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A semiclassical description of quantum systems is applied to probe the dynamics of the cosmological model of an inflationary universe with quadratic inflaton potential, described in a quantum framework of geometrodynamics. The systematic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-27 David Brizuela , Tomasz Pawlowski

At the minisuperspace level of homogeneous models, the bare probability for a classical universe has a huge peak at small universes for the Hartle-Hawking `no-boundary' wavefunction, in contrast to the suppression at small universes for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Don N. Page

In the canonical approach of loop quantum gravity, arguably the most important outstanding problem is finding and interpreting solutions to the Hamiltonian constraint. In this work, we demonstrate that methods of machine learning are in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-18 Hanno Sahlmann , Waleed Sherif

Spectrum of density perturbations in the Universe generated from quantum-gravitational fluctuations in slow-roll-over inflationary scenarios with the Brans-Dicke gravity is calculated. It is shown that after inflation the isocurvature mode…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Alexei A. Starobinsky , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

We investigate the quantum to classical transition of small inhomogeneous fluctuations in the early Universe using the decoherence functional of Gell-Mann and Hartle. We study two types of coarse graining; one due to coarse graining the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 R. Laflamme , A. Matacz

The selection of the ground state among nearly degenerate states due to quantum fluctuations is studied for the S=1/2 XY-like Heisenberg antiferromagnets on the triangular lattice in the magnetic field applied along the hard axis, which was…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Shin-ichiro Yoshikawa , Kouichi Okunishi , Makoto Senda , Seiji Miyashita

In this article, we investigate various physical implications of quantum circuit complexity using squeezed state formalism of Primordial Gravitational Waves (PGW). Recently quantum information theoretic concepts, such as entanglement…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-07 Kiran Adhikari , Sayantan Choudhury , Hardey N. Pandya , Rohan Srivastava

Primordial fluctuations in inflationary cosmology acquire classical properties through decoherence when their wavelengths become larger than the Hubble scale. Although decoherence is effective, it is not complete, so a significant part of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Kiefer , I. Lohmar , D. Polarski , A. A. Starobinsky

We extend the formalism to calculate non-Gaussianity of primordial curvature perturbations produced by preheating in the presence of a light scalar field. The calculation is carried out in the separate universe approximation using the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-31 Pulkit S. Ghoderao , Arttu Rajantie

We study density matrices in quantum gravity, focusing on topology change. We argue that the inclusion of bra-ket wormholes in the gravity path integral is not a free choice, but is dictated by the specification of a global state in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-07 Tarek Anous , Jorrit Kruthoff , Raghu Mahajan

A variational $\nu=2/3$ state, which unifies the sharp edge picture of MacDonald with the soft edge picture of Chang and of Beenakker is presented and studied in detail. Using an exact relation between correlation functions of this state…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 Yigal Meir

We report magnetocaloric and magnetic-torque evidence that in Cs$_{2}$CuBr$_{4}$ -- a geometrically frustrated Heisenberg $S=1/2$ triangular-lattice antiferromagnet -- quantum fluctuations stabilize a series of spin states at simple…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 N. A. Fortune , S. T. Hannahs , Y. Yoshida , T. E. Sherline , T. Ono , H. Tanaka , Y. Takano

Evolution of primordial fluctuations in a Brans-Dicke type scalar-tensor gravity theory is comprehensively investigated. The harmonic attractor model, in which the scalar field has its harmonic effective potential in the Einstein conformal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ryo Nagata , Takeshi Chiba , Naoshi Sugiyama

Loop quantum gravity in its Hamiltonian form relies on a connection formulation of the gravitational phase space with three key properties: 1.) a compact gauge group, 2.) real variables, and 3.) canonical Poisson brackets. In conjunction,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-09 Norbert Bodendorfer , Konstantin Eder , Xiangdong Zhang

Possibly, the most general action in the background of isotropic and homogeneous space-time has been considered to study the quantum evolution of the early universe, apart from a cosmological constant. The hermiticity of the effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-10-30 Ranajit Mandal , Dalia Saha , Mohosin Alam , Abhik Kumar Sanyal

We elucidate the nature of the correction to the Hartle-Hawking wavefunction presented in hep-th/$0505104$ and hep-th/$0406107$. The correction comes from the quantum fluctuation of the metric that spontaneously breaks the classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Saswat Sarangi , S. -H. Henry Tye

We argue that a plausible operational definition for an initial state of the Universe is the initial quantum state of the curvature perturbations generated during inflation. We provide a parameterization of this state and generalize the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-11 Nishant Agarwal , R. Holman , Andrew J. Tolley

We present the first steps needed for an analysis of the perturbations that occur in the cosmology associated with the conformal gravity theory. We discuss the implications of conformal invariance for perturbative coordinate gauge choices,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-30 Philip D. Mannheim

Bimetric gravity theories describes gravitational interactions in the presence of an extra spin-2 field. The Hassan-Rosen (HR) nonlinear massive minimal bigravity theory is a ghost-free bimetric theory formulated with respect a flat,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-28 Julio César Vera-Hernández

The fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) are investigated for a small open universe, i.e., one which is periodically composed of a small fundamental cell. The evolution of initial metric perturbations is computed using the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ralf Aurich