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This study expands the spontaneous collapse assumptions into the relativistic quantum field theory framework for Dirac fields. By solving Lindblad's master equation using the Keldysh formalism, the effective action is derived, which…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-18 Y. M. P. Gomes

Stability of self-similar solutions for gravitational collapse is an important problem to be investigated from the perspectives of their nature as an attractor, critical phenomena and instability of a naked singularity. In this paper we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Eiji Mitsuda , Akira Tomimatsu

We study the spherically symmetric collapse of a cloud of dust in VCDM, a class of gravitational theories with two local physical degrees of freedom. We find that the collapse corresponds to a particular foliation of the Oppenheimer-Snyder…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-22 Antonio De Felice , Kei-ichi Maeda , Shinji Mukohyama , Masroor C. Pookkillath

Some collapse models proposed that gravitational effects cause the instability of mass distribution superpositions, leading to wave function collapse. In this paper, we utilize the quantum Boltzmann equation (QBE) to analyze the behavior of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Moslem Zarei

It is emphasized that the collapse postulate of standard quantum theory can violate conservation of energy-momentum and there is no indication from where the energy-momentum comes or to where it goes. Likewise, in the Continuous Spontaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-12 Philip Pearle

Nonlinear two-dimensional internal gravity waves (IGWs) in the atmospheres of the Earth and the Sun are studied. The resulting two-dimensional nonlinear equation has the form of a generalized nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with nonlocal…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2024-08-23 Volodymyr M. Lashkin , Oleg K. Cheremnykh

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

We develop an analytic framework to understand fragmentation in turbulent, self-gravitating media. Previously, we showed some properties of turbulence can be predicted with the excursion-set formalism. Here, we generalize to fully…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-07-02 Philip F. Hopkins

Gravitational effects in colloidal suspensions can be easily turned off by matching the density of the solid microparticles with the one of the surrounding fluid. By studying the motion of catalytic microswimmers with tunable buoyant…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-11-09 Virginia Carrasco-Fadanelli , Ivo Buttinoni

Critical collapse is a well-studied subject for a variety of self-gravitating matter. One of the most intensively examined models is that of perfect fluids, which have been used extensively to describe compact objects such as stars, as well…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-10 Jorge V. Rocha , Diogo L. F. G. Silva

We study turbulence in self-gravitating superfluids by performing direct numerical simulations of the 3D Gross-Pitaevskii-Poisson (GPP) equation, which is also a model for dark matter haloes around galaxies. In the absence of self-gravity,…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2025-11-05 Sanjay Shukla

It is argued in the literature that gravity is an emergent phenomenon and is a statistical tendency for a gravitational system to attain the maximal entropy state which maintains the holographic principle. In this paper, we show that…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-08 Qiao-Jun Cao

We study gravitationally collapsing models of pressureless dust, fluids with pressure, and the generalized Chaplygin gas (GCG) shell in (2+1)-dimensional spacetimes. Various collapse scenarios are investigated under a variety of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 R. B. Mann , J. J. Oh

It has been suggested that the nonlinear Schr\"odinger-Newton equation might approximate the coupling of quantum mechanics with gravitation, particularly in the context of the M{\o}ller-Rosenfeld semiclassical theory. Numerical results for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-28 J. R. van Meter

In hybrid classical-quantum theories, the dynamics of the classical system induce the classicality of the quantum system, meaning that such models do not necessarily require a measurement postulate to describe probabilistic measurement…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-28 Zachary Weller-Davies

The dynamical equations describing the evolution of a self-gravitating fluid can be rewritten in the form of a Schrodinger equation coupled to a Poisson equation determining the gravitational potential. This wave-mechanical representation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Peter Coles , Kate Spencer

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 discuss a model describing exactly a thin spherically symmetric shell of matter with zero rest mass. We derive the reduced formulation of this system in which the variables are embeddings, their conjugate momenta, and Dirac observables.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Petr Hajicek , Claus Kiefer

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

We propose a Newtonian semiclassical gravity theory based on the GRW collapse theory with matter density ontology (GRWm), which we term GRWmN. The theory is proposed because, as we show, the standard Newtonian semiclassical gravity theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-15 Maaneli Derakhshani