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We formulate the lattice QCD simulation with background classical gravitational fields. This formulation enables us to study nonperturbative aspects of quantum phenomena in curved spacetimes from the first principles. As the first…

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Predictions from early universe cosmology typically concern primordial perturbations generated during epochs where effects arising from the quantum nature of gravity may be important; quantum vacuum fluctuations being stretched to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-09 Kratika Mazde , Lisa Mickel , Patrick Peter

The loop quantum cosmological model from ADM Hamiltonian is studied in this paper. We consider the spatially flat homogeneous FRW model. It turns out that the modified Friedmann equation keeps the same form as the APS LQC model. However,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-12-27 You Ding , Xiangdong Zhang

We analyze the big bounce transition of the quantum FRW model in the setting of the nonstandard loop quantum cosmology (LQC). Elementary observables are used to quantize composite observables. The spectrum of the energy density operator is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-28 Przemyslaw Malkiewicz , Wlodzimierz Piechocki

Quantum gravity, as a fundamental theory of space-time, is expected to reveal how the universe may have started, perhaps during or before an inflationary epoch. It may then leave a potentially observable (but probably minuscule) trace in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-17 Martin Bojowald

The theory of gravitationally induced adiabatic particle production offers an alternative approach to exploring the accelerating expansion of the universe. However, existing models generally lack a well-defined field-action formulation.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-10 Souvik Pramanik

In this PhD thesis, we introduced a new strategy to investigate the kinematical and physical predictions of self dual Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG) and by-passed the old problem of implementing quantum mechanically the so called reality…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-24 Jibril Ben Achour

We develop a Gauss-Bonnet extension of Loop Quantum Cosmology, by introducing holonomy corrections in modified $F(\mathcal{G})$ theories of gravity. Within the context of our formalism, we provide a perturbative expansion in the critical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-16 J. Haro , A. N. Makarenko , A. N. Myagky , S. D. Odintsov , V. K. Oikonomou

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

In this study, we explore the pre-inflationary dynamics of the universe using a noncommutative extension of the mLQC-I framework. By incorporating a scalar field potential, we show that key features of Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC), such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-13 Abolhassan Mohammadi

During the inflationary phase of the early universe, quantum fluctuations in the vacuum generate particles as they stretch beyond the Hubble length. These fluctuations are thought to result in the density fluctuations and gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jeremy S. Heyl

It is known that in loop quantum cosmology (LQC) the universe avoids the singularity by a bounce when the matter density approaches the critical density $\rho_c$ (the order of Planck density). After incorporating the inverse volume…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-03-14 Hua-Hui Xiong , Jian-Yang Zhu

We investigate the gravitational production of a scalar field $\chi$ with a mass exceeding the Hubble scale during inflation $m_\chi \gtrsim H_I$, employing both analytical and numerical approaches. We demonstrate that the steepest descent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-24 Davide Racco , Sarunas Verner , Wei Xue

Measurement-based quantum computation (MBQC) is a protocol for quantum computation that represents a model distinct from the circuit-based approach. MBQC has been proposed not only for qubits but also for qudits, continuous-variable (CV)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Genji Fujii

The era of precision cosmology has allowed us to accurately determine many important cosmological parameters, in particular via the CMB. Confronting Loop Quantum Cosmology with these observations provides us with a powerful test of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-06 Ivan Agullo , Abhay Ashtekar , William Nelson

The production of quantum field excitations or particles in cosmological spacetimes is a hallmark prediction of curved quantum field theory. The generation of cosmological perturbations from quantum fluctuations in the early universe…

We consider the cosmological production of fermionic dark matter during inflation and a post-inflationary radiation dominated era. This fermion \emph{only interacts gravitationally}, has a mass $m$ much smaller than the Hubble scale during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-23 Nathan Herring , Daniel Boyanovsky

Qualitative dynamics of three different loop quantizations of spatially flat isotropic and homogeneous models is studied using effective spacetime description of the underlying quantum geometry. These include the standard loop quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-03 Bao-Fei Li , Parampreet Singh , Anzhong Wang

In the matter bounce scenario, a dust-dominated contracting space-time generates scale-invariant perturbations that, assuming a nonsingular bouncing cosmology, propagate to the expanding branch and set appropriate initial conditions for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 Edward Wilson-Ewing

In this paper, we study cosmological perturbations in a modified theory of loop quantum cosmologies, the so-called mLQC-I model. Our purposes are two-fold: First, using a method developed by Birrell and Davies, we identify an initial state…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-17 Rui Pan , Jamal Saeed , Anzhong Wang