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We present a quintessence model for the dark energy in which the quintessence scalar field is produced by the decay of a super heavy dark matter and gradually condensate to a classical scalar field. This model can explain both the smallness…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Houri Ziaeepour

Quintessence is often invoked to explain the universe acceleration suggested by the type Ia supernovae observations. The aim of this letter is to study the validity of using a constant equation of state for quintessence models. We shall…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-31 Elisa Di Pietro , Jacques Demaret

Recent observations seem to suggest that our Universe is accelerating implying that it is dominated by a fluid whose equation of state is negative. Quintessence is a possible explanation. In particular, the concept of tracking solutions…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Philippe Brax , Jerome Martin

In this paper, we investigate a quintessence field with an exponential potential motivated by the suggestion of time-varying dark energy from the DESI galaxy survey. Assuming a kination epoch in the early Universe, we analytically derive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-14 Naoto Maki , Kazunori Kohri

Recently it has been proposed that the main contributor to the dark energy of the Universe is a dynamical, slow evolving, spatially inhomogeneous scalar field called quintessence. We investigate the behavior of this scalar field at galactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. Matos , F. S. Guzman

In this paper we review in detail a number of approaches that have been adopted to try and explain the remarkable observation of our accelerating Universe. In particular we discuss the arguments for and recent progress made towards…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 Edmund J. Copeland , M. Sami , Shinji Tsujikawa

There is marginal evidence that the quintessential form of matter responsible for the acceleration of the universe observed today has ratio between pressure and energy density $w<-1$. Such a regime, called superacceleration, cannot be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Valerio Faraoni

The phase space analysis of cosmological parameters $\Omega_{\phi}$ and $\gamma_{\phi}$ is given. Based on this, the well-known quintessence cosmology is studied with an exponential potential $V(\phi)=V_{0}\exp(-\lambda\phi)$. Given…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-06-14 Jing-Zhao Qi , Ming-Jian Zhang , Wen-Biao Liu

We propose a new dark energy model for solving the cosmological fine-tuning and coincidence problems. A default assumption is that the fine-tuning problem disappears if we do not interpret dark energy as vacuum energy. The key idea to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-27 S. X. Tián

The dynamics of a minimally coupled scalar field in the expanding universe is discussed with special reference to phantom cosmology. The evolution of the universe with a phantom field vis-a-vis a quintessence field is compared. Phantom…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vinod B. Johri

We look at observational constraints on the thawing class of scalar field models proposed to explain the late time acceleration of the universe. Using the recently introduced `Statefinder Hierarchy', we compare these thawing class of models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Gaveshna Gupta , Subhabrata Majumdar , Anjan A Sen

In this work we present a model of the universe in which dark energy is modelled explicitely with both a dynamical quintessence field and a cosmological constant. Our results confirm the possibility of a future collapsing universe (for a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Rolando Cardenas , Tame Gonzalez , Yoelsy Leiva , Osmel Martin , Israel Quiros

Quintessence models have been widely examined in the context of scalar-Gauss-Bonnet gravity, a subclass of Horndeski's theory, and were proposed as viable candidates for Dark Energy. However, the relatively recent observational constraints…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-27 José Jaime Terente Díaz , Konstantinos Dimopoulos , Mindaugas Karčiauskas , Antonio Racioppi

We present a simple mechanism which can mimic dark energy with an equation of state w < -1 as deduced from the supernova data. We imagine that the universe is accelerating under the control of a quintessence field, which is moving up a very…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Csaba Csaki , Nemanja Kaloper , John Terning

Many ambitious experiments have been proposed to constrain dark energy and detect its evolution. At present, observational constraints are consistent with a cosmological constant and there is no firm evidence for any evolution in the dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-26 Sirichai Chongchitnan , George Efstathiou

We consider the efficacy of using luminosity distance measurements of deep redshift supernovae to discriminate between two forms of dark energy, quintessence (a scalar field with canonical kinetic terms rolling down a potential) and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-15 V. Barger , Danny Marfatia

Quintessence models leading to a constant equation of state are studied in hyperbolic universes. General properties of the quintessence potentials V(phi) are discussed, and for some special cases also the exact analytic expressions for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Aurich , F. Steiner

We address the fine-tuning problem of dark energy cosmologies which arises when the dark energy density needs to initially lie in a narrow range in order for its present value to be consistent with observations. As recently noticed, this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sabino Matarrese , Carlo Baccigalupi , Francesca Perrotta

Recently, we give the robust $\sim2\,\sigma$ evidences of dynamical dark matter and beyond $2\,\sigma$ signals of the coexistence of dynamical dark matter and dynamical dark energy using current cosmological observations [1]. Here we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-14 Deng Wang

In this paper, a well-motivated parametrization of the Hubble parameter ($H$% ) is revisited that renders two models of dark energy showing some intriguing features of the late-time accelerating Universe. A general quintessence field is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-19 Amine Bouali , Himanshu Chaudhary , Amritansh Mehrotra , S. K. J. Pacif