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We present evidence that the simplest particle-physics scalar-field models of dynamical dark energy can be separated into distinct behaviors based on the acceleration or deceleration of the field as it evolves down its potential towards a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. R. Caldwell , Eric V. Linder

It is a known fact that a quintessence model with $w_q < -1$ fits the publicly available Super Nova (SN) type Ia data better than a model with cosmological constant or $w_q > -1$. Two types of models have this property: Scalar fields with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Houri Ziaeepour

We propose a new approach to understand hierarchy problem for cosmological constant in terms of considering noncommutative nature of space-time. We calculate that vacuum energy density of the noncommutative quantum field theories in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Xiao-Jun Wang

Despite the success of Maxwell's electromagnetism in the description of the electromagnetic interactions on small scales, we know very little about the behaviour of electromagnetic fields on cosmological distances. Thus, it has been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-07 Jose Beltran Jimenez , Antonio L. Maroto

The evolution of a flat, isotropic and homogeneous universe is studied. The background geometry in the early phases of the universe is conjectured to be filled with causal bulk viscous cosmological fluid and dark energy. The energy density…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-04-23 A. Tawfik

We show that a canonical scalar field with a phenomenological form of energy density or equivalently an equation of state parameter can provide the required transition from decelerated ($q>0$) to accelerated expansion ($q<0$) phase of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-07 Sudipta Das , Abdulla Al Mamon , Manisha Banerjee

We heal the cosmological constant problem by means of a \emph{cancellation mechanism} that adopts a phase transition during which quantum fluctuations are eliminated. To this purpose, we propose that a generalized scalar (dark) matter field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-29 Rocco D'Agostino , Orlando Luongo , Marco Muccino

The energy density of the vacuum, Lambda, is at least 60 orders of magnitude smaller than several known contributions to it. Approaches to this problem are tightly constrained by data ranging from elementary observations to precision…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Raphael Bousso

We suggest that the solution to the cosmological vacuum energy puzzle is linked to the infrared sector of the effective theory of gravity interacting with standard model fields, with QCD fields specifically. We work in the framework of low…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-12 Federico R. Urban , Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

An alternative to the postulate of dark energy required to explain the accelerated expansion of the universe is to adopt an inhomogeneous cosmological model to explain the supernovae data without dark energy. We adopt a void cosmology…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-02 J. W. Moffat

A matter-coupled scalar field model is presented in obtaining a scalar fifth force when the constraint of the current cosmological constant is satisfied. The interaction potential energy density between the scalar field and matter has a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-22 Hai-Chao Zhang

Within the quantum mechanical treatment of the decay problem one finds that at late times $t$ the survival probability of an unstable state cannot have the form of an exponentially decreasing function of time $t$ but it has an inverse…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-29 Marek Szydlowski , Aleksander Stachowski , Krzysztof Urbanowski

A sufficiently light scalar field slowly evolving in a potential can account for the dark energy that presently dominates the universe. This quintessence field is expected to couple directly to matter components, unless some symmetry of a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-09 Ewan R. M. Tarrant , Carsten van de Bruck , Edmund J. Copeland , Anne M. Green

In order to solve the fine-tuning problem of the cosmological constant, we propose a simple model with the vacuum energy non-minimally coupled to the inflaton field. In this model, the vacuum energy decays to the inflaton during…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-27 Chao-Qiang Geng , Chung-Chi Lee

The mystery of the Dark energy is not just its smallness. The extreme fine tuning of its density in the Early Universe such that it permits galaxy formation before creating a new inflationary epoch is its other unexplained aspect. Here we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Houri Ziaeepour

The $\Lambda$ Cold Dark Matter model ($\Lambda$CDM) represents the current standard model in cosmology. Within this, there is a tension between the value of the Hubble constant, $H_0$, inferred from local distance indicators and the angular…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-26 Edvard Mörtsell , Suhail Dhawan

We argue for a model of low-energy correction to the inflationary potential as caused by the gauge-mediated breaking down the supersymmetry at the scale of $\mu_\textsc{x}\sim 10^4$ GeV, that provides us with the seesaw mechanism of thin…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-07 V. V. Kiselev , S. A. Timofeev

In this work we suggest (in a formal analogy with Linde chaotic inflation scenario) simple dynamical model of the dark energy or cosmological constant. Concretely, we suggest a Lagrangian dependent of Universe scale factor and scalar field…

General Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 Vladan Pankovic

We propose a revised formulation of General Relativity for cosmological settings, in which the Einstein constant varies with the energy density of the Universe. We demonstrate that this modification has only phenomenological impact of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-28 Giovanni Montani , Giulia Maniccia , Elisa Fazzari , Alessandro Melchiorri

Many candidate models for dark energy are based on the existence of a classical scalar field. In the context of Quantum Field Theory (QFT), we briefly discus the condensation of such a field from a light quantum scalar field produced by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-12-19 Houri Ziaeepour