Status | Confirmed |
Seminar Series | APC-TH |
Subjects | hep-th |
Date | Tuesday 19 September 2017 |
Time | 14:00 |
Institute | APC |
Seminar Room | 483A - Malevitch |
Speaker's Last Name | Vennin |
Speaker's First Name | Vincent |
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Speaker's Institution | APC |
Title | Stochastic Inflation and Primordial Black Holes |
Abstract | In the inflationary paradigm, the transition from quantum fluctuations to classical but stochastic density perturbations plays an important role. In particular, it implies that the open quantum system comprising the super-Hubble degrees of freedom can be described with a classical stochastic theory, the stochastic inflation formalism. In this framework, the short-wavelength quantum fluctuations act as a classical noise on the dynamics of the super-Hubble scales. I will explain which quantum backreaction signatures are left by this effect on the correlation functions of primordial cosmological perturbations. I will discuss the conditions under which these can be large even at sub-Planckian energy, and I will explain which prospects it opens for probing quantum gravity effects on inflationary dynamics. As an application, I will show how the formation of primordial black holes formation from inflation is dominated by these stochastic effects. |
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