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arxiv gr-qc/9806066 v1 pith:UJL2YPV5 submitted 1998-06-15 gr-qc astro-phhep-th

The Coherence of Primordial Fluctuations Produced During Inflation

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The behaviour of quantum metric perturbations produced during inflation is considered at the stage after the second Hubble radius crossing. It is shown that the classical correlation between amplitude and momentum of a perturbation mode, previously shown to emerge in the course of an effective quantum-to-classical transition, is maintained for a sufficiently long time, and we present the explicit form in which it takes place using the Wigner function. We further show with a simple diffraction experiment that quantum interference, non-expressible in terms of a classical stochastic description of the perturbations, is essentially suppressed. Rescattering of the perturbations leads to a comparatively slow decay of this correlation and to a complete stochastization of the system.

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