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The evolution of the centre-of-mass wave-function for a mesoscopic particle according to the Schr\"odinger-Newton equation can be approximated by a harmonic potential, if the wave-function is narrow compared to the size of the particle. It…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-02 André Großardt

Hawking and Turok have recently published a solution to the WKB "wave-function for the universe" which they claim leads in a natural way to an open universe as the end point of the evolution for a universe dominated by a scalar field. They…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Unruh

We consider a quantum cosmology with a massless background scalar field $\pb$ and adopt a wave packet as the wave function. This wave packet is a superposition of the WKB form wave functions, each of which has a definite momentum of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Yoshiaki Ohkuwa , Tetsuro Kitazoe

The Wheeler-DeWitt equation for the induced gravity theory is constructed in the minisuperspace approximation, and then solved using the WKB method under three types of boundary condition proposed respectively by Hartle & Hawking (``no…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Zong-Hong Zhu , Li Cao

We propose a new method to investigate signatures of a quantum gravity phase in the primordial state of cosmological perturbations. We formulate and study a quantum model of a perturbed Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker universe beyond a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-29 Herve Bergeron , Przemyslaw Malkiewicz , Patrick Peter

The conditions for observation of the particle coordinates, required by logic of the Special Relativity and filtering the quantum field effects, are described. A general relation between the corresponding density of probability and the wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-03 V. F. Krotov

There exists a simple relationship between a quantum-mechanical bound-state wave function and that of nearby scattering states, when the scattering energy is extrapolated to that of the bound state. This relationship is demonstrated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Goeran Faeldt , Colin Wilkin

Taking into account the global one-dimensionality conjecture recently proposed by the author, the Cauchy-like analytical wave functional of the Wheeler-DeWitt theory is derived. The crucial point of the integration strategy is canceling of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-11 Lukasz Andrzej Glinka

The field-theoretic wavefunction has received renewed attention with the goal of better understanding observables at the boundary of de Sitter spacetime and studying the interior of Minkowski or general FLRW spacetime. Understanding the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-04-22 Mang Hei Gordon Lee

When the scale factor of expansion of the universe is written as $ a(t)\equiv Ae^{\alpha(t)}$, with $A$ as some real constant and $\alpha(t)$ a real function, the gravitational action $I_G$ appears in the same form as the matter action…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-30 Moncy Vilavinal John

In this paper we will argue that the superposition of waves can be calculated and taught in a simple way. We show, using the Gauss's method to sum an arithmetic sequence, how we can construct the superposition of waves - with different…

Physical properties of the quantum gravitational vacuum state are explored by solving a lattice version of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. The constraint of diffeomorphism invariance is strong enough to uniquely determine the structure of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-12 Herbert W. Hamber , Reiko Toriumi , Ruth M. Williams

It is shown that evolution of an open quantum system can be exactly described in terms of wave function which obeys Schrodinger equation with randomly varying parameters whose statistics is universally determined by separate dynamics of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuriy E. Kuzovlev

We study some gravitational instanton solutions that offer a natural realization of the spontaneous creation of inflationary universes in the brane world context in string theory. Decoherence due to couplings of higher (perturbative) modes…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Hassan Firouzjahi , Saswat Sarangi , S. -H. Henry Tye

The quasi-Heisenberg picture of minisuperspace model is considered. The The quasi-Heisenberg picture of minisuperspace model is considered. The suggested scheme consists in quantizing of the equation of motion and interprets all observables…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. L. Cherkas , V. L. Kalashnikov

The wavefunction for the multiparticle Schr\"odinger equation is a function of many variables and satisfies an antisymmetry condition, so it is natural to approximate it as a sum of Slater determinants. Many current methods do so, but they…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gregory Beylkin , Martin J. Mohlenkamp , Fernando Pérez

Relations between the Friedmann observables of the expanding Universe and the Dirac observables in the generalized Hamiltonian approach are established for the Friedmann cosmological model of the Universe with the field excitations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. A. Gogilidze , A. M. Khvedelidze , V. V. Papoyan , Yu. G. Palii , V. N. Pervushin

The universal power law for the spectrum of one-dimensional breaking Riemann waves is justified for the simple wave equation. The spectrum of spatial amplitudes at the breaking time $t = t_b$ has an asymptotic decay of $k^{-4/3}$, with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-10-22 Dmitry Pelinovsky , Efim Pelinovsky , Elena Kartashova , Tatjana Talipova , Ayrat Giniyatullin

In this paper we skim the true phenomenological requirements behind the concept of inflationary squeezing. We argue that all that is required is that at horizon re-entry the fluctuations form standing waves with the correct temporal phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-15 Giulia Gubitosi , Joao Magueijo

The low frequency part of the gravitational wave spectrum generated by local physics, such as a phase transition or parametric resonance, is largely fixed by causality, offering a clean window into the early Universe. In this work, this low…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-17 Anson Hook , Gustavo Marques-Tavares , Davide Racco