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arxiv: 1602.01216 · v2 · submitted 2016-02-03 · 🌀 gr-qc · astro-ph.CO· hep-th· quant-ph

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Inflation and the Measurement Problem

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keywords cosmologicalinflationmeasurementmodesproblemwavefunctionadiabaticanalogous
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We propose a solution to the quantum measurement problem in Inflation. Our model treats Fourier modes of cosmological perturbations as analogous to particles in a weakly-interacting Bose gas. We generalize the idea of a macroscopic wavefunction to cosmological fields, and construct a self-interaction Hamiltonian that focuses that wavefunction. By appropriately setting the coupling between modes, we obtain the standard adiabatic, scale-invariant power spectrum. Because of Central Limit Theorem (CLT), we recover a Gaussian Random Field, consistent with observations.

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