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The study of physics at the Planck scale has garnered significant attention due to its implications for understanding the fundamental nature of the universe. At the Planck scale, quantum fluctuations challenge the classical notion of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-26 Weihu Ma , Yu-Gang Ma

Quantum diffusion describes the inflow of vacuum quantum fluctuations as they get amplified by gravitational instability, and stretched to large distances during inflation. In this picture, the dynamics of the universe's expansion becomes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-12 Vincent Vennin , David Wands

Any quantum system interacting with a complex environment undergoes decoherence. Empty space is filled with vacuum energy due to matter fields in their ground state and represents an underlying environment that any quantum particle has to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-26 Paolo M. Bonifacio

This paper presents the first derivation of the quadratic action for curvature perturbations, $\zeta$, within the framework of cuscuton gravity. We study the scalar cosmological perturbations sourced by a canonical single scalar field in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-07-26 Supranta S. Boruah , Hyung J. Kim , Ghazal Geshnizjani

We consider the amplification of electromagnetic quantum vacuum fluctuations induced by the presence of metric perturbations at the end of inflation. We obtain the amplitude of the corresponding magnetic fields on super-Hubble scales and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Antonio L. Maroto

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

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 set up a covariant renormalisation group equation on a foliated spacetime which preserves background diffeomorphism symmetry. As a first application of the new formalism, we study the effect of quantum fluctuations in Lorentz symmetry…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-03-27 Benjamin Knorr

It has recently been suggested that Planck scale physics may effect the evolution of cosmological fluctuations in the early stages of cosmological inflation in a non-trivial way, leading to an excited state for modes whose wavelength is…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Robert H. Brandenberger , Jerome Martin

Quantum gravitational effects in loop quantum cosmology lead to a resolution of the initial singularity and have the potential to solve the horizon problem and generate a quasi scale-invariant spectrum of density fluctuations. We consider…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Joao Magueijo , Parampreet Singh

We consider a cosmological model starting from (1) the(1+3+6)-dimensional space-times consisting of the outer space (the 3-dimensional expanding section) and the inner space (the 6-dimensional section) and reaching (2) the Friedmann model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-24 Kenji Tomita

We show that if the primordial classical perturbations were generated by the gravitational particle creation during inflation, and followed by an evolution of quantum-to-classical transition,the time dependent correlation of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Wo-Lung Lee , Li-Zhi Fang

It is generally expected that quantum gravity affects the structure of space-time by introducing stochastic fluctuations in the geometry, and, ultimately, in the measurements of four-distances and four-momenta.These fluctuations may induce…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Aloisio , P. Blasi , A. Galante , P. L. Ghia , A. F. Grillo

We calculate the power spectrum of cosmological perturbations originated from quantum vacuum fluctuations in bouncing scenarios proposed in Ref.~\cite{chamseddine2014cosmology} in the framework of mimetic cosmology. We show that all…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-02 Idaiane L. Machado , Dêivid R. da Silva , Nelson Pinto-Neto

We present a new approach to gauge-invariant cosmological perturbations at second order, which is also covariant. We examine two cases in particular for a dust Friedman-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker model of any curvature: we investigate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Chris Clarkson

We argue that the preferred classical variables that emerge from a pure quantum state are determined by its entanglement structure in the form of redundant records: information shared between many subsystems. Focusing on the early universe,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-12-13 Elliot Nelson , C. Jess Riedel

In the inflationary universe scenario, the physical wavelength of cosmological fluctuation modes which are currently probed in observations was shorter than the Hubble radius, and in fact shorter than the Planck and string lengths, at the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul Robert Chouha , Robert H. Brandenberger

A major challenge at the interface of quantum gravity and cosmology is to explain the emergence of the large-scale structure of the Universe from Planck scale physics. In this letter, we extract the dynamics of scalar isotropic cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-08-23 Alexander F. Jercher , Luca Marchetti , Andreas G. A. Pithis

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

We investigate tensor modes in inflationary scenarios from the point of view of Ashtekar variables and their generalizations labelled by Immirzi parameter \gamma, which we'll assume imaginary. By defining the classical perturbed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-08-08 Laura Bethke , Joao Magueijo