Cosmological consequences of initial state entanglement

DOI10.1007/JHEP11(2014)093MaRDI QIDQ271364zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Andreas Albrecht, Nadia Bolis, Richard Holman

Publication date 7 April 2016

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.6859

zbMATH Keywords

cosmology of theories beyond the SMeffective field theoriesthermal field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We explore the cosmological consequences of having the fluctuations of the inflaton field entangled with those of another scalar, within the context of a toy model consisting of non-interacting, minimally coupled scalars in a fixed de Sitter background. We find that despite the lack of interactions in the Lagrangian, the initial state entanglement modifies the mode equation for the inflaton fluctuations and thus can induce changes in cosmological observables. These effects are examined for a variety of choices of masses and we find that they can be consistent with the requirement that the back reaction of the modified state not affect the inflationary phase while still giving rise to observable effects in the power spectrum. Our results suggest that more realistic extensions of the ideas explored here beyond the simple toy model may lead to interesting observable effects.

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