Constraining quantum collapse inflationary models with current data: the semiclassical approach

DOI10.1142/S021827181950041XzbMATH Open1431.83195arXiv1709.06237OpenAlexW2756416329WikidataQ129005551 ScholiaQ129005551MaRDI QIDQ5217822FDOQ5217822

Authors: María Pía Piccirilli, Gabriel León, Susana Landau, Micol Benetti, Daniel Sudarsky 

Publication date: 26 February 2020

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

Abstract: The hypothesis of the self-induced collapse of the inflaton wave function was introduced as a candidate for the physical process responsible for the emergence of inhomogeneity and anisotropy at all scales. In particular, we consider different proposal for the precise form of the dynamics of the inflaton wave function: i) the GRW-type collapse schemes proposals based on spontaneous individual collapses which generate non-vanishing expectation values of various physical quantities taken as ansatz modifications of the standard inflationary scenario; ii) the proposal based on a Continuous Spontaneous Localization (CSL) type modification of the Schr"odinger evolution of the inflaton wave function, based on a natural choice of collapse operator. We perform a systematic analysis within the semi-classical gravity approximation, of the standing of those models considering a full quasi-de sitter expansion scenario. We note that the predictions for the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) temperature and polarization spectrum differ slightly from those of the standard cosmological model. We also analyse these proposals with a Bayesian model comparison using recent CMB and Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations (BAO) data. Our results show a moderate preference of the joint CMB and BAO data for one of the studied collapse schemes model over the $Lambda$CDM one, while there is no preference when only CMB data are considered. Additionally, analysis using CMB data provide the same Bayesian evidence for both the CSL and standard models, i.e. the data have not preference between the simplicity of the LCDM model and the complexity of the collapse scenario.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.06237

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zbMATH Keywords

inflationcosmological parameters from CMBphysics of early universe

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Semiclassical techniques, including WKB and Maslov methods applied to problems in quantum theory (81Q20) Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Observational and experimental questions in relativity and gravitational theory (83B05)

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