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A quantum cosmological bouncing model may exhibit an ambiguity stemming from the nonclassical nature of the background evolution: two classically equivalent theories can produce two qualitatively different potentials sourcing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-25 Jaime de Cabo Martin , Przemysław Małkiewicz , Patrick Peter

The present manuscript presents modeling of matter bounce in the framework of $f(R,T)$ gravity where $f(R,T) = R + 2 \lambda T$. We start by defining a parametrization of scale factor which is non-vanishing. The geometrical parameters such…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-04 Parbati Sahoo , S. Bhattacharjee , S. K. Tripathy , P. K. Sahoo

Matter bounces refer to scenarios wherein the universe contracts at early times as in a matter dominated epoch until the scale factor reaches a minimum, after which it starts expanding. While such scenarios are known to lead to scale…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-31 Rathul Nath Raveendran , Debika Chowdhury , L. Sriramkumar

In this paper, we model the bounce phase, stability, and the reconstruction of the universe by non-minimal kinetic coupling. In the process, we obtained importance information about the energy density and the matter pressure of the universe…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-10 Alireza Amani , A. S. Kubeka , E. Mahichi

Quantum effects are expected to modify the cosmological dynamics of the early universe while maintaining some (potentially discrete) notion of space-time structure. In one approach, loop quantum cosmology, current models are shown here to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-29 Martin Bojowald , Manuel Diaz , Erick I. Duque

We develop a non-singular bouncing cosmology using a non-trivial coupling of general relativity to fermionic fields. The usual Big Bang singularity is avoided thanks to a negative energy density contribution from the fermions. Our theory is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-12-10 Stephon Alexander , Cosimo Bambi , Antonino Marciano , Leonardo Modesto

Scenario of a bouncing universe is one of the most active area of research to arrive at singularity free cosmological models. Different proposals have been suggested to avoid the so called 'big bang' singularity through the quantum aspect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-26 Indrani Banerjee , Tanmoy Paul , Soumitra SenGupta

A bounce universe model, known as the coupled-scalar-tachyon bounce (CSTB) universe, has been shown to solve the Horizon, Flatness and Homogeneity problems as well as the Big Bang Singularity problem. Furthermore a scale invariant spectrum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-23 Lei Ming , Taifan Zheng , Yeuk-Kwan E. Cheung

I make a review on the aplications of the Bohm-De Broglie interpretation of quantum mechanics to quantum cosmology. In the framework of minisuperspaces models, I show how quantum cosmological effects in Bohm's view can avoid the initial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-04 Nelson Pinto-Neto

Understanding quantum theory in terms of a geometric picture sounds great. There are different approaches to this idea. Here we shall present a geometric picture of quantum theory using the de-Broglie--Bohm causal interpretation of quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Fatimah Shojai , Ali Shojai

We investigate a cosmological model with a big-brake singularity in the future: while the first time derivative of the scale factor goes to zero, its second time derivative tends to minus infinity. Although we also discuss the classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Alexander Kamenshchik , Claus Kiefer , Barbara Sandhoefer

In De Broglie-Bohm Pilot-Wave Theory unique equations of motion and scalar fields for a particle can be formulated. This is done by finding a solution for a divergence free probability density current $\vec{J}(r,t)$ and then dividing by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Connell Bristow

Planck-scale physics challenges the classical smooth-spacetime picture by introducing quantum fluctuations that imply a nontrivial spacetime microstructure. We present a framework that encodes these fluctuations by promoting local scale…

General Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Weihu Ma , Yu-Gang Ma

In a recent paper we studied the cosmology of Nonminimal Derivative Coupling (NDC) between gravity and a scalar field, which is a non-trivial class of Horndeski. We have shown that it presents a variety of solutions for the scale factor,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-08 Isaac Torres , Felipe de Melo Santos , Anderson Almeida da Piedade

We study the cosmology of a Lee-Wick type scalar field theory. First, we consider homogeneous and isotropic background solutions and find that they are nonsingular, leading to cosmological bounces. Next, we analyze the spectrum of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-18 Yi-Fu Cai , Taotao Qiu , Robert Brandenberger , Xinmin Zhang

Loop quantum cosmology homogeneous models with a massless scalar field show that the big-bang singularity can be replaced by a big quantum bounce. To gain further insight on the nature of this bounce, we study the semi-discrete loop quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Pablo Laguna

In this paper, we have presented a bouncing cosmological model of the Universe in an extended theory of gravity. The dynamical behaviour of the model obtained from the flat FLRW space-time along with the violation of null energy condition…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-22 A. S. Agrawal , Francisco Tello-Ortiz , B. Mishra , S. K. Tripathy

Quantum cosmological models are commonly described by means of semiclassical approximations in which a smooth evolution of the expectation values of elementary geometry operators replaces the classical and singular dynamics. The advantage…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-28 Przemysław Małkiewicz , Artur Miroszewski

We investigate a bouncing cosmological model within the Weyl-type $f(Q)$ gravity framework, employing a power-law form of the non-metricity scalar $Q$. The model successfully resolves the initial singularity problem by demonstrating a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-04 Rita Rani , G. K. Goswami , J. K. Singh , Sushant G. Ghosh , Sunil D Maharaj

A union of matter bounce and Ekpyrotic scenarios is often studied in an attempt to combine the most promising features of these two models. Since non-perturbative quantum geometric effects in loop quantum cosmology (LQC) result in natural…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-31 Bao-Fei Li , Sahil Saini , Parampreet Singh