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Cosmological perturbations generated quantum-mechanically (as a particular case, during inflation) possess statistical properties of squeezed quantum states. The power spectra of the perturbations are modulated and the angular distribution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 L. P. Grishchuk

Previously defined covariant and gauge-invariant perturbation variables, representing, e.g., the fractional spatial energy density gradient on hypersurfaces of constant expansion, are used to simplify the linear perturbation analysis of a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Winfried Zimdahl

We study the dynamics of perturbations representing deviations from perfect isotropy in the context of the emergent cosmology obtained from the group field theory formalism for quantum gravity. Working in the mean field approximation of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-12 Marco de Cesare , Daniele Oriti , Andreas G. A. Pithis , Mairi Sakellariadou

We initiate a study of the complexity of quantum field theories (QFTs) by proposing a measure of information contained in a QFT and its observables. We show that from minimal assertions, one is naturally led to measure complexity by two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-16 Thomas W. Grimm , Mick van Vliet

In the present work an inflationary tachyon field model of the early universe is considered. Several cosmological effects produced by a particular potential in this tachyonic era are studied, under the approximation of slow-roll inflation.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-09 Iván E. Sánchez G. , Osvaldo P. Santillan

We calculate power spectra of cosmological perturbations at high accuracy for two classes of inflation models. We classify the models according to the behaviour of the Hubble distance during inflation. Our approximation works if the Hubble…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Dominik J. Schwarz , Cesar A. Terrero-Escalante , Alberto A. Garcia

We develop a systematic classical framework to accommodate canonical quantization of geometric and matter perturbations on a quantum homogeneous isotropic flat spacetime. The existing approach of standard cosmological perturbations is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-05 Andrea Dapor , Jerzy Lewandowski , Jacek Puchta

The decoherence of quantum fluctuations into classical perturbations during inflation is discussed. A simple quantum mechanical argument, using a spatial particle wavefunction rather than a field description, shows that observable…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Craig J. Hogan

In Nielsen's geometric approach to quantum complexity, the introduction of a suitable geometrical space, based on the Lie group formed by fundamental operators, facilitates the identification of complexity through geodesic distance in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Satyaki Chowdhury , Martin Bojowald , Jakub Mielczarek

We show that quantum circuit complexity for the unitary time evolution operator of any time-independent Hamiltonian is bounded by linear growth at early times, independent of any choices of the fundamental gates or cost metric. Deviations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-10-15 S. Shajidul Haque , Ghadir Jafari , Bret Underwood

Inflationary cosmology provides a natural mechanism for the generation of primordial perturbations which seed the formation of observed cosmic structure and lead to specific signals of anisotropy in the cosmic microwave background…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-19 Salman Habib , Andreas Heinen , Katrin Heitmann , Gerard Jungman

For the Ekpyrotic universe, the entropic mechanisms with minimal couplings, which have been used to generate nearly scale invariant primordial perturbations, was proved to be unstable. To overcome this difficulty, some non-minimal coupling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-05-09 Mingzhe Li

In this paper, we investigate the circuit complexity of a quantum charged particle in an external magnetic field. Utilizing the Nielsen approach, we determine the complexity of thermofield double states as functions of time, temperature,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-17 M. Radomirov

In this paper we investigate tensor modes of perturbations in the universe governed by Loop Quantum Cosmology. We derive the equation for tensor modes and investigate numerically effects of quantum corrections. This investigation reveals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jakub Mielczarek , Marek Szydlowski

We study two-field bouncing cosmologies in which primordial perturbations are created in either an ekpyrotic or a matter-dominated contraction phase. We use a non-singular ghost condensate bounce model to follow the perturbations through…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-06 Angelika Fertig , Jean-Luc Lehners , Enno Mallwitz , Edward Wilson-Ewing

Using computer simulations we study the geometry of a typical quantum universe, i.e. the geometry one might expect before a possible period of inflation. We display it using coordinates defined by means of four classical scalar fields…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-01 J. Ambjorn , Z. Drogosz , J. Gizbert-Studnicki , A. Görlich , J. Jurkiewicz , D. Németh

It is proposed that if quantum states of space-time are coherent on null surfaces, holographic Planck-scale fluctuations of inflationary horizons dominate the formation of primordial scalar curvature perturbations. It is shown that the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-17 Craig Hogan

In the standard inflationary paradigm, cosmological density perturbations are generated as quantum fluctuations in the early Universe, but then undergo a quantum-to-classical transition. A key role in this transition is played by squeezing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-19 Roland de Putter , Olivier Doré

Quantum cosmological models are commonly described by means of semiclassical approximations in which a smooth evolution of the expectation values of elementary geometry operators replaces the classical and singular dynamics. The advantage…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-28 Przemysław Małkiewicz , Artur Miroszewski

Nielsen's geometric approach offers a powerful framework for quantifying the complexity of unitary transformations. In this formulation, complexity is defined as the length of the minimal geodesic in a suitably constructed geometric space…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-18 Satyaki Chowdhury , Jakub Mielczarek