Entropy production in inflation from spectator loops
arXiv:1907.13564 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.083505
Abstract
Perturbations in cosmic microwave background (CMB) photons and large scale structure of the universe are sourced primarily by the curvature perturbation which is widely believed to be produced during inflation. In this paper we present a 2-field inflationary model in which the inflaton couples bi-quadratically to a spectator field. We show that the spectator induces a rapid growth of the momentum of the curvature perturbation and the associated Gaussian van Neumann entropy during inflation such that the initial conditions at the end of inflation are substantially different from the standard ones. Consequently, one ought to reconsider the kinetic equations describing evolution of the photon, dark matter and baryonic fluids in radiation and matter eras and take account of the fact that the curvature perturbation and its canonical momentum are two {\it a priory} independent stochastic fields. We also briefly analyze possible imprints on the CMB temperature fluctuations from the more general inflationary scenario which contains light spectator fields coupled to the inflaton.
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