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hep-th2026
Quantum Stochastic Inflation
Robson Christie, Jaewoo Joo, Greg Kaplanek +2
We formulate stochastic inflation in an open quantum system framework. The field coarse-grained in a patch of fixed physical size, and the total momentum of that patch, form a cano…
hep-th2025
Cosmic Lockdown: When Decoherence Saves the Universe from Tunneling
Robson Christie, Jaewoo Joo, Greg Kaplanek +2
We investigate how quantum decoherence influences the tunneling dynamics of quantum fields in cosmological spacetimes. Specifically, we study a scalar field in an asymmetric double…