Published January 17, 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

Quantum FRW cosmological solutions in the presence of Chaplygin gas and perfect fluid

  • 1. Department of Physics, Shahid Beheshti University, Evin, Tehran 19839 (Iran, Islamic Republic of)

Description

We present a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker quantum cosmological model in the presence of Chaplygin gas and perfect fluid for early and late time epochs. In this work, we consider perfect fluid as an effective potential and apply Schutz's variational formalism to the Chaplygin gas which recovers the notion of time. These give rise to Schroedinger-Wheeler-DeWitt equation for the scale factor. We use the eigenfunctions in order to construct wave packets and study the time dependent behavior of the expectation value of the scale factor using the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. We show that contrary to the classical case, the expectation value of the scale factor avoids singularity at quantum level. Moreover, this model predicts that the expansion of Universe is accelerating for the late times

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2007.11.013

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Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.physletb.2007.11.013;
arXiv
arXiv:0711.1996v1;
PII
S0370-2693(07)01407-4;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics Letters. Section B
Journal Volume
659
Journal Issue
1-2
Journal Page Range
p. 6-13
ISSN
0370-2693
CODEN
PYLBAJ

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