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Inflation and squeezed quantum states | Andreas Albrecht
; Pedro Ferreira
; Michael Joyce
; Tomislav Prokopec
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1 Mar 1993 | Journal: | Phys.Rev. D50 (1994) 4807-4820 | Subject: | astro-ph gr-qc hep-ph | Abstract: | The inflationary cosmology is analyzed from the point of view of squeezed quantum states. As noted by Grishchuk and Sidorov, the amplification of quantum fluctuations into macroscopic perturbations which occurs during cosmic inflation is a process of quantum squeezing. We carefully develop the squeezed state formalism and derive the equations that govern the evolution of a gaussian initial state. We derive the power spectrum of density perturbations for a simple inflationary model and discuss its features. We conclude that the squeezed state formalism provides an interesting framework within which to study the amplification process, but,in disagreement with the claims of Grishchuk and Sidorov, that it does {em not} provide us with any new physical results. | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/9303001 | Other source: | [GID 85056] pmid10018131 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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