Quantum corrections to cosmic perturbations for a bouncing background
Abstract
We compute second-order quantum dispersions and correlations corrections, within an effective framework describing a single scalar perturbation mode propagating on a bouncing Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC) background. Using an effective quantization approach in which quantum moments extend the classical phase space as new dynamical degrees of freedom, and incorporating the cosmic bounce through holonomy corrections in the μ0 scheme, we derive a coupled set of effective equations of motion for the expectation values and second-order quantum moments of both the gravitational and scalar sectors evolving with respect to a clock scalar field. Within the test-field approximation and for a vanishing scalar potential, the quantum moment equations reduce to a third-order ordinary differential equation for the mean squared deviation Gvv of the Mukhanov--Sasaki variable in a de~Sitter background with LQC bounce. Treating the effect of bounce as a perturbation of the solution, we construct the corresponding correction to the dimensionless curvature power spectrum. The leading correction is suppressed by the sixth power of the Planck length producing a scale-dependent enhancement δPR ∝ (k ℓPl)6 that modifies the spectral index by δns ∼ 6(k ℓPl)6≪ 1 for all cosmologically observable modes, in full consistency with current observational constraints. Numerical evolution of the full coupled system reveals a conditional ultraviolet regularization of the bounce-induced spectrum: the gravitational quantum moments generate a damping mechanism that suppresses the scalar perturbation amplitude after the bounce. Including cross-sector quantum correlations amplifies perturbation modes and introduces numerical instabilities at high wavenumbers, signaling the limits of the second-order truncation in the ultraviolet.
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BibTeX
@misc{hernandezhernandez2026quantum,
title = {{Quantum corrections to cosmic perturbations for a bouncing background}},
author = {Héctor Hernández-Hernández and Hugo A. Morales-Técotl and Gustavo Sánchez-Herrera},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2605.16592},
eprint = {2605.16592},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16592},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Quantum corrections to cosmic perturbations for a bouncing background
AU - Héctor Hernández-Hernández
AU - Hugo A. Morales-Técotl
AU - Gustavo Sánchez-Herrera
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/09
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2605.16592
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.16592
AB - We compute second-order quantum dispersions and correlations corrections, within an effective framework describing a single scalar perturbation mode propagating on a bouncing Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC) background. Using an effective quantization approach in which quantum moments extend the classical phase space as new dynamical degrees of freedom, and incorporating the cosmic bounce through holonomy corrections in the μ_0 scheme, we derive a coupled set of effective equations of motion for the expectation values and second-order quantum moments of both the gravitational and scalar sectors evolving with respect to a clock scalar field. Within the test-field approximation and for a vanishing scalar potential, the quantum moment equations reduce to a third-order ordinary differential equation for the mean squared deviation G^vv of the Mukhanov--Sasaki variable in a de~Sitter background with LQC bounce. Treating the effect of bounce as a perturbation of the solution, we construct the corresponding correction to the dimensionless curvature power spectrum. The leading correction is suppressed by the sixth power of the Planck length producing a scale-dependent enhancement δP_R ∝ (k ℓ_Pl)^6 that modifies the spectral index by δn_s ∼ 6(k ℓ_Pl)^6≪ 1 for all cosmologically observable modes, in full consistency with current observational constraints. Numerical evolution of the full coupled system reveals a conditional ultraviolet regularization of the bounce-induced spectrum: the gravitational quantum moments generate a damping mechanism that suppresses the scalar perturbation amplitude after the bounce. Including cross-sector quantum correlations amplifies perturbation modes and introduces numerical instabilities at high wavenumbers, signaling the limits of the second-order truncation in the ultraviolet.
ER -