Requiring decohered cosmological perturbations to admit a classical P-function forces their momentum variance above the vacuum value, and demanding a linear gravitational potential at reheating bounds that variance by ~10^14, excluding thermal decoherence states and restricting amplitude-basis model
Entropy of a Classical Stochastic Field and Cosmological Perturbation
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We propose a general definition of nonequilibrium entropy of a classical stochastic field. As an example of particular interest in cosmology we apply this definition to compute the entropy of density perturbations in an inflationary Universe. On the scales of structures in the Universe, the entropy of density perturbations dominates over the statistical fluctuations of the entropy of cosmic microwave photons, indicating the relevance of the entropy of density fluctuations for structure formation.
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A Landscape of Cosmological Decoherence
Requiring decohered cosmological perturbations to admit a classical P-function forces their momentum variance above the vacuum value, and demanding a linear gravitational potential at reheating bounds that variance by ~10^14, excluding thermal decoherence states and restricting amplitude-basis model