Cosmological evolution as squeezing: a toy model for group field cosmology

DOI10.1088/1361-6382/AABA11zbMATH Open1391.83131arXiv1712.07266OpenAlexW3099271326WikidataQ64007672 ScholiaQ64007672MaRDI QIDQ3177502FDOQ3177502

Wolfgang Wieland, Eugene Adjei, Steffen Gielen

Publication date: 26 July 2018

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

Abstract: We present a simple model of quantum cosmology based on the group field theory (GFT) approach to quantum gravity. The model is formulated on a subspace of the GFT Fock space for the quanta of geometry, with a fixed volume per quantum. In this Hilbert space, cosmological expansion corresponds to the generation of new quanta. Our main insight is that the evolution of a flat FLRW universe with a massless scalar field can be described on this Hilbert space as squeezing, familiar from quantum optics. As in GFT cosmology, we find that the three-volume satisfies an effective Friedmann equation similar to the one of loop quantum cosmology, connecting the classical contracting and expanding solutions by a quantum bounce. The only free parameter in the model is identified with Newton's constant. We also comment on the possible topological interpretation of our squeezed states. This paper can serve as an introduction into the main ideas of GFT cosmology without requiring the full GFT formalism; our results can also motivate new developments in GFT and its cosmological application.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.07266

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum cosmologysqueezed statesgroup field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

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