|  Loop Quantum Cosmology – Models and Phenomenology | 
Bounce Models
  > s.a. bianchi I models; Bounce;
  FLRW models [including numerical]; friedmann equation [modified].
  @ General references: Date & Hossain PRL(05)gq/04;
    Singh et al PRD(06)gq;
    Bojowald PRD(07)gq/06 [large-scale effective theory];
    Bojowald & Tavakol PRD(08)-a0803 [and entropy];
    Hrycyna et al GRG(09)-a0804 [and quantisation ambiguities];
    Dzierzak et al APPB(10)-a0810 [and minimal length],
    PRD(09)-a0907 [classical model];
    Chiou & Li PRD(09)-a0901 [higher-order holonomy corrections];
    Małkiewicz & Piechocki CQG(10)-a0908;
    Kamiński & Pawłowski PRD(10)-a1001 [scattering picture];
    Mielczarek & Piechocki CQG(12)-a1107;
    Wilson-Ewing JCAP(13)-a1211 [quantum gravity effects in classical bounce];
    Rovelli & Wilson-Ewing PRD(14)-a1310 [surprising accuracy of the effective equations];
    Cai & Wilson-Ewing JCAP(14)-a1402 [effective field description];
    Haro & Amorós JCAP(14)-a1406 [matter bounce for general potentials];
    Zhu et al PLB(17)-a1607 [universal features];
    Liegener & Singh CQG(20)-a1906.
  @ With matter: Mielczarek et al PRD(08)-a0801 [massless scalar and cosmological constant];
    Bojowald GRG(08)-a0801 [interacting matter].
  @ Fluctuations: Bojowald PRS(08)-a0710;
    Bojowald PRL(08)-a0805 [correlations];
    Agulló et al CQG(17)-a1611 [effect of large fluctuations];
    Fraser PRD-2103.
  @ Memory and forgetfulness: news psu(07)jun;
    news pw(07)jul [cosmic forgetfulness];
    Corichi & Singh PRL(08)-a0710,
    comment Bojowald PRL(08)-a0811
    and reply PRL(08)-a0811 [cosmic recall];
    Mielczarek & Piechocki PRD(12)-a1108 [Gaussian state for bounce].
  @ In modified gravity: Amorós et al PRD(13)-a1305 [f(T) gravity];
    Oikonomou ASS(15)-a1412 [modified ekpyrotic model],
    GRG(15)-a1412 [f(R) gravity].
  @ Related topics: Piechocki AdP(10)-a1001-proc,
    AIP(12)-a1101 [non-standard quantization];
    De Risi et al PRD(07)-a0706 [graceful exit problem resolution];
    Chinaglia et al a1708 [non-polynomial gravity formulation];
    Dupuy & Singh PRD(20)-a1912 [hysteresis-like phenomena];
    > s.a. singularities in quantum gravity.
Other Pre-Big-Bang Models > s.a. quantum cosmological perturbations.
  @ Cyclic models:
    Lidsey et al PRD(04)gq;
    Bojowald et al PRD(04)ht.
  @ Anisotropic:
    Bojowald et al CQG(06) [perturbative];
    Singh & Wilson-Ewing CQG(14) [quantization ambiguities];
    > s.a. minisuperspace.
  @ Inhomogeneous: Rovelli & Vidotto CQG(08)-a0805;
    Mena et al IJMPA(09)-a0907 [hybrid loop-Fock];
    Garay et al PRD(10)-a1005 [Gowdy model];
    Bojowald et al PRD(12) [as a system of discrete patches];
    Bojowald AIP(13)-a1212 [highly inhomogeneous situations, including multiverse scenarios];
    Martín-de Blas et al JPCS(12)-a1301,
    AIP(11)-a1303 [with a massless scalar field];
    Grain IJMPD(16)-a1606 [deformed algebra approach];
    Elizaga Navascués et al IJMPD(16)-a1608 [hybrid models];
    Shahalam et al PRD(17)-a1710 [with power-law potentials].
With Matter / Phenomenology
  > s.a. 3D quantum gravity; cosmological models;
  numerical general relativity; quantum-cosmology
  phenomenology.
  * And inflation: In loop quantum cosmology
    the big bang is replaced by a quantum bounce followed by a phase of super-inflation.
  @ General references: Sakellariadou JPCS(10)-a1001;
    Bojowald et al PRL(11)-a1101 [observational constraints];
    Martín-Benito et al CQG(14)-a1307 [approximation methods];
    Barrau et al CQG(14)-a1309 [expected features];
    Zhu et al ApJL(15)-a1503 [primordial power spectra and spectral indices];
    Bolliet et al PRD(15)-a1502 [deformed algebra  vs dressed metric approach];
    Oikonomou PRD(16)-a1607 [universe evolution];
    Hassan & Husain CQG(17)-a1705 [polymer quantization of both gravity and matter].
  @ With a scalar field: Bojowald et al PRD(07) [massive or interacting scalar];
    Ashtekar et al PRD(09)-a0901 [scalar quantum field theory]; 
    Mielczarek PLB(09);
    Gielen JPCS(12)-a1108 [massless, sum over histories];
    Pawłowski & Ashtekar PRD(12)-a1112
      [massless, k = 0, with a positive cosmological constant];
    Kleidis & Oikonomou IJGMP(18)-a1801 [evolution, stability].
  @ Dirac / fermion fields: Bojowald et al PRD(08)-a0710 [and nucleosynthesis];
    Bojowald & Das CQG(08)-a0806 [role of parity];
    Artymowski et al a1305-MG13 [non-minimally coupled];
    Elizaga et al PRD(17)-a1703.
  @ Other matter: Wei & Zhang PRD(07) [quintom and hessence energies];
    Chen et al PRD(08)-a0808 [dark energy and dark matter];
    Jamil et al EPJC(11)-a1107 [dark energy, dark matter and unparticle].
  @ And inflation:
    Mielczarek PRD(10)-a0908;
    Ashtekar & Sloan PLB(10)-a0912
    + news ns(10)oct [slow-roll inflation];
    Chiou & Liu PRD(10)-a1002;
    PRD(10)-a1006;
    Corichi & Karami PRD(11)-a1011 [measure problem];
    Ashtekar & Sloan GRG(11)-a1103 [probability of inflation];
    Ranken & Singh PRD(12)-a1203 [power-law and assisted inflation];
    Zhang & Zhu PRD(13)-a1302 [warm inflation];
    Xiao et al PLB(13) [super-inflation];
    Linsefors & Barrau CQG(15)-a1405,
    Martineau et al PRD(17)-a1701 [duration of inflation in Bianchi I];
    Luc & Mielczarek JCAP(17)-a1610 [slow-roll approximation];
    Li et al PRD(18)-a1807 [inflationary attractors, different quantizations];
    > s.a. inflationary phenomenology.
  @ Pre-inflationary dynamics: Agulló et al CQG(13)-a1302;
    Ashtekar & Barrau CQG(15)-a1505 [and phenomenological consequences];
    Bonga & Gupt GRG(16)-a1510 [with the Starobinksy potential];
    Zhu et al PRD(17)-a1705;
    Shahalam et al PRD(17)-a1710 [power-law potentials];
    Sharma et al JCAP(18)-a1808 [scalar field with monodromy potential].
  @ Gravitational-wave production:
    Marques et al a1005 [and pre-inflationary universe];
    Sá & Henriques PRD(12)-a1108;
    Morais et al PRD(14)-a1310 [spectrum].
  @ Types of spacetimes: Parisi et al CQG(07)-a0706 [Einstein static universe, stability];
    Cailleteau et al PRD(09)-a0907,
    Wilson-Ewing JCAP(13)-a1306 [ekpyrotic/cyclic universe];
    Dadhich et al CQG(15)-a1505 [emergence of products of constant curvature spaces];
    Zhang EPJC(16)-a1506 [arbitrary dimensionality];
    > s.a. anti-de sitter space; FLRW models;
      minisuperspace [Bianchi, Kantowski-Sachs  models].
  > Related topics:
    see Chaplygin Gas; cmb anisotropy;
    models of dark energy; Phantom
    Field; time in quantum gravity.
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