A geometric landscape of mixed states for cosmological perturbations unifies decoherence models and derives non-linearity bounds that rule out decohered thermal states and limit amplitude-diagonal models to under 70 e-folds of inflation.
Classical and quantum evolution of inflationary fluctuations
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We compare the correlation functions of inflationary perturbations computed either with quantum or classical dynamics. Even if they are enforced to agree at a specific time during inflation, classical and quantum correlations will differ at the end of inflation, provided that interactions are relevant. The difference between the results of the classical and quantum computations is exponentially sensitive to the number of e-folds elapsed from the time of agreement. We illustrate this finding with the tree-level bispectrum of the primordial curvature fluctuation and the one-loop power spectrum of tensor modes. We also show that classical evolution from a finite time does not imply the appearance of poles in the scalar bispectrum.
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Classical part of 1-loop tensor power spectrum in de Sitter is IR divergent but cancels with vacuum part, enabling non-perturbative renormalization to extract unaffected physical information.
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Classical part of 1-loop tensor power spectrum in de Sitter is IR divergent but cancels with vacuum part, enabling non-perturbative renormalization to extract unaffected physical information.