On the entropy and the density matrix of cosmological perturbations

DOI10.1088/0264-9381/15/7/010MaRDI QIDQ4699688zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors I. L. Egusquiza, M. A. Pérez Sebastián, M. A. Valle Basagoiti, Alexander Feinstein

Publication date 18 November 1999

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/9709061

zbMATH Keywords

cosmologyinflationary

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Approximation procedures, weak fields in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C25) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: We look at the transition to the semiclassical behaviour and the decoherence process for the inhomogeneous perturbations in the inflationary universe. Two different decoherence mechanisms appear: one dynamical, accompanied with a negligible, if at all, entropy gain, and the other, effectively irreversible dephasing, due to a rapid variation in time of the off-diagonal density matrix elements in the post-inflationary epoch. We thus settle the discrepancies in the entropy content of perturbations evaluated by different authors.

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