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Item Predictions for the Cosmic Microwave Background from an Anisotropic Quantum Bounce(American Physical Society revtex@aps.org, 2020) Agullo, I.; Olmedo, J.; Sreenath, V.We introduce an extension of the standard inflationary paradigm on which the big bang singularity is replaced by an anisotropic bounce. Unlike in the big bang model, cosmological perturbations find an adiabatic regime in the past. We show that this scenario accounts for the observed quadrupolar modulation in the temperature anisotropies of the cosmic microwave background, and we make predictions for the polarization angular correlation functions E-E, B-B, and E-B, together with temperature-polarization correlations T-B and T-E, that can be used to test our ideas. We base our calculations on the bounce predicted by loop quantum cosmology, but our techniques and conclusions apply to other bouncing models as well. © 2020 American Physical Society.Item Alleviating the Tension in the Cosmic Microwave Background Using Planck-Scale Physics(American Physical Society subs@aip.org;revtex@aps.org;prx@aps.org;prxtex@aps.org;help@aps.org;prb@aps.org, 2020) Ashtekar, A.; Gupt, B.; Jeong, D.; Sreenath, V.Certain anomalies in the CMB bring out a tension between the six-parameter flat ?CDM model and the CMB data. We revisit the PLANCK analysis with loop quantum cosmology (LQC) predictions and show that LQC alleviates both the large-scale power anomaly and the tension in the lensing amplitude. These differences arise because, in LQC, the primordial power spectrum is scale dependent for small k, with a specific power suppression. We conclude with a prediction of larger optical depth and power suppression in the B-mode polarization power spectrum on large scales. © 2020 American Physical Society.