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At the end of inflation, dynamical instability can rapidly deposit the energy of homogeneous cold inflaton into excitations of other fields. This process, known as preheating, is rather violent, inhomogeneous and non-linear, and has to be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-27 Andrei V. Frolov

We make use of possible high energy correction to the Friedmann equation to implement the bounce and study the behavior of massive scalar field before and after bounce semianalytically and numerically. We find that the slow-roll inflation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 Yun-Song Piao , Yuan-Zhong Zhang

We discuss the spectrum of scalar density perturbations from warm inflation when the friction coefficient $\Gamma$ in the inflaton equation is dependent on the inflaton field. The spectral index of scalar fluctuations depends on a new…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Lisa M. H. Hall , Ian G. Moss , Arjun Berera

We generalize the formalism proposed by Dalibard, Dupont-Roc, and Cohen-Tannoudji [the DDC formalism] in the fourth order for two atoms in interaction with scalar fields in vacuum to a thermal bath at finite temperature $T$, and then…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-22 Shijing Cheng , Wenting Zhou , Hongwei Yu

We use non-equilibrium dynamical mean-field theory to demonstrate the existence of a critical interaction in the real-time dynamics of the Hubbard model after an interaction quench. The critical point is characterized by fast thermalization…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-09-02 Martin Eckstein , Marcus Kollar , Philipp Werner

We revisit the small field Coleman-Weinberg (CW) inflation, which has the following two problems. First, the smallness of the slow roll parameter $\epsilon$ requires the inflation scale to be very low. Second, the spectral index $n_s…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-05 Satoshi Iso , Kazunori Kohri , Kengo Shimada

We consider a universe in which inflation commences because of a positive cosmological constant, the effect of which is progressively screened by the interaction between virtual gravitons that become trapped in the expansion of spacetime.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 N. C. Tsamis , R. P. Woodard

Conditions are obtained for the existence of a warm inflationary attractor in the system of equations describing an inflaton coupled to radiation. These conditions restrict the temperature dependence of the dissipative terms and the size of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-07-13 Ian G Moss , Chun Xiong

In cosmological scenarios with thermal inflation, extra eras of moduli matter domination, thermal inflation and flaton matter domination exist between primordial inflation and the radiation domination of Big Bang nucleosynthesis. During…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-06 Sungwook E. Hong , Hyung-Joo Lee , Young Jae Lee , Ewan D. Stewart , Heeseung Zoe

In this note we point out that, contrary to the standard point of view, slow roll inflation is due to high gravitational friction. We show that the requirement of slow roll coincides with the requirement of a flat scalar field potential in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-07 Cristiano Germani

Usually inflation ends either by a slow rolling of the inflaton field, which gradually becomes faster and faster, or by a first-order phase transition. We describe a model where inflation ends in a different way, due to a very rapid rolling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Andrei Linde

Using the constant-roll approach, DBI inflationary scenario will be studied and it is sought to compare the result with observational data. By considering the cosmological perturbations of the model, it is realized that some extra terms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-12 Abolhassan Mohammadi , Tayeb Golanbari , Khaled Saaidi

A scalar field equivalent to a non-ideal "dark energy fluid" obeying a Shan-Chen-like equation of state is used as the background source of a flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmological spacetime to describe the inflationary epoch of our…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Donato Bini , Andrea Geralico , Daniele Gregoris , Sauro Succi

We study an inflation model with a flat scalar potential supported by observations and find that slow-roll inflation can emerge after a quasi-cyclic phase of the Universe, where it undergoes repeated expansions and contractions for a finite…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-16 Hiroki Matsui , Alexandros Papageorgiou , Fuminobu Takahashi , Takahiro Terada

The zero temperature relaxational dynamics of a particle in a short range correlated random potential is addressed. We derive a set of "two-times" mean-field dynamical equations, accounting for a possible mean displacement of the particle…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Fabrice Thalmann

We discuss how dissipative effects and the presence of a thermal radiation bath, which are inherent characteristics of the warm inflation dynamics, can evade the recently proposed Swampland conjectures. Different forms of dissipation terms,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-18 Meysam Motaharfar , Vahid Kamali , Rudnei O. Ramos

To understand mechanisms leading to inflation and late acceleration of the Universe it is important to see how one or a set of quantum fields may evolve such that the classical energy-momentum tensor behave similar to a cosmological…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-17 Houri Ziaeepour

We analyze the many-particle Schrodinger equation for fermions in a thermal ensemble by introducing an exponential operator expansion, defined in the context of thermofield dynamics. The expansion is optimized variationally at each time…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-10 Edward B. Baker

The hybrid model with a scalar "inflaton" field coupled to a "Higgs" field with a broken symmetry potential is one of the promising models for inflation and (p)reheating after inflation. We consider the nonequilibrium evolution of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Jurgen Baacke , Andreas Heinen

We present simulations of non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum field theories on digital quantum computers. As a representative example, we consider the Schwinger model, a 1+1 dimensional U(1) gauge theory, coupled through a Yukawa-type…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-19 Wibe A. de Jong , Kyle Lee , James Mulligan , Mateusz Płoskoń , Felix Ringer , Xiaojun Yao