Resonances in the early Universe

Abstract

In the present paper, we study a Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) quantum cosmology model with positively curved spatial sections. The matter content of the model is given by a radiation fluid, a constant vacuum energy, and an ad hoc potential. After writing the Hamiltonian of the model, we notice that the effective potential ($V_{eff}$) depends on two parameters: ${\rho }_v$, the constant vacuum energy density and $\sigma$, associated with the ad hoc potential. Depending on the values of these parameters $V_{eff}$ becomes a double barrier potential. We quantize the model and obtain the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. We solve that equation using the WKB approximation and compute the corresponding probability ($T{P}_{WKB}$) that the wavefunction of the universe tunnels through the double barrier potential $V_{eff}$. We study how $T{P}_{WKB}$ behaves as a function of the parameters ${\rho }_v$, $\sigma$ and the radiation energy $E$. We notice the occurrence of resonances in $T{P}_{WKB}$ when we vary it as a function of $E$, ${\rho }_v$ and $\sigma$. It is a very interesting phenomenon because it may cause the universe to be born with selected values of $E$, ${\rho }_v$ and $\sigma$.

The paper has 14 pages and 5 figures