On the quantumness of Quantum cosmology | Patrick Peter (Institute D'Astrophysique de Paris)

Informações
Data do Evento: 
Tue, 03/06/2025 - 14:00 to 16:00
Tipo: 
Colloquium DFMA
Local: 
Jayme Tiomno Room
Descrição

 

Abstract: Primordial cosmological perturbations are usually considered as resulting from quantum vacuum fluctuations over a classically evolving background, a serious drawback for consistency. To address this issue, one often quantize the background as well, and then restrict attention to a single peaked wave function whose expectation value provides a semi-classical scale factor. This procedure hides the most relevant quantum properties of the background.

 

I will first summarize classical and quantum cosmology to show that the latter implies possible quantum superpositions (interference between universes!) whose effects can be measured in forthcoming observations.