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Time, (Inverse) Temperature and Cosmological Inflation as Entanglement

  • Vlatko VedralEmail author
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Abstract

We present arguments to the effect that time and temperature can be viewed as a form of quantum entanglement. Furthermore, if temperature is thought of as arising from the quantum mechanical tunneling probability this then offers us a way of dynamically “converting” time into temperature based on the entanglement between the transmitted and reflected modes. We then show how similar entanglement-based logic can be applied to the dynamics of cosmological inflation and discuss the possibility of having observable effects of the early gravitational entanglement at the level of the universe.

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03.67.Mn 03.65.Ud 
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Acknowledgements

The author acknowledges funding from the National Research Foundation (Singapore), the Ministry of Education (Singapore), the EPSRC (UK), the Templeton Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, the Oxford Martin School, the Oxford Fell Fund and the European Union (the EU Collaborative Project TherMiQ, Grant Agreement 618074).

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Clarendon LaboratoryUniversity of OxfordOxfordUK
  2. 2.Centre for Quantum TechnologiesNational University of SingaporeSingaporeSingapore
  3. 3.Department of PhysicsNational University of SingaporeSingaporeSingapore

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