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We have studied the temporal evolution of a quantum system subjected to strong dissipation at ultra-low temperatures where the system-bath interaction represents the leading energy scale. In this regime, theory predicts the time evolution…

The generalized Chaplygin gas (GCG) model allows for an unified description of the recent accelerated expansion of the Universe and the evolution of energy density perturbations. This dark energy - dark matter unification is achieved…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 M. C. Bento , O. Bertolami , A. A. Sen

The WKB approximation for deformed space with minimal length is considered. The Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization rule is obtained. A new interesting feature in presence of deformation is that the WKB approximation is valid for intermediate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. V. Fityo , I. O. Vakarchuk , V. M. Tkachuk

Addressing the late-time accelerated expansion of the universe, known as the "dark energy problem", remains a central challenge in cosmology. While the cosmological constant is the standard explanation, alternative models such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-27 Gilberto Aguilar-Pérez , Miguel Cruz , Mohsen Fathi , Daniel de Jesús García-Castro , J. R. Villanueva

Hawking radiation is studied for arbitrary scalars, fermions, and spin-1 bosons, using a tunneling approach, to every order in $\hbar$ but ignoring back-reaction effects. It is shown that the additional quantum terms yield no new…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-19 Alexandre Yale

We extend the WKB method for the computation of cosmological perturbations during inflation beyond leading order and provide the power spectra of scalar and tensor perturbations to second order in the slow-roll parameters. Our method does…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 R. Casadio , F. Finelli , M. Luzzi , G. Venturi

Using the semiclassical WKB approximation and Hamilton-Jacobi method, we solve an equation of motion for the Glashow-Weinberg-Salam model, which is important for understanding the unified gauge-theory of weak and electromagnetic…

General Physics · Physics 2018-07-20 Ali Övgün , Wajiha Javed , Riasat Ali

In this paper it is studied the cosmology of a homogeneous and isotropic spacetime endorsed with a conformally coupled massless scalar field. We find six different solutions of the Friedmann equation that represent six different types of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-20 Salvador J. Robles-Perez

Some commonly used approximations for complete fusion and breakup transmission coefficients in collisions of weakly bound projectiles at near barrier energies are assessed. We show that they strongly depend on the adopted classical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 W. H. Z. Cardenas , L. F. Canto , R. Donangelo , M. S. Hussein , J. Lubian , A. Romanelli

The generalized Chaplygin gas (GCG) model explains the recent accelerated expansion of the Universe via an exotic background fluid whose equation of state is given by p=-A/\rho^\alpha, where A is a positive constant and 0<\alpha\le 1. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 M. C. Bento , O. Bertolami , A. A. Sen

The existence of a landscape of metastable vacua raises the possibility that our Universe may have undergone quantum vacuum decay at late times. This work explores how such a transition can be tested with cosmological observables, focusing…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-29 Yang Bai , Sida Lu , Nicholas Orlofsky

Unified generalized Chaplygin gas models assuming an interaction between dark energy and dark matter fluids have been previously proposed. Following these ideas, we consider a particular relation between dark densities, which allows the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Garcia-Compean , G. Garcia-Jimenez , O. Obregon , C. Ramirez

We study the quantum tunnel effect through a potential barrier employing a semiclassical formulation of quantum mechanics based on expectation values of configuration variables and quantum dispersions as dynamical variables. The evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 L. Aragon-Muñoz , G. Chacon-Acosta , H. Hernandez-Hernandez

We have assumed the FRW universe in loop quantum cosmology (LQC) model filled with the dark matter and the Generalized Cosmic Chaplygin gas (GCCG) type dark energy where dark matter follows the linear equation of state. We present the…

General Physics · Physics 2014-09-25 Chayan Ranjit , Ujjal Debnath

In the language of black hole physics, Hawking radiation is one of the most controversial subjects about which there exist lots of puzzles, including the information loss problem and the question of whether this radiation is thermal or not.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-30 Milad Hajebrahimi , Kourosh Nozari

Tunneling processes through black hole horizons have recently been investigated in the framework of WKB theory discovering interesting interplay with the Hawking radiation. In this paper we instead adopt the point of view proper of QFT in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 Valter Moretti , Nicola Pinamonti

As a model for the semiclassical analysis of quantum-mechanical systems with both potentials and boundary conditions, we construct the WKB propagator for a linear potential sloping away from an impenetrable boundary. First, we find all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 T. A. Zapata , S. A. Fulling

The supersymmetric-WKB series is shown to be such that the SWKB quantisation condition has corrections in powers of h^2 only and with explicit overall factors of E. The results also suggest more efficient methods of calculating the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. T. Barclay

We investigate relativistic wavepacket dynamics for an electron tunneling through a potential barrier employing space-time resolved solutions to relativistic quantum field theory (QFT) equations. We prove by linking the QFT property of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 M. Alkhateeb , X. Gutierrez de la Cal , M. Pons , D. Sokolovski , A. Matzkin

We consider the generalisation of quantum tunneling transitions in the WKB approximation to the time-independent functional Schr\"odinger and Wheeler-DeWitt equations. Following a Lorentzian approach, we compute the transition rates among…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-04 Sebastian Cespedes , Senarath P. de Alwis , Francesco Muia , Fernando Quevedo