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Inhomogeneous quantum cosmology is modeled as a dynamical system of discrete patches, whose interacting many-body equations can be mapped to a non-linear minisuperspace equation by methods analogous to Bose-Einstein condensation.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-12-18 Martin Bojowald , Alexander L. Chinchilli , Christine C. Dantas , Matthew Jaffe , David Simpson

Modification to the behavior of geometrical density at short scales is a key result of loop quantum cosmology, responsible for an interesting phenomenology in the very early universe. We demonstrate the way matter with arbitrary scale…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Parampreet Singh

Based on an observation that the basic mode of a common microwave waveguide is a solution to the Klein-Gordon equation, quantum mechanics is modeled as the wave-function propagated inside a waveguide. The guide width is determined by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Roald Ekholdt

Each approach to the quantum-gravity problem originates from expertise in one or another area of theoretical physics. The particle-physics perspective encourages one to attempt to reproduce in quantum gravity as much as possible of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Giovanni Amelino-Camelia

Loop quantum cosmology is an application of recent developments for a non-perturbative and background independent quantization of gravity to a cosmological setting. Characteristic properties of the quantization such as discreteness of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Martin Bojowald

The problem of finding the quantum theory of the gravitational field, and thus understanding what is quantum spacetime, is still open. One of the most active of the current approaches is loop quantum gravity. Loop quantum gravity is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-19 Carlo Rovelli

We apply a type of background independent "polymer" quantization to a free scalar field in a flat spacetime. Using semi-classical states, we find an effective wave equation that is both nonlinear and Lorentz invariance violating. We solve…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-30 Golam Mortuza Hossain , Viqar Husain , Sanjeev S. Seahra

Quantum Reduced Loop Gravity is a promising framework for linking Loop Quantum Gravity and the effective semiclassical dynamics of Loop Quantum Cosmology. We review its basic achievements and its main perspectives, outlining how it provides…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-03 Emanuele Alesci , Francesco Cianfrani

This dissertation examines the impact of quantum gravity on electromagnetism and its backreaction, using perturbative general relativity as an effective field theory. Our analysis involves quantum-correcting Maxwell's equations to obtain a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-07-07 Sanjib Katuwal

In General Relativity, the propagation of electromagnetic waves is usually described by the vacuum Maxwell's equations on a fixed curved background. In the limit of infinitely high frequencies, electromagnetic waves can be localized as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-23 Marius A. Oancea , Claudio F. Paganini , Jérémie Joudioux , Lars Andersson

The propagation of weak gravitational waves on the background of dark energy is studied. The consideration is carried out within the framework of an approximate approach where the cosmological scale factor is expanded as a power series for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-10 Vladimir Dzhunushaliev , Vladimir Folomeev , Burkhard Kleihau , Jutta Kunz

Recently, we presented a unified way of analysing classical cosmological perturbation in generalized gravity theories. In this paper, we derive the perturbation spectrums generated from quantum fluctuations again in unified forms. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 J. Hwang

We study how quantum systems that propagate in the spacetime of a rotating planet are affected by the curved background. Spacetime curvature affects wavepackets of photons propagating from Earth to a satellite, and the changes in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Jan Kohlrus , David Edward Bruschi , Jorma Louko , Ivette Fuentes

The semi-classical approach to the quantum geometrodynamical model is used for the description of the properties of the universe on extremely small spacetime scales. Quantum theory for a homogeneous, isotropic and closed universe is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-21 V. E. Kuzmichev , V. V. Kuzmichev

The dynamics of the expanding universe is analyzed in terms of the quantum geometrodynamical model. It is shown that the equations of quantum theory in the form of the eigenvalues equation similar to the stationary Schr\"{o}dinger equation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-22 V. E. Kuzmichev , V. V. Kuzmichev

The classical and quantum models of the Friedmann universe originally filled with a scalar field and radiation have been studied. The radiation has been used to specify a reference frame that makes it possible to remove ambiguities in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 V. V. Kuzmichev

Waveguide quantum electrodynamics, the study of atomic systems interacting with propagating electromagnetic fields, is a powerful platform for understanding the complex interplay between light and matter. Qubit control is an indispensable…

The asymptotic behavior of the scattering amplitude for two scalar particles at high energies with fixed momentum transfers is studied. The study is done within the effective theory of quantum gravity based on quasi-potential equation. By…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-10-23 Nguyen Suan Han , Do Thu Ha , Nguyen Nhu Xuan

We demonstrate that the recently introduced linear equation, reformulating the first Friedmann equation, is the first-order WKB expansion of a quantum cosmological equation. This result shows a deeper underlying connection between General…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-11-04 Marco Matone , Nikolaos Dimakis

The description of black holes in loop quantum gravity is a hard and tricky task. In this article, we focus on a minisuperspace approach based on a polymerization procedure. We consider the resulting effective metric and study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-04 Flora Moulin , Killian Martineau , Julien Grain , Aurélien Barrau