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We explore the possibility of avoiding cosmological singularity with a bounce solution in the early Universe. The main finding is that simple and well-known semiclassical correction, which describes the mixing of radiation and gravity in…

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Developments in theoretical cosmology in the recent decades show a close connection with particle physics, quantum gravity and unified theories. Answers or hints to many fundamental questions in cosmology like the homogeneity and isotropy…

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We consider vacuum polarization effect of a conformally coupled massless scalar field in the background produced by an idealized straight cosmic string. Using previous criterion we show the calculation of back reaction of the field to the…

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An additional variation of the Einstein-Hilbert action with respect to the Planck mass provides a constraint on the average Ricci scalar that prevents vacuum energy from gravitating. Consideration of the evolution of the inhomogeneous…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-09-18 Lucas Lombriser

Semiclassical Einstein-Langevin equations for arbitrary small metric perturbations conformally coupled to a massless quantum scalar field in a spatially flat cosmological background are derived. Use is made of the fact that for this problem…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Antonio Campos , Enric Verdaguer

The behavior of spin-1/2 particle in a weak static gravitational field is considered. The Dirac Hamiltonian is diagonalized by the Foldy-Wouthuysen transformation providing also the simple form for the momentum and spin polarization…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. J. Silenko , O. V. Teryaev

The semiclassical backreaction equations are solved in closed Robertson-Walker spacetimes containing a positive cosmological constant and a conformally coupled massive scalar field. Renormalization of the stress-energy tensor results in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-23 Leda Gao , Paul R. Anderson , Robert S. Link

We provide arguments indicating that the semiclassical Einstein equations follow from quantum relative entropy and its proportionality to an area variation. Using modular theory, we establish that the relative entropy between the vacuum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-03-04 Philipp Dorau , Albert Much

The Einstein equation in a semi-classical approximation is applied to a spherical region of the universe, with the stress-energy tensor consisting of the mass density and pressure of the LambdaCDM cosmological model plus an additional…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-11 Emilio Santos

In this letter, we show that the Semiclassical Einstein's Field Equation can be recovered using the generalized entropy $S_{gen}$. This approach is reminiscent of non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Furthermore, contrary to the entanglement…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-30 Naman Kumar

The phenomenon of quantum vacuum polarization in the presence of a gravitational field is well understood and is expected to have a physical reality, but studies of its back-reaction on the dynamics of spacetime are practically non-existent…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-02-08 Raúl Carballo-Rubio

We derive effective equations of motion for a massless charged particle coupled to the dynamical electromagnetic field having regard to the radiation back reaction. It is shown that unlike the massive case not all the divergences resulting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 P. O. Kazinski , A. A. Sharapov

An investigation of the validity of the semiclassical approximation to quantum electrodynamics in 1+1 dimensions is given. The criterion for validity used here involves the impact of quantum fluctuations introduced through a two-point…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-02 Ian M. Newsome , Paul R. Anderson , Eric M. Grotzke

An attempt to explain with the classical stands a number of statements of the quantum mechanics has been done. At this the Plank constant appears as consequence of demand of nucleon stability. Proton can be imagined as a rotating disk which…

General Physics · Physics 2010-10-12 L. A. Pobedonostsev

When quantum back-reaction by fluctuations, correlations and higher moments of a state becomes strong, semiclassical quantum mechanics resembles a dynamical system with a high-dimensional phase space. Here, systematic computational methods…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-09-13 Martin Bojowald , David Brizuela , Hector H. Hernandez , Michael J. Koop , Hugo A. Morales-Tecotl

A procedure based on the semiclassical approximation for high energy levels is developed to yield solutions to the classical equation of charge motion and to the Bargmann-Michel-Telegdi spin equation. To this end, exact solutions to the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-10 V. A. Bordovitsyn , A. N. Myagkii

We consider the backreaction problem of a quantized minimally coupled massless scalar field in cosmology. The adiabatically regularized stress-energy tensor in a general Friedmann-Robertson-Walker background is approximately evaluated by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-04 Ali Kaya , Merve Tarman

The back-reaction of a classical gravitational field interacting with quantum matter fields is described by the semiclassical Einstein equation, which has the expectation value of the quantum matter fields stress tensor as a source. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. Verdaguer

We propose an additional term in the classical gravitational force law, which is repelling in nature, and which may solve the dark matter problem. As an inverse cube field interaction, it operates over 4 real spatial dimensions and its…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Terry Matilsky

In this work we investigate the semi-classical backreaction for a quantised conformal scalar field and classical vacuum energy. In contrast to the usual approximation of a closed system, our analysis includes an environmental sector such…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-11-21 Tommi Markkanen