Creation of unstable particles and decoherence in semiclassical cosmology

DOI10.1023/A:1026793212170zbMATH Open1010.83021arXivgr-qc/9811016OpenAlexW1632945499MaRDI QIDQ1808017FDOQ1808017

Authors: Susana Landau, Fernando C. Lombardo, Mario Castagnino 

Publication date: 30 November 1999

Published in: General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a simple cosmological model in order to show the importance of unstable particle creation for the validity of the semiclassical approximation. Using the mathematical structure of rigged Hilbert spaces we show that particle creation is the seed of decoherence which enables the quantum to classical transition.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9811016

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zbMATH Keywords

Wheeler-de Witt equationWigner time reversal operator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other elementary particle theory in quantum theory (81V25) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47)

Cites Work

• Quantum Fields in Curved Space
• On the consistent histories approach to quantum mechanics.
• On curved space vacua deduced from the energy-momentum tensor
• Gamow algebras
• Decoherence, correlation, and unstable quantum states in semiclassical cosmology

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• Will there be future deceleration? A study of particle creation mechanism in nonequilibrium thermodynamics

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