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Inflation and the Measurement Problem

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2016-08-10 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics High Energy Physics - Theory Quantum Physics

Abstract

We propose a solution to the quantum measurement problem in Inflation. Our model treats Fourier modes of cosmological perturbations as analogous to particles in a weakly-interacting Bose gas. We generalize the idea of a macroscopic wavefunction to cosmological fields, and construct a self-interaction Hamiltonian that focuses that wavefunction. By appropriately setting the coupling between modes, we obtain the standard adiabatic, scale-invariant power spectrum. Because of Central Limit Theorem (CLT), we recover a Gaussian Random Field, consistent with observations.

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@article{arxiv.1602.01216,
  title  = {Inflation and the Measurement Problem},
  author = {Stephon Alexander and Dhrubo Jyoti and Joao Magueijo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.01216},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

5 pages, 2 figures (Minor language edits; added some references)

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