Cosmological decoherence from thermal gravitons

Abstract We study the effects of gravitationally-driven decoherence on tunneling processes associated with false vacuum decays, such as the Coleman-De Luccia instanton. We compute the thermal graviton-induced decoherence rate for a wave function describing a perfect fluid of nonzero energy density i...

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Main Authors: Ning Bao, Aidan Chatwin-Davies, Jason Pollack, Grant N. Remmen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2020-08-01
Series:Journal of High Energy Physics
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP08(2020)065