13–17 Jul 2026
ICRANet, Pescara, Italy
Europe/Rome timezone

Indications of relevant quantum corrections for cosmological parameters from unimodular quantum cosmology

13 Jul 2026, 17:45
15m
ICRANet, Pescara, Italy

ICRANet, Pescara, Italy

Piazza della Repubblica, 10, Pescara, Italy

Speaker

Dr Natascha Riahi (University of Vienna)

Description

Providing a natural time, unimodular quantum cosmology admits the description of quantum dynamics by a Schrödinger like equation for the wavefunction of the universe. The interplay of growing uncertainties and deviations from classical orbits yields late-time correction terms for the Hubble parameter and the matter density. These quantum correction terms are induced by quantum uncertainties that are proven to accumulate with time if specific conditions on the trajectories of the corresponding classical dynamical system apply. The explicit calculation of the expectation value of the Hubble parameter for a quantum analogue of a de-Sitter universe gives a first hint which kind of quantum corrections can be expected for the cosmological standard model.

Author

Dr Natascha Riahi (University of Vienna)

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