arXivDaily arXiv每日学术速递 周一至周五更新
arXiv 2107.04342gr-qc
收藏

暴胀子驱动演化中的量子涨落和半经典性

Quantum fluctuations and semiclassicality in an inflaton-driven evolution

David Brizuela, Tomasz Pawlowski

摘要:

本文应用量子系统的半经典描述,在几何动力学的量子框架下,研究了具有二次暴胀子势的暴胀宇宙的宇宙学模型的动力学。系统的分析,特别是对暴胀和后暴胀时期的分析,揭示了几个令人惊讶的和违反直觉的特征:$(i)$在暴胀期间,宇宙的体积迅速扩大,导致在暴胀结束时出现显著的相对变化; $(ii)$尽管如此,量子演化仍然可以用半经典方法高精度地描述; $(iii)$此外,在后暴胀时期,随着包含的量子修正阶数的增加,量子轨迹接近经典轨迹,并且仅包含二阶修正的描述实际上是最不准确的。后者的结果是,量子方差的影响被高阶量子校正所抵消。

英文摘要:

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 analysis, focusing in particular on the inflationary and post-inflationary epochs, revealed several surprising and counterintuitive features: $(i)$ during inflation the universe rapidly spreads out in volume which leads to significant relative variance by the end of inflation; $(ii)$ despite that, the quantum evolution can still be described to high accuracy by semiclassical methods; $(iii)$ moreover, in the post-inflationary epoch, as the order of included quantum corrections increases, the quantum trajectory approaches the classical one and the description involving second-order corrections only is actually the least accurate there. The consequence of the latter is that the effects of the quantum variances are washed out by the higher-order quantum corrections.

机构、总结、中文摘要均由AI分析而来,可能存在错误,请以论文正文为准。

↑