Quantum nature of the big bang: Improved dynamics

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVD.74.084003zbMath1197.83047arXivgr-qc/0607039MaRDI QIDQ3053446

Tomasz Pawlowski, Abhay Ashtekar, Parampreet Singh

Publication date: 29 October 2010

Published in: Physical Review D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: An improved Hamiltonian constraint operator is introduced in loop quantum cosmology. Quantum dynamics of the spatially flat, isotropic model with a massless scalar field is then studied in detail using analytical and numerical methods. The scalar field continues to serve as `emergent time', the big bang is again replaced by a quantum bounce, and quantum evolution remains deterministic across the deep Planck regime. However, while with the Hamiltonian constraint used so far in loop quantum cosmology the quantum bounce can occur even at low matter densities, with the new Hamiltonian constraint it occurs only at a Planck-scale density. Thus, the new quantum dynamics retains the attractive features of current evolutions in loop quantum cosmology but, at the same time, cures their main weakness.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0607039

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45)

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