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Non-perturbative $\langle \phi \rangle$, $\langle \phi^2 \rangle$ and the dynamically generated scalar mass with Yukawa interaction in the inflationary de Sitter spacetime

High Energy Physics - Theory 2024-01-03 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We consider a massless minimally coupled self interacting quantum scalar field coupled to fermion via the Yukawa interaction, in the inflationary de Sitter background. The fermion is also taken to be massless and the scalar potential is taken to be a hybrid, V(ϕ)=λϕ4/4!+βϕ3/3!V(\phi)= \lambda \phi^4/4!+ \beta \phi^3/3! (λ>0\lambda >0). The chief physical motivation behind this choice of V(ϕ)V(\phi) corresponds to, apart from its boundedness from below property, the fact that shape wise V(ϕ)V(\phi) has qualitative similarity with standard inflationary classical slow roll potentials. Also, its vacuum expectation value can be negative, suggesting some screening of the inflationary cosmological constant. We choose that ϕ0\langle \phi \rangle\sim 0 at early times with respect to the Bunch-Davies vacuum, so that perturbation theory is valid initially. We consider the equations satisfied by ϕ(t)\langle \phi (t) \rangle and ϕ2(t)\langle \phi^2(t) \rangle, constructed from the coarse grained equation of motion for the slowly rolling ϕ\phi. We then compute the vacuum diagrammes of various relevant operators using the in-in formalism up to three loop, in terms of the leading powers of the secular logarithms. For a closed fermion loop, we have restricted ourselves here to only the local contribution. These large temporal logarithms are then resummed by constructing suitable non-perturbative equations to compute ϕ\langle \phi \rangle and ϕ2\langle \phi^2 \rangle. ϕ\langle \phi \rangle turns out to be at least approximately an order of magnitude less compared to the minimum of the classical potential, 3β/λ-3\beta/\lambda, owing to the strong quantum fluctuations. For ϕ2\langle \phi^2 \rangle, we have computed the dynamically generated scalar mass at late times, by taking the appropriate purely local contributions. Variations of these quantities with respect to different couplings have also been presented.

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@article{arxiv.2308.11384,
  title  = {Non-perturbative $\langle \phi \rangle$, $\langle \phi^2 \rangle$ and the dynamically generated scalar mass with Yukawa interaction in the inflationary de Sitter spacetime},
  author = {Sourav Bhattacharya and Moutushi Dutta Choudhury},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.11384},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

v2; 36pp, 11 figs.; added references, discussions and clarifications; improved presentation; accepted in JCAP