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We construct exact nonstatic nonhomogeneous spherically symmetric solutions in the theory of gravity with a scalar field possessing the exponential potential. The solution of particular interest corresponds to the scalar field with negative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sergey V. Sushkov , Yuan-Zhong Zhang

We explore how thermal fluctuations affect the mechanics of thin amorphous spherical shells. In flat membranes with a shear modulus, thermal fluctuations increase the bending rigidity and reduce the in-plane elastic moduli in a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-18 Andrej Kosmrlj , David R. Nelson

In the context of field theory in curved spacetimes, it is known that suitable background spacetime geometries can trigger instabilities of fields, leading to exponential growth of their (quantum and classical) fluctuations --- a phenomenon…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-18 C. C. H. Ribeiro , D. A. T. Vanzella

The decay timescales of the quasinormal modes of a massive scalar field have an intriguing behavior: they either grow or decay with increasing angular harmonic numbers $\ell$, depending on whether the mass of the scalar field is small or…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-15 Macarena Lagos , Pedro G. Ferreira , Oliver J. Tattersall

In this work, I review some aspects concerning the evolution of quantum low-energy fields in a foamlike spacetime, with involved topology at the Planck scale but with a smooth metric structure at large length scales, as follows. Quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-17 Luis J. Garay

The fundamental vacuum state of quantum fields, related to Minkowski space, produces divergent fluctuations that must be suppressed in order to bring reality to the description of physical systems. As a consequence, negative vacuum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-14 G. H. S. Camargo , V. A. De Lorenci , A. L. Ferreira Junior , C. C. H. Ribeiro

We study homogeneous and isotropic cosmologies in a Weyl spacetime. It is shown that in Weyl integrable spacetime, the corresponding scalar field may act as a phantom field. In this circumstance the Weyl field gives rise to a late…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-12 John Miritzis

A detailed comparative qualitative analysis and numerical simulation of evolution of the cosmological models based on classical and phantom scalar fields with self-action was performed. The phase portraits of the dynamic systems of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-15 Yurii Ignat'ev , Alexander Agathonov , Irina Kokh

We analyze the nonlinear evolution of spherically symmetric wormhole solutions coupled to a massless ghost scalar field using numerical methods. In a previous article we have shown that static wormholes with these properties are unstable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-25 J. A. Gonzalez , F. S. Guzman , O. Sarbach

It has been argued that the small perturbations to the homogeneous and isotropic configurations of a canonical scalar field in an expanding universe do not grow. We show that this is not true in general, and clarify the root of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-23 Miguel Alcubierre , Axel de la Macorra , Alberto Diez-Tejedor , José M. Torres

The contribution from quantum vacuum fluctuations of a real massless scalar field to the motion of a test particle that interacts with the field in the presence of a perfectly reflecting flat boundary is here investigated. There is no…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-03 G. H. Camargo , V. A. De Lorenci , C. C. H. Ribeiro , F. F. Rodrigues , M. M. Silva

The conditions under which cosmologies driven by time varying cosmological terms can be described by a scalar field coupled to a perfect fluid are discussed. An algorithm to reconstruct potentials dynamically and thermodynamically analogue…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. M. F. Maia , J. A. S. Lima

Recently, a novel phenomenon is observed for vacuum decay to proceed via classically allowed dynamical evolution from initial configurations of false vacuum fluctuations. With the help of some occasionally developed large fluctuations in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-16 Shao-Jiang Wang

Understanding mechanisms capable of altering the vacuum energy is currently of interest in field theories and cosmology. We consider an interacting scalar field and show that the vacuum energy naturally takes any value between its maximum…

General Physics · Physics 2015-08-14 Kostya Trachenko

We study the evolution of quantum fluctuations of a scalar field which is coupled to the geometry, in an exponentially expanding universe. We derive an expression for the spectrum of intrinsic perturbations, and it is shown that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Jelle Boersma

The spherical symmetry Black holes are considered in expanding background. The singularity line and the marginally trapped tube surface behavior are discussed. In particular, we address the conditions of whether a dynamical horizon forms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-12-10 J. T. Firouzjaee

We show how spatiotemporal fluctuations can induce spontaneous symmetry breaking in systems which are perfectly symmetric in the absence of fluctuations. We illustrate this in the context of the autocatalytic production of chiral…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 V. S. Gayathri , Madan Rao

We study the quantum fluctuations of scalar fields with a variable effective mass during an inflationary phase. We consider the situation where the effective mass depends on a background scalar field, which evolves during inflation from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 David Langlois , Filippo Vernizzi

The notion of vacuum fluctuations of the gravitational field plays important role in cosmology. The strong variable gravitational field of the very early Universe amplifies these fluctuations and transforms them into macroscopical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 L. P. Grishchuk

We studied the influence of a wormhole existing in the expanding Universe and passing through the horizon volume on the energy density of the Universe. The two-point correlation function of a free massless scalar field mimicking the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-06-10 Marek Rogatko , Aneta Wojnar , Bartlomiej KIczek