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Pedro de Jesus Marto, João

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  • Dynamics of Apparent Horizons in Quantum Gravitational Collapse
    Publication . Tavakoli, Yaser; Dapor, Andrea; Marto, João
    We study the gravitational collapse of a massless scalar field within the effective scenario of loop quantum gravity. Classical singularity is avoided and replaced by a quantum bounce in this model. It is shown that, quantum gravity effects predict a threshold scale bellow which no horizon can form as the collapse evolves towards the bounce.
  • Improved dynamics and gravitational collapse of tachyon field coupled with a barotropic fluid
    Publication . Marto, João; Tavakoli, Yaser; Moniz, Paulo
    We consider a spherically symmetric gravitational collapse of a tachyon field with an inverse square potential, which is coupled with a barotropic fluid. By employing an holonomy correction imported from loop quantum cosmology, we analyse the dynamics of the collapse within a semiclassical description. Using a dynamical system approach, we find that the stable fixed points given by the standard general relativistic setting turn into saddle points in the present context. This provides a new dynamics in contrast to the black hole and naked singularities solutions appearing in the classical model. Our results suggest that classical singularities can be avoided by quantum gravity effects and are replaced by a bounce. By a thorough numerical studies we show that, depending on the barotropic parameter $\gamma$, there exists a class of solutions corresponding to either a fluid or a tachyon dominated regimes. Furthermore, for the case $\gamma \sim 1$, we find an interesting tracking behaviour between the tachyon and the fluid leading to a dust-like collapse. In addition, we show that, there exists a threshold scale which determines when an outward energy flux emerges, as a non-singular black hole is forming, at the corresponding collapse final stages.
  • Semiclassical dynamics of horizons in spherically symmetric collapse
    Publication . Tavakoli, Yaser; Marto, João; Dapor, Andrea
    In this work, we consider a semiclassical description of the spherically symmetric gravitational collapse with a massless scalar field. In particular, we employ an effective scenario provided by holonomy corrections from loop quantum gravity, to the homogeneous interior spacetime. The singularity that would arise at the final stage of the corresponding classical collapse, is resolved in this context and is replaced by a bounce. Our main purpose is to investigate the evolution of trapped surfaces during this semiclassical collapse. Within this setting, we obtain a threshold radius for the collapsing shells in order to have horizons formation. In addition, we study the final state of the collapse by employing a suitable matching at the boundary shell from which quantum gravity effects are carried to the exterior geometry.
  • Gravitational collapse with tachyon field and barotropic fluid
    Publication . Tavakoli, Yaser; Marto, João; Ziaie, Amir Hadi; Moniz, Paulo
    A particular class of space-time, with a tachyon field, ϕ, and a barotropic fluid constituting the matter content, is considered herein as a model for gravitational collapse. For simplicity, the tachyon potential is assumed to be of inverse square form i.e., V(ϕ)∼ϕ^(−2). Our purpose, by making use of the specific kinematical features of the tachyon, which are rather different from a standard scalar field, is to establish the several types of asymptotic behavior that our matter content induces. Employing a dynamical system analysis, complemented by a thorough numerical study, we find classical solutions corresponding to a naked singularity or a black hole formation. In particular, there is a subset where the fluid and tachyon participate in an interesting tracking behaviour, depending sensitively on the initial conditions for the energy densities of the tachyon field and barotropic fluid. Two other classes of solutions are present, corresponding respectively, to either a tachyon or a barotropic fluid regime. Which of these emerges as dominant, will depend on the choice of the barotropic parameter, γ. Furthermore, these collapsing scenarios both have as final state the formation of a black hole.
  • Semiclassical collapse with tachyon field and barotropic fluid
    Publication . Tavakoli, Yaser; Marto, João; Ziaie, Amir Hadi; Moniz, Paulo
    The purpose of this paper is to extend the analysis presented in Goswami et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 031302 (2006)] by means of investigating how a specific type of loop (quantum) effect can alter the outcome of gravitational collapse. To be more concrete, a particular class of spherically symmetric spacetime is considered with a tachyon field ϕ and a barotropic fluid constituting the matter content; the tachyon potential V(ϕ) is assumed to be of the form ϕ^(−2). Within inverse triad corrections, we then obtain, for a semiclassical description, several classes of analytical as well as numerical solutions. Moreover, we identify a subset whose behavior corresponds to an outward flux of energy, thus avoiding either a naked singularity or a black hole formation.
  • Interacting 3-form dark energy models: distinguishing interactions and avoiding the Little Sibling of the Big Rip
    Publication . Morais, João; Bouhmadi Lopez, Mariam; Kumar, K. Sravan; Marto, João; Tavakoli, Yaser
    In this paper we consider 3-form dark energy (DE) models with interactions in the dark sector. We aim to distinguish the phenomenological interactions that are defined through the dark matter (DM) and the DE energy densities. We do our analysis mainly in two stages. In the first stage, we identify the non-interacting 3-form DE model which generically leads to an abrupt late-time cosmological event which is known as the little sibling of the Big Rip (LSBR). We classify the interactions which can possibly avoid this late-time abrupt event. We also study the parameter space of the model that is consistent with the interaction between DM and DE energy densities at present as indicated by recent studies based on BAO and SDSS data. In the later stage, we observationally distinguish those interactions using the statefinder hierarchy parameters {S3(1),S4 (1)},{S3 (1),S5 (1)} . We also compute the growth factor parameter ε(z) for the various interactions we consider herein and use the composite null diagnostic (CND) {S3(1), ε(z)} as a tool to characterise those interactions by measuring their departures from the concordance model. In addition, we make a preliminary analysis of our model in light of the recently released data by SDSS~III on the measurement of the linear growth rate of structure.
  • Loop quantum effect and the fate of tachyon field collapse
    Publication . Tavakoli, Yaser; Moniz, Paulo; Marto, João; Ziaie, Amir Hadi
    We study the fate of gravitational collapse of a tachyon field matter. In presence of an inverse square potential a black hole forms. Loop quantum corrections lead to the avoidance of classical singularities, which is followed by an outward flux of energy.