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The understanding of time and dynamics can be elucidated by examining the concept of entanglement in quantum theory. This particular perspective on time is referred to as the timeless approach, which posits that the universe exists in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-07 H. Hadi , F. Darabi , K. Atazadeh

A complete theoretical treatment in many problems relevant to physics, chemistry, and biology requires considering the action of the environment over the system of interest. Usually the environment involves a relatively large number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-03 A. S. Sanz , F. Borondo

We argue that (1) our perception of time through change and (2) the gap between reality and our observation of it are at the heart of both quantum mechanics and the dynamical mechanism of physical systems. We suggest that the origin of…

General Physics · Physics 2014-07-15 Michael York

We analyze the issue of dynamical evolution and time in quantum cosmology. We emphasize the problem of choice of phase space variables that can play the role of a time parameter in such a way that for expectation values of quantum operators…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-05 Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik , Jeinny Nallely Perez Rodriguez , Tereza Vardanyan

We investigate the cosmology of a class of model with noncanonical scalar field and matter in an anisotropy background. We find fixed points and their stability which constraints equation of state parameter for the matter. This is done…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-09 Sukanta Panda , Manabendra Sharma

This paper is a generalization of earlier papers [Nucl. Phys. B 884, 344 (2014) (arXiv:1312.2759) and JHEP 6, 63 (2015) (arXiv:1401.2488)]. We generalize the idea of quantum clock time to quantum spacetime reference frame via physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-20 M. J. Luo

We present a derivation of the structure and dynamics of a ticking clock by showing that for finite systems a single natural principle serves to distinguish what we understand as ticking clocks from time-keeping systems in general. As a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-06 Ralph Silva , Nuriya Nurgalieva , Henrik Wilming

Quantum theory and relativity offer different conceptions of time. To explore the conflict between them, we study a quantum version of the light-clock commonly used to illustrate relativistic time dilation. This semiclassical model combines…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Maximilian P. E. Lock , Ivette Fuentes

We find a Friedmann model with appropriate matter/energy density such that the solution of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation exactly corresponds to the classical evolution. The well-known problems in quantum cosmology disappear in the resulting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-21 Moncy V. John

We study anisotropic Bianchi-I cosmology, incorporating quantum gravitational corrections into the Einstein equation through the scale-dependent Newton coupling and cosmological term, as determined by the flow equation of the effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-03 Chiang-Mei Chen , Akihiro Ishibashi , Rituparna Mandal , Nobuyoshi Ohta

Our review is devoted to three promising research lines in quantum cosmology and the physics of the early universe. The nonperturbative renormalization programme is making encouraging progress that we here assess from the point of view of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Giampiero Esposito

We consider a Bianchi type III axisymmetric geometry in the presence of an electromagnetic field. A first result at the classical level is that the symmetry of the geometry need not be applied on the electromagnetic tensor $F_{\mu\nu}$; the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-04 A. Karagiorgos , T. Pailas , N. Dimakis , Petros A. Terzis , T. Christodoulakis

The dynamics and evolution of Bianchi type I space-times is considered in the framework of the four-dimensional truncation of a reduced theory obtained from the N=2,D=5 supergravity. The general solution of the gravitational field equations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Chiang-Mei Chen , T. Harko , M. K. Mak

There are a number of problematic features within the current treatment of time in physical theories, including the "timelessness" of the Universe as encapsulated by the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. This paper considers one particular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 K. L. H. Bryan , A. J. M. Medved

The quantum cosmological version of a nonsingular Universe presented by Mukhanov and Brandenberger in the early nineties has been developed and the Hamilton Jacobi equation has been found under semiclassical (WKB) approximation. It has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-01-11 Abhik Kumar Sanyal

This paper gives an elementary introduction to some of the conceptual problems of quantum cosmology. Contents: 1. Why quantum cosmology? 2. Time in quantum gravity 3.Decoherence and the recovery of the Schrodinger equation 4. The direction…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 C. Kiefer

A quantum clock cannot be modeled as a point mass moving along a single geodesic if it is in a state with nonzero position fluctuations. Instead, it is an extended object subject to tidal forces and a superposition of time dilations at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Joseph Balsells , Martin Bojowald

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

Building upon our recently established correspondence between quantum cosmology and the hydrogen atom [1], we investigate the specific sector of a negative cosmological constant ($\Lambda < 0$) in a flat FLRW universe with dust. While the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-29 Dipayan Mukherjee , Harkirat Singh Sahota , S. Shankaranarayanan

Quantum cosmology based on the Wheeler De Witt equation represents a simple way to implement plausible quantum effects in a gravitational setup. In its minisuperspace version wherein one restricts attention to FLRW metrics with a single…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-05 Patrick Peter