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Using a new approach to the analysis of false vacuum decay based on the so-called tunneling potential, we develop a general method to find scalar potentials with a false vacuum with exactly solvable decay at the semi-classical level,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-15 J. R. Espinosa , J. -F. Fortin , J. Huertas

We propose that the Universe was created from "Nothing" with a relatively small particles number and it very quick relaxed to quasiequilibrium state at the Planck parameters. The classic cosmological solution for this Universe, with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 V. Burdyuzha , Yu. Ponomarev , O. Lalaculich , G. Vereshkov

Quantum fluctuations of the metric provide a decay mechanism for black holes, through a transition to a white hole geometry. Old perplexing results by Ambrus and H\'aj\'i\v{c}ek and more recent results by Barcel\'o, Carballo-Rubio and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-26 Marios Christodoulou , Fabio D'Ambrosio

In the present work, we study the birth of a homogeneous and isotropic Friedmann Lemaitre Robertson Walker (FLRW) cosmological model, considering Horava Lifshitz (HL) as the gravitational theory. The matter content of the model is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-16 G. Oliveira-Neto , A. Oliveira Castro Junior , G. A. Monerat

We provide a quantum picture for the emergence of a bouncing cosmology, according to the idea that a semiclassical behavior of the Universe towards the singularity is not available in many relevant Minisuperspace models. In particular, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-07 Eleonora Giovannetti , Giovanni Montani

We consider the quantum creation of a closed universe within the Euclidean path-integral formalism. An analytical expression for the tunneling probability is derived, including both the exponential suppression and the exact Gaussian…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-18 L. Salasnich

A free scalar field minimally coupled to gravity model is quantized and the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in minisuperspace is solved analytically, exhibiting positive and negative frequency modes. The analysis is performed for positive, negative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Colistete , J. C. Fabris , N. Pinto-Neto

I describe a class of oscillating bounce solutions to the Euclidean field equations for gravity coupled to a scalar field theory with multiple vacua. I discuss their implications for vacuum tunneling transitions and for elucidating the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-11 Erick J. Weinberg

A new ''twice loose shoe'' method in the Wheeler-DeWitt equation of the universe wave function on the cosmic scale factor a and a scalar field $\phi$ is suggested in this letter. We analysis the both affects come from the tunneling effect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-17 De-Hai Zhang

The evolution of the closed Friedmann Universe with a packet of short scalar waves is considered with the help of the Wheeler--DeWitt equation. The packet ensures conservation of homogeneity and isotropy of the metric on average. It is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 V. Ts. Gurovich , H. -J. Schmidt , I. V. Tokareva

We use analytic estimates and numerical simulations to explore the stochastic approach to vacuum decay. According to this approach, the time derivative of a scalar field, which is in a local vacuum state, develops a large fluctuation and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-12-11 Jose J. Blanco-Pillado , Heling Deng , Alexander Vilenkin

In light of the recent swampland conjectures, we explore quantum cosmology and eternal inflation beyond the slow roll regime. We consider a model of a closed universe with a scalar field $\phi$ in the framework of tunneling approach to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-19 Georgios Fanaras , Alexander Vilenkin

We consider the classical Friedmann-Robertson-Walker solutions that describe a universe undergoing a transition from an accelerating expansion phase in the past to an eternal decelerating expansion phase in the future, driven by a scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-07-15 Alek Bedroya , Qianshu Lu , Paul Steinhardt

Quantum computers are a promising candidate to radically expand computational science through increased computing power and more effective algorithms. In particular quantum computing could have a tremendous impact in the field of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-20 Charles D. Kocher , Michael McGuigan

We wish to demonstrate how the presence of a dynamic cosmological parameter, plus a model of the universe as a quantum computer can be combined to give us a picture of early universe inflationary physics which is quite non linear, with a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-11-10 A. W. Beckwith

Quantum cosmology of the Friedmann-Lema\^{i}tre-Robertson-Walker model with cosmological constant in the Ho$\check{\rm r}$ava-Lifshitz type gravity is studied in the phase space by means of the Wigner function. The modification of the usual…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-11-05 Ruben Cordero , Hugo Garcia-Compean , Francisco J. Turrubiates

In this work, surface diffusion is studied with a different perspective by showing how the corresponding open dynamics is transformed when passing, in a continuous and smooth way, from a pure quantum regime to a full classical regime; the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-02 E. E. Torres-Miyares , S. Miret-Artés

In this work we study the birth of Friedmann-Lema\^{\i}tre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) models with zero ($k=0$) and negative ($k=-1$) curvatures of the spatial sections. The material content of the models is composed of a radiation perfect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-13 G. Oliveira-Neto , D. L. Canedo , G. A. Monerat

In this paper we study the problem of neutral electro-weak interactions in a de Sitter geometry. We develop the formalism of reduction for the Proca field with the help of the solutions for the interacting fields and by using perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-27 Diana Dumitrele , Mihaela-Andreea Băloi , Cosmin Crucean

We have recently introduced a discrete model of Lorentzian quantum gravity, given as a regularized non-perturbative state sum over simplicial Lorentzian space-times, each possessing a unique Wick rotation to Euclidean signature. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Ambjorn , J. Jurkiewicz , R. Loll
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