Gravitational waves from inflation

MC Guzzetti, N Bartolo, M Liguori… - La Rivista del Nuovo …, 2016 - Springer
The production of a stochastic background of gravitational waves is a fundamental
prediction of any cosmological inflationary model. The features of such a signal encode …

Observational constraints on quantum decoherence during inflation

J Martin, V Vennin - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Since inflationary perturbations must generically couple to all degrees of freedom present in
the early Universe, it is more realistic to view these fluctuations as an open quantum system …

Does inflation squeeze cosmological perturbations?

I Agullo, B Bonga, PR Metidieri - Journal of Cosmology and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
There seems to exist agreement about the fact that inflation squeezes the quantum state of
cosmological perturbations and entangles modes with wavenumbers k⟶ and-k⟶ …

Discussions about the landscape of possibilities for treatments of cosmic inflation involving continuous spontaneous localization models

GR Bengochea, G León, P Pearle… - The European Physical …, 2020 - Springer
In this work we consider a wide variety of alternatives opened when applying the continuous
spontaneous localization (CSL) dynamical collapse theory to the inflationary era. The …

Observational constraints on the second-order primordial power spectrum: Exploring a Continuous Spontaneous Localization inspired inflationary model

MP Piccirilli, G León - Physics of the Dark Universe, 2024 - Elsevier
Inflation, a period of exponential expansion in the early Universe, is considered an important
part of the standard Λ CDM cosmological model, and plays a crucial role in explaining a …

Expectation of primordial gravity waves generated during inflation

G León, A Majhi, E Okon, D Sudarsky - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
The inflationary paradigm is extremely successful regarding predictions of temperature
anisotropies in the CMB. However, inflation also makes predictions for a CMB B-mode …

Constraining quantum collapse inflationary models with current data: The semiclassical approach

MP Piccirilli, G León, SJ Landau, M Benetti… - … Journal of Modern …, 2019 - World Scientific
The hypothesis of the self-induced collapse of the inflaton wave function was introduced as
a candidate for the physical process responsible for the emergence of inhomogeneity and …

Primordial power spectrum from an objective collapse mechanism: The simplest case

MM Ocampo, O Palermo, G León… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In this work we analyzed the physical origin of the primordial inhomogeneities during the
inflation era. The proposed framework is based, on the one hand, on semiclassical gravity …

Generation of inflationary perturbations in the continuous spontaneous localization model: The second order power spectrum

G León, MP Piccirilli - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
Cosmic inflation, which describes an accelerated expansion of the early Universe, yields the
most successful predictions regarding temperature anisotropies in the cosmic microwave …

[HTML][HTML] Emergent universe: tensor perturbations within the CSL framework

O Palermo, MM Ocampo, GR Bengochea… - The European Physical …, 2022 - Springer
We calculate the primordial power spectrum of tensor perturbations, within the emergent
universe scenario, incorporating a version of the Continuous Spontaneous Localization …