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The physics during the inflationary stage of the universe is of quantum nature involving extremely high energy densities. Moreover, it is out of equilibrium on a fastly expanding dynamical geometry. We complement here the 1999 Chalonge Lectures on out of equilibrium fields in self-consistent inflationary dynamics [astro-ph/0006446] investigating inflation driven by the evolution of highly excited quantum states. These states are characterized by a non-perturbatively large number of quanta in a band of momenta and with zero or nonzero expectation value of the inflaton scalar field. They represent the situation in which initially a non-perturbatively large energy density is localized in a band of high energy quantum modes and are coined tsunami-waves. The self-consistent evolution of this quantum state and the scale factor is studied analytically and numerically. It is shown that the time evolution of these quantum states lead to two consecutive stages of inflation under conditions that are the quantum analogue of slow-roll. The evolution of the scale factor during the first stage has new features that are characteristic of the quantum state. During this initial stage the quantum fluctuations in the highly excited band build up an effective homogeneous condensate with a non-perturbatively large amplitude as a consequence of the large number of quanta. The second stage of inflation is similar to the usual classical chaotic scenario but driven by this effective condensate. The excited quantum modes are already superhorizon in the first stage and do not affect the power spectrum of scalar perturbations. Thus, this tsunami quantum state provides a field theoretical justification for chaotic scenarios driven by a classical homogeneous scalar field of large amplitude.
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de Vega, H.J. (2001). Tsunami Inflation: Selfconsistent Quantum Dynamics. In: De Vega, H.J., Khalatnikov, I.M., Sànchez, N.G. (eds) Phase Transitions in the Early Universe: Theory and Observations. NATO Science Series, vol 40. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0997-3_2
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