Semi-classical predictions of cosmological wave-packets from ridge-lines

We introduce a concept of ridge-lines to investigate the semi-classical prediction from wave-packets with arbitrary width in conventional quantum mechanics and the Wheeler--DeWitt quantum cosmology. Two primary approaches are applied to the exact calculation of the ridge-lines, namely the contour and the stream approach. Moreover, aspects of these are discussed and compared to other scenarios and approaches, i.e. the narrow WKB wave-packets and the first-derivative test. As the main result, we show that the semi-classical predictions in toy models have more abundant solutions than in the classical theory, and most interestingly they may deviate from classical solutions due to the quantum corrections.

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