Entanglement masquerading in the CMB

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2023/06/024MaRDI QIDQ6173866zbMATH OpenFDO

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Publication date 13 July 2023

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11079

zbMATH Keywords

cosmological parameters from CMBRinflationinflation and CMBR theoryquantum cosmology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Constrained dynamics, Dirac's theory of constraints (70H45) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Unified quantum theories (81V22) Quantum optics (81V80) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Methods of noncommutative geometry in general relativity (83C65) Geometrodynamics and the holographic principle (83E05) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: The simplest single-field inflation models capture all the relevant contributions to the patterns in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observed today. A key assumption in these models is that the quantum inflationary fluctuations that source such patterns are generated by a particular quantum state -- the Bunch-Davies (BD) state. While this is a well-motivated choice from a theoretical perspective, the question arises of whether current data can rule out other, also well motivated, choices of states. In particular, as we previously demonstrated in arXiv:2104.13410 [hep-th], entanglement is naturally and inevitably dynamically generated during inflation given the presence of a "rolling" spectator scalar field -- and the resulting entangled state will yield a primordial power spectrum with potentially measurable deviations compared to the canonical BD result. For this work we developed a perturbative framework to allow a systematic exploration of constraints on (or detection of) entangled states with Planck CMB data using Monte Carlo techniques. We have found that most entangled states accessible with our framework are consistent with the data. One would have to expand the framework to allow a greater variety of entangled states in order to saturate the Planck constraints and more systematically explore any preferences the data may have among the different possibilities.

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