COSMOLOGICAL PARTICLE CREATION: FLUCTUATIONS AND AN ENSEMBLE PICTURE

DOI10.1142/S0218271808013935MaRDI QIDQ3630982zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Ali Kaya

Publication date 5 June 2009

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0810.3060

zbMATH Keywords

particle creationcurved backgroundsensemble of space-timesquantum field theory on time-dependentreheating process after inflation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to relativity and gravitational theory (83-02)

Abstract: We point out that in the context of quantum fields in time dependent classical backgrounds, the number of created particles with a given momentum largely deviates about its mean value. Since the corresponding Fourier modes are nonlocal, this deviation shows that the expectation value of the number operator can only make sense in an ensemble of spacetimes. Using a complete orthonormal family of localized wave packets, we show how an ensemble interpretation can be given to cosmological particle creation in local terms. The reheating process following inflation is reexamined in the light of this construction.

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