Creation of unstable particles and decoherence in semiclassical cosmology

DOI10.1023/A:1026793212170MaRDI QIDQ1808017zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Susana Landau, Fernando C. Lombardo, Mario Castagnino

Publication date 30 November 1999

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

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

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)

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.

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