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By making a suitable generalization of the Starobinsky stochastic inflation, we propose a classical phase space formulation of stochastic inflation which may be used for a quantitative study of decoherence of cosmological perturbations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-01-04 Jan Weenink , Tomislav Prokopec

Time-dependent correlation functions of (unstable) particles undergoing biased or unbiased diffusion, coagulation and annihilation are calculated. This is achieved by similarity transformations between different stochastic models and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Malte Henkel , Enzo Orlandini , Gunter M. Schütz

Stochastic restoration algorithms allow to explore the space of solutions that correspond to the degraded input. In this paper we reveal additional fundamental advantages of stochastic methods over deterministic ones, which further motivate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Guy Ohayon , Theo Adrai , Michael Elad , Tomer Michaeli

For bouncing cosmologies such as the ekpyrotic/cyclic scenarios we show that it is possible to make predictions for density perturbations which are independent of the details of the bouncing phase. This can be achieved, as in inflationary…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Paolo Creminelli , Alberto Nicolis , Matias Zaldarriaga

The stochastic thermodynamics provides a framework for the description of systems that are out of thermodynamic equilibrium. It is based on the assumption that the elementary constituents are acted by random forces that generate a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-26 Mário J. de Oliveira

We investigate the problem of metric fluctuations in the presence of the vacuum fluctuations of matter fields and critically assess the usual assertion that vacuum energy implies a Planckian cosmological constant. A new stochastic classical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-06-19 Charles H. -T. Wang , Paolo M. Bonifacio , Robert Bingham , J. Tito Mendonca

We study the effective energy-momentum tensor (EMT) for cosmological perturbations and formulate the gravitational back-reaction problem in a gauge invariant manner. We analyze the explicit expressions for the EMT in the cases of scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-30 L. R. Abramo , R. H. Brandenberger , V. M. Mukhanov

The one-loop effective action for non-minimal scalar modified gravity on de Sitter background with a constant scalar field is found. The corresponding induced cosmological constant is evaluated. It is shown that quantum effects in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-07 G. Cognola , E. Elizalde , S. Nojiri , S. D. Odintsov

Recently researchers have been studying various conditions as swampland criteria in cosmological implications. They have studied many inflation models with different swampland conditions. Occasionally these conjectures are modified and lead…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-02-14 S. Noori Gashti , J. Sadeghi , B. Pourhassan

A phase-space formulation of non-stationary nonlinear dynamics including both Hamiltonian (e.g., quantum-cosmological) and dissipative (e.g., dissipative laser) systems reveals an unexpected affinity between seemly different branches of…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-05-30 Vladimir L. Kalashnikov , Sergey L. Cherkas

Stochastic semiclassical gravity is a theory for the interaction of gravity with quantum matter fields which goes beyond the semiclassical limit. The theory predicts stochastic fluctuations of the classical gravitational field induced by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Enric Verdaguer

We propose quantifying the quantum gravitational back-reaction on inflation with an invariant measure of the local acceleration rather than the expansion rate. Our observable is suitable for models in which there is no scalar inflaton to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-05 N. C. Tsamis , R. P. Woodard

A major goal of stochastic thermodynamics is to estimate the inevitable dissipation that accompanies particular observable phenomena in an otherwise not fully accessible system. Quantitative results are often formulated as lower bounds on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-17 Malena T. Bauer , Udo Seifert , Jann van der Meer

We study the dynamics of scalar metric fluctuations in a non-perturbative variational formalism recently introduced, by which the dynamics of an geometrical scalar field $\theta$, describes the quantum geometrical effects on a Weylian-like…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-15 Mauricio Bellini

Developing a macroscopic theory of elasto-plasticity in amorphous solids calls for (i) identifying the relevant macro state-variables and (ii) discriminating the different time-scales which characterize these variables. In current theories…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-25 Laurent Boue , Peter Harrowell , Smarajit Karmakar , Edan Lerner , Itamar Procaccia , Ido Regev , Jacques Zylberg

A new idea of the cosmological constant is proposed in this paper. Due to the horizon is limited, the quantum fluctuation of the inflaton field is not zero, a nonzero vacuum energy is remained as a residual inflationary energy of an unusual…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 De-Hai Zhang

I study a stochastic approach for warm inflation considering back - reaction of the metric with the fluctuations of matter field. This formalism takes into account the local inhomogeneities fo the spacetime in a globally flat Friedmann -…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-31 Mauricio Bellini

In stochastic quantisation, quantum mechanical expectation values are computed as averages over the time history of a stochastic process described by a Langevin equation. Complex stochastic quantisation, though theoretically not rigorously…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-08-18 Amel Durakovic , Emil Cortes Andre , Anders Tranberg

Combining the stochastic and $\delta N$ formalisms, we derive non perturbative analytical expressions for all correlation functions of scalar perturbations in single-field, slow-roll inflation. The standard, classical formulas are recovered…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-12-01 Vincent Vennin , Alexei A. Starobinsky

A correspondence between fluctuations of conformally invariant quantum fields and that of classical fields finally reducing to perfect fluid matter content is shown to exist. Previously a similar correspondence between the stress tensors…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-21 Seema Satin