The Evolution of Non-adiabatic Pressure Perturbations during Multi-field Inflation

Abstract

Non-adiabatic pressure perturbations naturally occur in models of inflation consisting of more than one scalar field. The amount of non-adiabatic pressure present at the end of inflation can have observational consequences through changes in the curvature perturbation, the generation of vorticity and subsequently the sourcing of B-mode polarisation. In this work, based on a presentation at the 13th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, we give a very brief overview of non-adiabatic pressure perturbations in multi-field inflationary models and describe our recent calculation of the spectrum of isocurvature perturbations generated at the end of inflation for different models which have two scalar fields.

arXiv comment3 pages, 1 figure, Proceedings of 13th Marcel Grossmann Meeting, Stockholm, July 2012. Numerical code available at http://pyflation.ianhuston.net