Spinodal Inflation
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2010-01-06 v1 Astrophysics
Abstract
Out-of-equilibrium, non-perturbative, quantum effects significantly modify the standard picture of inflation in a wide class of models including new, natural, and hybrid inflation. We find that the quantum evolution of a single real inflaton field may be modeled by a classical theory of two homogeneous scalar fields. We briefly discuss the important observational consequences that are expected to result.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9812476,
title = {Spinodal Inflation},
author = {D. Cormier and R. Holman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9812476},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
4 pages, 1 epsf figure