 Classicality parameter of a cosmological perturbation (source code)

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= Classicality parameter of a cosmological perturbation

For a perturbation $X$, a normalized commutator
$$
\mathcal C=
\frac{|\langle[X,\dot X]\rangle|}
{\sqrt{\langle XX\rangle\langle\dot X\dot X\rangle}}
$$
compares its quantum commutator with its root-mean-square phase-space fluctuations. A limit $\mathcal C\to0$ signals effective classicality.

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