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Tensor Catalyzed Decoherence of Primordial Scalar Fluctuations
C. P. Burgess, D. Dineen, R. Holman +1
We provide the first complete calculation of the leading contribution to the decoherence of primordial fluctuations in the scalar part of the metric fluctuations within simplest, s…
Inflationary Decoherence from the Gravitational Floor
C. P. Burgess, R. Holman, Greg Kaplanek
We re-examine the decoherence rate of primordial fluctuations within minimal inflationary models, using only the gravitational interactions required for the underlying fluctuation-…
Does decoherence violate decoupling?
C. P. Burgess, Thomas Colas, R. Holman +1
Recent calculations in both flat and de Sitter spacetimes have highlighted a tension between the decoupling of high-energy physics from low-energy degrees of freedom and the expect…
Cosmic Purity Lost: Perturbative and Resummed Late-Time Inflationary Decoherence
C. P. Burgess, Thomas Colas, R. Holman +2
We compute the rate with which unobserved fields decohere other fields to which they couple, both in flat space and in de Sitter space, for spectator scalar fields prepared in thei…
Power-counting during single-field slow-roll inflation
Peter Adshead, C. P. Burgess, R. Holman +1
We elucidate the counting of the relevant small parameters in inflationary perturbation theory. Doing this allows for an explicit delineation of the domain of validity of the semi-…