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A new statistical approach is presented to study the thermal instability process of optically thin unmagnetized plasma. In this approach the time evolution of mass distribution function over temperature is calculated. This function…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. F. Illarionov , I. V. Igumenshchev

We clarify the way in which cosmological perturbations of quantum origin, produced during inflation, assume classical properties. Two features play an important role in this process: First, the dynamics of fluctuations which are presently…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-10-26 C. Kiefer , D. Polarski

I consider the generic model independent predictions of the theory of quantum cosmological perturbations. To describe the stage of cosmic inflation, where these perturbations are amplified, the hydrodynamical approch is used. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Viatcheslav Mukhanov

Within a broad class of inflationary models we critically analyze the way initial quantum fluctuations on a new-physics hypersurface (NPH) affect standard predictions for large-scale cosmological perturbations. We find that these so-called…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 V. Bozza , M. Giovannini , G. Veneziano

Much of modern cosmology relies on the Cosmological Principle, the assumption that the Universe is isotropic and homogeneous on sufficiently large scales, but it remains worthwhile to examine cosmological models that violate this principle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-01 Ananda F. Smith , Craig J. Copi , Glenn D. Starkman

The stochastic thermodynamics provides a framework for the description of systems that are out of thermodynamic equilibrium. It is based on the assumption that the elementary constituents are acted by random forces that generate a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-26 Mário J. de Oliveira

We regard the background of space-time as a physical system composed of discrete volume elements at the Planck scale and get the internal energy of space-time by Debye model. A temperature-dependent minimum energy limit of the particles is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-03 Qi-Qi Fan , Cong Li , Hao-Ran Zhang , Peng-Zhang He , Jian-Bo Deng

The theoretical basis for the prediction of anisotropies in the cosmic microwave background is very well developed. Very low amplitude density and temperature perturbations produce small gravitational effects, leading to an anisotropy that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. L. Wright

We find that the conditional statistics of temperature difference at fixed values of the locally averaged temperature dissipation rate in turbulent convection become Gaussian in the regime where the mixing dynamics is expected to be driven…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Emily S. C. Ching , K. L. Chau

In the present work, we analyze the evolution of the scalar and tensorial perturbations and the quantities relevant for the physical description of the Universe, as the density contrast of the scalar perturbations and the gravitational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-01 R. C. Freitas , S. V. B. Gonçalves

The quantum fluctuations of the geodesic deviation equation in a flat background spacetime are discussed. We calculate the resulting mean squared fluctuations in the relative velocity and separation of test particles. The effect of these…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-10-10 H. S. Vieira , L. H. Ford , V. B. Bezerra

Recent experimental results point to the existence of coherent quantum phenomena in systems made of a large number of particles, despite the fact that for many-body systems the presence of decoherence is hardly negligible and emerging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-21 F. Benatti , F. Carollo , R. Floreanini , H. Narnhofer

In generic models of cosmological inflation, quantum fluctuations strongly influence the spacetime metric and produce infinitely many regions where the end of inflation (reheating) is delayed until arbitrarily late times. The geometry of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergei Winitzki

It has recently been speculated that the end state of a collapsing universe is a tachyonic big crunch. The time reversal of this process would be the emergence of an expanding universe from a tachyonic big bang. In this framework, we study…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Robert H. Brandenberger , Andrew R. Frey , Sugumi Kanno

Multibubble solutions for a cosmological model which lead to thermal inflationary states due to a semi-classical tunneling of gravity are calculated.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Horwitz , O. Fonarev

Spatially homogeneous and isotropic cosmological models, with a perfect fluid matter source and non-vanishing cosmological constant, are studied. The equations governing linear perturbations of the space-time and the variation of energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Zoltán Perjés , Mátyás Vasúth , Viktor Czinner , Daniel Eriksson

Cosmological perturbations are considered in $f(T)$ and in scalar-torsion $f(\varphi)T$ teleparallel models of gravity. Full sets of linear perturbation equations are accurately derived and analysed at the relevant limits. Interesting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-11 Alexey Golovnev , Tomi Koivisto

We generalize a recently proposed mechanism for the origin of primordial metric perturbations in inflationary models. Quantum fluctuations of light scalar fields during inflation give rise to super-horizon fluctuations of masses and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Gia Dvali , Andrei Gruzinov , Matias Zaldarriaga

Primordial fluctuations in the cosmic density are usually assumed to take the form of a Gaussian random field that evolves under the action of gravitational instability. In the early stages, while they have low amplitude, the fluctuations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Peter Watts , Peter Coles

The possibility that the universe may have a fundamental and positive cosmological constant has motivated an interesting cosmological model, in which initially the universe is in a cosmological constant sea, then the local quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Yun-Song Piao