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Cosmology from Quantum Information

High Energy Physics - Theory 2020-09-16 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Quantum Physics

Abstract

We describe inflation in terms of a time dependent quantum density matrix with time playing the role of a stochastic variable. Using a quasi-de Sitter model we compute the corresponding quantum Fisher information function as the second derivative of the relative entanglement entropy for the density matrix at two different times. Employing standard quantum estimation theory we evaluate the minimal variance of quantum scalar fluctuations that reproduces the power spectrum and the corresponding tilt in the slow roll limit. The Jeffreys prior associated with such Fisher information can be used to define the probabilities on the set of initial conditions defined by the slow roll parameter ϵ\epsilon and the initial Shannon information.

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@article{arxiv.2002.04294,
  title  = {Cosmology from Quantum Information},
  author = {Cesar Gomez and Raul Jimenez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.04294},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

extended discussion in general and in particular for fluctuation curvature power spectrum and citations added

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