Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Theory
Scientific paper
2003-07-02
Phys.Rev. D68 (2003) 123522
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Theory
17 pages, latex, no figures; v3: added references and comments, final version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.68.123522
We show that deviations of the quantum state of the inflaton from the thermal vacuum of inflation may leave an imprint in the CMB anisotropies. The quantum dynamics of the inflaton in such a state produces corrections to the inflationary fluctuations, which may be observable. Because these effects originate from IR physics below the Planck scale, they will dominate over any trans-Planckian imprints in any theory which obeys decoupling. Inflation sweeps away these initial deviations and forces its quantum state closer to the thermal vacuum. We view this as the quantum version of the cosmic no-hair theorem. Such imprints in the CMB may be a useful, independent test of the duration of inflation, or of significant features in the inflaton potential about 60 e-folds before inflation ended, instead of an unlikely discovery of the signatures of quantum gravity. The absence of any such substructure would suggest that inflation lasted uninterrupted much longer than ${\cal O}(100)$ e-folds.
Kaloper Nemanja
Kaplinghat Manoj
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