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Recent discoveries in the field of observational cosmology have provided increasing evidence that the Universe is undergoing a late time acceleration, which has also stimulated speculations on the nature of the dark component responsible…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Santos , J. S. Alcaniz

There is accumulating observational evidence (based on SnIa data) that the dark energy equation of state parameter $w$ may be evolving with time and crossing the phantom divide barrier $w=-1$ at recent times. The confirmation of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 L. Perivolaropoulos

We examine cyclic phantom models for the universe, in which the universe is dominated sequentially by radiation, matter, and a phantom dark energy field, followed by a standard inflationary phase. Since this cycle repeats endlessly, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Hui-Yiing Chang , Robert J. Scherrer

In this work we propose a new analytical method for determining the scalar field potential $V(\phi)$ in FRW type cosmologies containing a mixture of perfect fluid plus a quintessence scalar field. By assuming that the equation of state…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-06-23 J. A. Espichán Carrillo , J. M. Silva , J. A. S. Lima

This investigation explores using the beta function formalism to calculate analytic solutions for the observable parameters in rolling scalar field cosmologies. The beta function in this case is the derivative of the scalar $\phi$ with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 Rodger I. Thompson

Ever since the first observations that we are living in an accelerating universe, it has been asked what dark energy is. There are various explanations all of which with have various draw backs or inconsistencies. Here we show that using a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-02 Christian G. Boehmer , James Burnett

We give a full investigation on the dynamics of power-law kinetic quintessence $L(X, \phi)=V(\phi)(-X+X^2)$ by considering the potential related parameter $\Gamma$($=\frac{V V''}{V'^2}$) as a function of another potential parameter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Wei Fang , Hong Tu , Ying Li , Jiasheng Huang , Chenggang Shu

We use computer simulation to investigate the topology of the potential energy $V(\{{\bf R}\})$ and to search for doublewell potential's (DWP) in a model glass . By a sequence of Newtonian and dissipative dynamics we find different minima…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Demichelis , G. Viliani , G. Ruocco

A class of dynamical dark energy models, dubbed Spinor Quintom, can be constructed by a spinor field $\psi$ with a nontraditional potential. We find that, if choosing suitable potential, this model is able to allow the equation-of-state to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Yi-Fu Cai , Jing Wang

We place observational constraints on a dark energy (DE) model in which a quintessence scalar field $\phi$ is coupled to dark matter (DM) through momentum and energy exchanges.The momentum transfer is weighed by an interaction between the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-12 Xiaolin Liu , Shinji Tsujikawa , Kiyotomo Ichiki

WWe investigate the current viability of a well-known coupled dark energy scenario in which cold dark matter (DM) interacts with a spin-0 dark energy component through a non-trivial field dependence of the DM mass. This ultra-light scalar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-22 Adrià Gómez-Valent , Ziyang Zheng , Luca Amendola

Rolling tachyon field models are among the candidates suggested as explanations for the recent acceleration of the Universe. In these models the field is expected to interact with gauge fields and lead to variations of the fine-structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-28 C. J. A. P. Martins , F. M. O. Moucherek

The nature of dark energy is a mystery to us. This paper uses the supernova data to explore the property of dark energy by some model independent methods. We first Talyor expanded the scale factor $a(t)$ to find out the deceleration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Yungui Gong

Motivated by the swampland dS conjecture, we consider a rolling scalar field as the source of dark energy. Furthermore, the swampland distance conjecture suggests that the rolling field will lead at late times to an exponentially light…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Prateek Agrawal , Georges Obied , Cumrun Vafa

We propose a new equation of state for the Dark Energy component of the Universe. It is modeled on the equation of state $p=w(\rho-\rho_{*})$ which can describe a liquid, for example water. We show that its energy density naturally…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard Holman , Siddartha Naidu

We discuss the general dynamical behaviors of quintessence field, in particular, the general conditions for tracking and thawing solutions are discussed. We explain what the tracking solutions mean and in what sense the results depend on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-03-26 Yungui Gong

We investigate the quintom model of dark energy in the generalized case where the corresponding canonical and phantom fields possess O($N$) symmetries. Assuming exponential potentials we find that this O$(N)$ quintom paradigm exhibits novel…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 M. R. Setare , E. N. Saridakis

A review on spatially flat D-dimensional Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) model of the universe has been performed. Some standard parameterizations of the equation of state parameter of the Dark Energy models are proposed and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-26 Tanwi Bandyopadhyay , Ujjal Debnath

The new Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) DR2 results have strengthened the possibility that dark energy is dynamical, i.e., it has evolved over the history of the Universe. One simple, but theoretically well motivated and widely…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-14 Yashar Akrami , George Alestas , Savvas Nesseris

Slow-roll inflation is studied as an effective field theory.We find as consistent form of the inflaton potential V(phi)=N M^4 w(phi/[sqrt{N}M_P]) where phi is the inflaton field, M the inflation energy scale, M_P the Planck mass, and N~50…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 D. Boyanovsky , H. J. de Vega , N. G. Sanchez