Time-convolutionless cosmological master equations: Late-time resummations and decoherence for non-local kernels
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| author | Brahma, Suddhasattwa Calderón-Figueroa, Jaime Luo, Xiancong |
| author_facet | Brahma, Suddhasattwa Calderón-Figueroa, Jaime Luo, Xiancong |
| contents | We revisit a simple toy model of two scalar fields in de Sitter space, playing the roles of "system" and "environment" degrees of freedom, which interact with each other. We show that there are secular divergences in physically relevant observables which arise solely from the non-Markovian part of the memory kernel, contrary to popular belief that secular growth typically comes from local terms in evolution equations. Nevertheless, we show that these terms can still be non-perturbatively resummed, using the time-convolutionless master equation formalism, which improves upon previous approximations. At the same time, there are other physical quantities in the same model that are dominated by local terms in the memory kernel. Therefore, we conclude that, for cosmological backgrounds, either the dissipation or the noise kernel can end up being dominated by non-local terms depending on the nature of the system-environment coupling. |
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| spellingShingle | Time-convolutionless cosmological master equations: Late-time resummations and decoherence for non-local kernels Brahma, Suddhasattwa Calderón-Figueroa, Jaime Luo, Xiancong High Energy Physics - Theory Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology We revisit a simple toy model of two scalar fields in de Sitter space, playing the roles of "system" and "environment" degrees of freedom, which interact with each other. We show that there are secular divergences in physically relevant observables which arise solely from the non-Markovian part of the memory kernel, contrary to popular belief that secular growth typically comes from local terms in evolution equations. Nevertheless, we show that these terms can still be non-perturbatively resummed, using the time-convolutionless master equation formalism, which improves upon previous approximations. At the same time, there are other physical quantities in the same model that are dominated by local terms in the memory kernel. Therefore, we conclude that, for cosmological backgrounds, either the dissipation or the noise kernel can end up being dominated by non-local terms depending on the nature of the system-environment coupling. |
| title | Time-convolutionless cosmological master equations: Late-time resummations and decoherence for non-local kernels |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Theory Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.12091 |