Spinodal Instabilities and the Dark Energy Problem
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-31 v1 Astrophysics
Abstract
The accelerated expansion of the Universe measured by high redshift Type Ia Supernovae observations is explained using the non-equilibrium dynamics of naturally soft boson fields. Spinodal instabilities inevitably present in such systems yield a very attractive mechanism for arriving at the required equation of state at late times, while satisfying all the known constraints on models of quintessence.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0001168,
title = {Spinodal Instabilities and the Dark Energy Problem},
author = {D. Cormier and R. Holman},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0001168},
year = {2009}
}
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6 pages, 2 figures