Time, (Inverse) Temperature and Cosmological Inflation as Entanglement
Vlatko Vedral
(Submitted on 29 Aug 2014)
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.
Comments: 8 pages, no figures
Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
Cite as: arXiv:1408.6965 [quant-ph]
(or arXiv:1408.6965v1 [quant-ph] for this version)
Submission history
From: Vlatko Vedral [view email]
[v1] Fri, 29 Aug 2014 09:47:40 GMT (14kb)
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