Cosmological constant from decoherence

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/28/12/125022zbMATH Open1219.83138arXiv1010.5331OpenAlexW3099244513MaRDI QIDQ3086972FDOQ3086972

Friedemann Queisser, Claus Kiefer, A. A. Starobinsky

Publication date: 1 August 2011

Published in: Classical and Quantum Gravity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We address the issue why a cosmological constant (dark energy) possesses a small positive value instead of being zero. Motivated by the cosmic landscape picture, we mimic the dark energy by a scalar field with potential wells and show that other degrees of freedom interacting with it can localize this field by decoherence in one of the wells. Dark energy can then acquire a small positive value. We also show that the additional degrees of freedom enhance the tunneling rate between the wells. The consideration is performed in detail for the case of two wells and then extended to a large number of wells.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1010.5331

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometry and quantization, symplectic methods (81S10) Macroscopic interaction of the gravitational field with matter (hydrodynamics, etc.) (83C55) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Astrophysical cosmology (85A40)

Cited In (8)

• Mechanism for a decaying cosmological constant
• Cosmological decoherence from thermal gravitons
• Observational constraints on models of the universe with time variable gravitational and cosmological constants along MOG
• Indirect detection of cosmological constant from interacting open quantum system
• Quantum fluctuations and semiclassicality in an inflaton-driven evolution
• Interacting dark energy and its implications for unified dark sector
• Dark energy from entanglement entropy
• The self-induced approach to decoherence in cosmology

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