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The initial state of the spherical gravitational collapse in general relativity has been studied with different methods, especially by using {\it a priori} given equations of state that describe the matter as a perfect fluid. We propose an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-24 Elly Bayona , Hernando Quevedo , Miguel Alcubierre

The Weyl-Wigner-Groenewold-Moyal formalism of deformation quantization is applied to cosmological models in the minisuperspace. The quantization procedure is performed explicitly for quantum cosmology in a flat minisuperspace. The de Sitter…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-09-27 Ruben Cordero , Hugo Garcia-Compean , Francisco J. Turrubiates

A simple model to study boson stars is to consider these stellar objects as quantum systems of $N$ identical self-gravitating particles within a non-relativistic framework. Some results obtained with point-like particles are recalled as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-25 C. Semay

Quantum fields in compact stars can be amplified due to a semiclassical instability. This generic feature of scalar fields coupled to curvature may affect the birth and the equilibrium structure of relativistic stars. We point out that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-22 Paolo Pani , Vitor Cardoso , Emanuele Berti , Jocelyn Read , Marcelo Salgado

Towards the end of their evolution hot massive stars develop strong stellar winds and appear as emission line stars, such as WR stars or LBVs. The quantitative description of the mass loss in these important pre-SN phases is hampered by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 G. Gräfener , J. S. Vink

This paper deals with isothermal Euler-Poisson system which is used to model collapse of self-gravitating Newtonian star. Density dependent viscosity term is added on the right-hand side of momentum equation and it has been proved that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Marko Nedeljkov , Sanja Ružičić

We compute the critical density of collapse for spherically symmetric overdensities in a class of f(R) modified gravity models. For the first time we evolve the Einstein, scalar field and non-linear fluid equations, making the minimal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-11-26 Michael Kopp , Stephen A. Appleby , Ixandra Achitouv , Jochen Weller

We study the dynamics of a quantum particle in R^(n+m) constrained by a strong potential force to stay within a distance of order hbar (in suitable units) from a smooth n-dimensional submanifold M. We prove that in the semiclassical limit…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. F. Dell'Antonio , L. Tenuta

We consider the dynamics of a quantum particle of mass $m$ on a $n$-edges star-graph with Hamiltonian $H_K=-(2m)^{-1}\hbar^2 \Delta$ and Kirchhoff conditions in the vertex. We describe the semiclassical limit of the quantum evolution of an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-04-09 Claudio Cacciapuoti , Davide Fermi , Andrea Posilicano

The axial mode oscillations are examined for relativistic rotating stars with uniform angular velocity. Using the slow rotation formalism and the Cowling approximation, we have derived the equations governing the r-mode oscillations up to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Yasufumi Kojima , Masayasu Hosonuma

The Schwarzschild black hole can be viewed as the special case of the marginally bound Lema\^\i tre-Tolman-Bondi models of dust collapse which corresponds to a constant mass function. We have presented a midi-superspace quantization of this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 Cenalo Vaz , Louis Witten

Sufficient conditions for wave breaking are found for the short-pulse equation describing wave packets of few cycles on the ultra-short pulse scale. The analysis relies on the method of characteristics and conserved quantities of the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2010-01-08 Yue Liu , Dmitry Pelinovsky , Anton Sakovich

Detection of a material particle is accompanied by emission of bremsstrahlung. Thus the dynamics of the energy loss of the particle is determined by radiation reaction force. The description of radiation reaction is a difficult problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Atilla Gurel , Zeynep Gurel

Determination of periodic orbits for a Hamiltonian system together with their semi-classical quantization has been a long standing problem. We consider here resonances for a $h$-Pseudo-Differential Operator $H(y,hD_y;h)$ induced by a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-08-11 Hanen Louati , Michel Rouleux

During a continuous measurement, quantum systems can be described by a stochastic Schr\"odinger equation which, in the appropriate limit, reproduces the von Neumann wave-function collapse. The average behavior on the ensemble of all…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Carlo Presilla , Ubaldo Tanbini

A generalized approach of the Born-Oppenheimer approximation is developed to analytically deal with the influence exercised by the spatial motion of atom's mass-center on a two-level atom in an optical ring cavity with a quantized…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Chang-Pu Sun

Efficacious quantum information processing relies on extended coherence and precise control. Investigating the limitations surrounding quantum processors is vital for their advancement. In their operation, one challenge is inadvertent wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 Alfred Li , Herschel A. Rabitz , Benjamin Lienhard

Macroscopic quantum optical effects (Schrodinger cat states, squeezing, collapse and revival) for light beams propagating in an inhomogeneous linear medium are demonstrated using exact analytical solutions of wave equation. It is shown that…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-22 Nikolai I. Petrov

The definition of matter states on spacelike hypersurfaces of a 1+1 dimensional black hole spacetime is considered. The effect of small quantum fluctuations of the mass of the black hole due to the quantum nature of the infalling matter is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-01 E. Keski-Vakkuri , G. Lifschytz , S. D. Mathur , M. E. Ortiz

We propose a modified dynamics of quantum mechanics, in which classical mechanics of a point mass derives intrinsically in a massive limit of a single-particle model. On the premise that a position basis plays a special role in wavefunction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Takuya Okabe