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Quantum entanglement in inflationary cosmology

High Energy Physics - Theory 2018-06-05 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We investigate the holographic quantum entanglement of a visible universe in an inflationary cosmology. To do so, we consider an AdS space with a dS boundary which represents an expanding space in time. In an inflationary cosmology, there exists a natural entangling surface called a cosmic event horizon which divides a universe into visible and invisible parts. In this model, cosmic event horizon monotonically decreases and approaches a constant value proportional to the inverse of Hubble constant. We show that the quantum entanglement between the visible and invisible universes divided by cosmic event horizon decreases monotonically in time. After an infinite time evolution, it finally approaches a constant value which is proportional to the inverse square of the Hubble constant for a four-dimensional dS space.

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@article{arxiv.1806.01092,
  title  = {Quantum entanglement in inflationary cosmology},
  author = {Seoktae Koh and Jung Hun Lee and Chanyong Park and Daeho Ro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.01092},
  year   = {2018}
}

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20 pages, 6 figures

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