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The tunneling Hamiltonian has proven to be a useful method in many body physics to treat particle tunneling between different states represented as wavefunctions. Here we apply a generalization of the way we formed appropriate wave…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. W. Beckwith

We quantize the interaction of gravity with Yang-Mills and spinor fields, hence offering a quantum theory incorporating all four fundamental forces of nature. Using canonical quantization we obtain solutions of the Wheeler-DeWitt equation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-03-25 Claus Gerhardt

We consider the gravity interacting with matter scalar fields and quantized in the minisuperspace approach in which the wave functional is described by the Wheeler-DeWitt equations (WdW). Assuming the domination of the homogeneous and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-08 Alexander A. Andrianov , Oleg O. Novikov , Chen Lan

A new approach to vacuum decay in quantum field theory, based on a simple variational formulation in field space using a tunneling potential, is ideally suited to study the effects of gravity on such decays. The method allows to prove in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-05 J. R. Espinosa

Tunneling of a particle through a potential barrier remains one of the most remarkable quantum phenomena. Owing to advances in laser technology, electric fields comparable to those electrons experience in atoms are readily generated and…

We obtain effective equations of inflationary dynamics for the mean inflaton and metric fields in the no-boundary and tunneling quantum states of the Universe. In the slow roll approximation (taking the form of the local Schwiger-DeWitt…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-07-19 A. O. Barvinsky , A. Yu. Kamenshchik

Quantum cosmology uses a wave function to model the universe, but finding solutions for this poses a problem as it is difficult to define the boundary conditions or identify the correct path for a path integral. We begin the discussion by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-10 Alisha Marriott-Best

We exactly solve the Wheeler-DeWitt equation for the closed homogeneous and isotropic quantum cosmology in the presence of a conformally coupled scalar field and in the context of the generalized uncertainty principle. This form of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-12 Pouria Pedram

In the framework of the deformed quantum mechanics with minimal length, we consider the motion of a non-relativistic particle in a homogeneous external field. We find the integral representation for the physically acceptable wave function…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-12-14 Jun Tao , Peng Wang , Haitang Yang

Macroscopic quantum tunneling is described using the master equation for the reduced Wigner function of an open quantum system at zero temperature. Our model consists of a particle trapped in a cubic potential interacting with an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-04 Esteban Calzetta , Enric Verdaguer

The double-well potential is a good example, where we can compute the splitting in the bound state energy of the system due to the tunneling effect with various methods, namely WKB or instanton calculations. All these methods are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-18 Fatih Erman , O. Teoman Turgut

A new ''twice loose shoe'' method in the Wheeler-DeWitt equation of the universe wave function on the cosmic scale factor a and a scalar field $\phi$ is suggested in this letter. We analysis the both affects come from the tunneling effect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-01-17 De-Hai Zhang

Following the idea of a field quantization of gravity as realized in group field theory, we construct a minisuperspace model where the wavefunction of canonical quantum cosmology (either Wheeler-DeWitt or loop quantum cosmology) is promoted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-02 Gianluca Calcagni , Steffen Gielen , Daniele Oriti

We discuss new possible tunneling processes in the presence of gravity. We formulate quantum tunneling using the Wheeler-deWitt canonical quantization and the WKB approximation. The distinctive feature of our formulation is that it…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-07 Naritaka Oshita , Yutaro Shoji , Masahide Yamaguchi

We present the Hamiltonian formulation of a relativistic point-particle coupled to Einstein gravity and its canonical quantization \`a la Wheeler-DeWitt. In the resulting quantum theory, the wave functional is a function of the particle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-03-15 Ward Struyve

We provide a semiclassical theory of tunneling decay in a magnetic field and a three-dimensional potential of a general form. Because of broken time-reversal symmetry, the standard WKB technique has to be modified. The decay rate is found…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. Sharpee , M. I. Dykman , P. M. Platzman

We employ the semiclassical approximation to the Wheeler-DeWitt equation in the spatially flat de Sitter Universe to investigate the dynamics of a minimally coupled scalar field near the Planck scale. We find that, contrary to naive…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-07 Corrado Appignani , Roberto Casadio

The Klein-Gordon equation is a useful test arena for quantum cosmological models described by the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. We use the decoherent histories approach to quantum theory to obtain the probability that a free relativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 J. J. Halliwell , J. Thorwart

In this paper, we use the WKB approximation method to approximately solve a deformed Schrodinger-like differential equation: $\left[ -\hbar^{2} \partial_{\xi}^{2}g^{2}\left( -i\hbar\alpha\partial_{\xi}\right) -p^{2}\left( \xi\right) \right]…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-01-19 Bochen Lv , Peng Wang , Haitang Yang

The existing approaches to quantization of gravity aim at giving quantum description of 3-geometry following to the ideas of the Wheeler -- DeWitt geometrodynamics. In this description the role of gauge gravitational degrees of freedom is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-05-31 T. P. Shestakova