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Primordial black holes as dark matter may be generated in single-field models of inflation thanks to the enhancement at small scales of the comoving curvature perturbation. This mechanism requires leaving the slow-roll phase to enter a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-26 Matteo Biagetti , Gabriele Franciolini , Alex Kehagias , Antonio Riotto

For the past two hundred years, parametric instabilities have been studied in various physical systems, such as fluids, mechanical devices and even inflationary cosmology. It was not until a few decades ago that this subharmonic unstable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-07-06 Vitor S. Barroso , August Geelmuyden , Zack Fifer , Sebastian Erne , Anastasios Avgoustidis , Richard J. A. Hill , Silke Weinfurtner

We study the implications of deformed quantum algebras for the generation of primordial perturbations from slow-roll inflation. Specifically, we assume that the quantum commutator of the inflaton's amplitude and momentum in Fourier space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 Andrew C. Day , Iain A. Brown , Sanjeev S. Seahra

Assuming that inflation is succeeded by a phase of matter domination, which corresponds to a low temperature of reheating $T_r<10^9\rm{GeV}$, we evaluate the spectra of gravitational waves induced in the post-inflationary universe. We work…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Laila Alabidi , Kazunori Kohri , Misao Sasaki , Yuuiti Sendouda

Curvature perturbations with short wavelengths exit the Hubble horizon when the universe may contain a thermal plasma in addition to an inflaton field that drives its expansion. We solve the corresponding fluctuation-dissipation dynamics at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-05 M. Laine , S. Procacci , A. Rogelj

The primordial matter power spectrum quantifies fluctuations in the distribution of dark matter immediately following inflation. Over cosmic time, over-dense regions of the primordial density field grow and collapse into dark matter halos,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-30 Daniel Gilman , Andrew Benson , Jo Bovy , Simon Birrer , Tommaso Treu , Anna Nierenberg

One essence in capturing the history of primordial fluctuations that arise during inflation and eventually lead to formation of large scale structures in the universe, relies on quantizing general relativity coupled to a scalar field. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-07-24 Gizem Sengor

We study the generation of primordial fluctuations in pure de Sitter inflation where the quantum scalar field dynamics are governed by polymer (not Schrodinger) quantization. This quantization scheme is related to, but distinct from, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Sanjeev S. Seahra , Iain A. Brown , Golam Mortuza Hossain , Viqar Husain

We started the evolution of a flat universe from a nonsingular state called prematter which is governed by an inflationary equation of state $P=(\gamma_{p}-1)\rho$ where $\gamma_{p}$ represents the initial vacuum dominance of the universe.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Koray Karaca , Selcuk Bayin

The formation of primordial black holes in the early universe may happen through the collapse of large curvature perturbations generated during a non-attractor phase of inflation or through a curvaton-like dynamics after inflation. The fact…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-07 Gabriele Franciolini , Andrea Ianniccari , Alex Kehagias , Davide Perrone , Antonio Riotto

The primordial density fluctuation inevitably couples to all forms of matter via loop corrections and depends on the ambient conditions while inflation was ongoing. This gives us an opportunity to observe processes which were in progress…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-08-24 David Seery

In this paper we skim the true phenomenological requirements behind the concept of inflationary squeezing. We argue that all that is required is that at horizon re-entry the fluctuations form standing waves with the correct temporal phase…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-15 Giulia Gubitosi , Joao Magueijo

This thesis is dedicated to analysing the generation and destruction of quantum correlations in the context of inflationary cosmology and an experiment of 'analogue' preheating. Inflation is a phase of accelerated expansion of the Universe,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-12-04 Amaury Micheli

We investigate the global structure of inflationary universe both by analytical methods and by computer simulations of stochastic processes in the early Universe. We show that the global structure of the universe depends crucially on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-09-29 Andrei Linde , Dmitri Linde

The standard inflationary theory focuses on the freezing of super-horizon fluctuations, which generate a scale-invariant spectrum, while the sub-horizon modes are expected to remain in thermal equilibrium. Building upon recent development…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-01 Chen-Hao Wu , Xiao Liang , Ya-Peng Hu

We study the primordial tensor perturbation produced from the double inflationary scenario with an intermediate break stage. Because of the transitions, the power spectrum deviates from the vacuum one and there will appear oscillatory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-07-08 Shi Pi , Misao Sasaki , Ying-li Zhang

We consider the description of cosmological dynamics from the onset of inflation by a perfect fluid whose parameters must be consistent with the strength of the enhanced quantum loop effects that can arise during inflation. The source of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-14 N. C. Tsamis , R. P. Woodard

This article is based on the Planckon densely piled vacuum model and the principle of cosmology. With the Planck era as initial conditions and including the early inflation, we have solved the Einstein-Friedmann equations to describe the…

General Physics · Physics 2014-10-28 Shun-Jin Wang

Different well-know ways to reheat the universe such as instant preheating, the creation of particles nearly or conformally coupled with gravity, or from the decay products of a curvaton field, are revisited and discussed in detail in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-20 Jaume Haro

The statistics of primordial curvature fluctuations are our window into the period of inflation, where these fluctuations were generated. To date, the cosmic microwave background has been the dominant source of information about these…