Wheeler-DeWitt equation beyond the cosmological horizon: Annihilation to nothing, infinity avoidance, and loss of quantum coherence

Abstract

We investigate the Schwarzschild-(anti) de Sitter spacetime with the anisotropic metric ansatz. The Wheeler-DeWitt equation for such a metric is solved numerically. In the presence of the cosmological constant $\Lambda$, we show that two classical wave packets can be annihilated inside the black hole horizon, i.e., the annihilation-to-nothing scenario. It is interesting that the Wheeler-DeWitt equation can be extended to the asymptotic de Sitter spacetime outside the cosmological horizon. Surprisingly, the only bounded nontrivial wave function beyond the cosmological horizon satisfies the DeWitt boundary condition, i.e., the wave function must vanish at a certain finite radius. This might be an alternative explanation to the classicalization of quantum fluctuations in the de Sitter space, where this topic is also related to decoherence.

arXiv comment10 pages, 7 figures, and comments welcome

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