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.
Cite
@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)