational decoherence. These effects, resulting from random metric fluctuations, for instance, promise to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-26 Angelo Bassi , André Großardt , Hendrik Ulbricht

Penrose's singularity theorem implies that if a trapped region forms in a gravitational collapse, then a singularity must form as well within such region. However, it is widely expected that singularities should be generically avoided by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-02 Raúl Carballo-Rubio , Francesco Di Filippo , Stefano Liberati , Matt Visser

We investigate critical phenomena during the gravitational collapse of a massive scalar field under two distinct semi-classical loop quantum gravity (LQG) approaches within spherical symmetry. Numerical simulations reveal that the massive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-24 Li-Jie Xin , Xiangdong Zhang

We investigate cosmological models described by a scalar field with an exponential potential, and apply the stochastic formalism, which allows us to study how quantum field fluctuations give rise to stochastic noise. This modifies the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-24 Tays Miranda , Emmanuel Frion , David Wands

We consider a dynamical system of phantom scalar field under exponential potential in background of loop quantum cosmology. In our analysis, there is neither stable node nor repeller unstable node but only two saddle points, hence no Big…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Daris Samart , Burin Gumjudpai

The closed, k=1, FRW model coupled to a massless scalar field is investigated in the framework of loop quantum cosmology using analytical and numerical methods. As in the k=0 case, the scalar field can be again used as emergent time to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Abhay Ashtekar , Tomasz Pawlowski , Parampreet Singh , Kevin Vandersloot

After a brief introduction, basic ideas of the quantum Riemannian geometry underlying loop quantum gravity are summarized. To illustrate physical ramifications of quantum geometry, the framework is then applied to homogeneous isotropic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Abhay Ashtekar

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

Everybody knows what the classical black holes are. In short, this is a spacetime region beyond the so-called event horizon. The notion of the event horizon is mathematically well defined. The situation with a definition of quantum black…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Victor Berezin

The concept of a horizon known from general relativity describes the loss of causal connection and can be applied to non-gravitational scenarios such as out-of-equilibrium condensed-matter systems in the laboratory. This analogy facilitates…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-21 Ralf Schützhold

In this paper, we study the quantum geometric effects near the locations where classical black hole horizons used to appear in Einstein's classical theory, within the framework of an improved dynamic approach, in which the internal region…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-01 Wen-Cong Gan , Xiao-Mei Kuang , Zhen-Hao Yang , Yungui Gong , Anzhong Wang , Bin Wang

We study quantum cosmology with conformal matter comprising a perfect radiation fluid and a number of conformally coupled scalar fields. Focusing initially on the collective coordinates (minisuperspace) associated with homogeneous,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-07-07 Steffen Gielen , Neil Turok

In this paper, we present the results on the gravitational collapse of charged massless scalar field in asymptotically flat spacetime with a perfectly reflecting wall. Differing from previous works, we study the system in the double null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-02-02 Rong-Gen Cai , Run-Qiu Yang

We investigate the structure of the gravitational field generated by a massless particle moving on the horizon of an arbitrary (stationary) black hole. This is done by employing the generalized Kerr-Schild class where we take the null…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Herbert Balasin