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arXiv 0810.0087astro-phgr-qcquant-ph
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为什么宇宙学扰动对我们来说是经典的?

Why do cosmological perturbations look classical to us?

Claus Kiefer, David Polarski

摘要:

根据宇宙学的暴胀理论,宇宙中的所有结构都可以追溯到早期宇宙加速(暴胀)阶段的原始波动。一个概念上的问题出现了,由于这样一个事实,即原始的波动是量子的,而结构形成的标准方案处理经典的波动。在这篇文章中,我们提出了一个简洁的总结描述量子到经典过渡的物理。我们首先讨论了在封闭系统方法(实用观点)中经典关联函数和量子关联函数之间的观测不相容性。然后,我们提出了开放系统的方法与环境诱导的退相干。最后,我们讨论了涨落熵的问题,原则上,导致退相干的具体机制具有观测相关性。

英文摘要:

According to the inflationary scenario of cosmology, all structure in the Universe can be traced back to primordial fluctuations during an accelerated (inflationary) phase of the very early Universe. A conceptual problem arises due to the fact that the primordial fluctuations are quantum, while the standard scenario of structure formation deals with classical fluctuations. In this essay we present a concise summary of the physics describing the quantum-to-classical transition. We first discuss the observational indistinguishability between classical and quantum correlation functions in the closed system approach (pragmatic view). We then present the open system approach with environment-induced decoherence. We finally discuss the question of the fluctuations' entropy for which, in principle, the concrete mechanism leading to decoherence possesses observational relevance.

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