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We evaluated the scattering amplitude of neutral scalar particles at one-loop order in the context of effective field theory of quantum gravity in the presence of a cosmological constant. Our study suggests that quantum gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-12-02 A. C. Lehum

First-order quantum correction to the Larmor radiation is investigated on the basis of the scalar QED on a homogeneous background of time-dependent electric field, which is a generalization of a recent work by Higuchi and Walker so as to be…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-03-23 Kazuhiro Yamamoto , Gen Nakamura

We compute the one-loop renormalization group equations for Standard Model Higgs inflation. The calculation is done in the Einstein frame, using a covariant formalism for the multi-field system. All counterterms, and thus the betafunctions,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-04-20 Damien P. George , Sander Mooij , Marieke Postma

We revisit the issue on signatures of pre-inflationary background anisotropy by considering the quantization of a massless and minimally coupled scalar field in an axially symmetric Kasner background, mimicking cosmological perturbations.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-03-29 Hyeong-Chan Kim , Masato Minamitsuji

Recent Planck results motivated us to use non-Bunch-Davies vacuum. In this paper, we use the excited-de Sitter mode as non-linear initial states during inflation to calculate the corrected spectra of the initial fluctuations of the scalar…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-07 E. Yusofi , M. Mohsenzadeh

We discuss a new scenario for early cosmology, when inflationary de Sitter phase dynamically emergent. This genuine quantum effect occurs as a result of dynamics of the topologically nontrivial sectors in a (conjectured) strongly coupled…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-13 Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

We study the back-reaction of a quantum scalar field on anti-de Sitter (AdS) space-time. The renormalized expectation value of the stress-energy tensor operator for a massless, conformally-coupled quantum scalar field on global AdS…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-09 Jacob C. Thompson , Elizabeth Winstanley

We investigate the one-loop quantum correction to the power spectrum of primordial curvature perturbations in the ultra-slow-roll (USR) inflationary scenario, incorporating the backreaction effect from curvature perturbations. In the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-30 Cheng-Jun Fang , Zhen-Hong Lyu , Chao Chen , Zong-Kuan Guo

We calculate the first quantum gravitational correction term to the trace anomaly in De Sitter space from the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. This is obtained through an expansion of the full wave functional for gravity and a conformally coupled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Claus Kiefer

Loop corrections to primordial correlation functions are unavoidable due to the non-linear nature of gravity. Previous works have established a robust framework for computing the renormalised one-loop power spectra of scalar and tensor…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-13 Matteo Braglia , Sebastián Céspedes , Lucas Pinol

We study the backreaction of superhorizon fluctuations of a light quantum scalar field on a classical de Sitter geometry by means of the Wilsonian renormalisation group. This allows us to treat the gravitationally amplified fluctuations in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-16 Gabriel Moreau , Julien Serreau

We investigate a model of inflationary cosmology where the minimally coupled scalar field theory is modified by additional correction terms. Among the most general ten correction terms remarked by Weinberg in context of effective field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-18 Chae-min Yun

We investigate a realistic non-supersymmetric hybrid inflation model incorporating right-handed neutrinos and assess its viability in light of recent cosmological observations. At tree level, the inflaton potential yields a blue-tilted…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-14 Waqas Ahmed , Saleh O. Allehabi , Mansoor Ur Rehman

To model a realistic situation for the beginning we consider massive real scalar $\phi^4$ theory in a (1+1)-dimensional asymptotically static Minkowski spacetime with an intermediate stage of expansion. To have an analytic headway we assume…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-28 Emil T. Akhmedov , Francesco Bascone

We consider cosmological inflation generated by a scalar field slowly rolling off from a de Sitter maximum of its potential. The models belong to the class of hilltop models and represent the most general model of this kind in which the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-05 Mariano Cadoni , Edgardo Franzin , Salvatore Mignemi

We discuss how the non-minimal coupling $\xi \phi^2 R$ between the inflaton and the Ricci scalar affects predictions of single field inflation models in Palatini formalism. To transition radiation dominated era, the inflaton field $\phi$…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-26 Nilay Bostan

We study the backreaction of gravitationally amplified quantum fluctuations of scalar fields on a classical de Sitter geometry. We formulate the problem in the framework of the Wilsonian renormalisation group, which allows us to treat the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-01-30 G. Moreau , J. Serreau

We study the generation of primordial perturbations in a (single-field) slow-roll inflationary universe. In momentum space, these (Gaussian) perturbations are characterized by a zero mean and a non-zero variance $\Delta^2(k, t)$. However,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Ivan Agullo , Jose Navarro-Salas , Gonzalo J. Olmo , Leonard Parker

We study the non-equilibrium dynamics of a system of coupled scalar fields in a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) universe. We consider the evolution of spatially homogeneous "classical" fields and of their quantum fluctuations including the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 Jurgen Baacke , Laura Covi , Nina Kevlishvili

The goal of this message is to calculate radiative corrections to the Sommerfeld fine structure constant in the framework of a new QED in which particles are described by bilocal fields. The bare constant is 1/136 where 136 is a dimension…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. S. Sannikov , A. A. Stanislavsky