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This paper continues a study of field theories specified for the nonuniform lattice in the finite-dimensional hypercube with the use of the earlier described deformation parameters. The paper is devoted to spontaneous breakdown and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 A. E. Shalyt-Margolin

We propose a new mechanism of non-thermal particle production during inflation based on a narrow parametric resonance, akin to the dynamics of post-inflationary preheating. The mechanism is based on the production of scalar particles with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-18 Diogo S. Gorgulho , João G. Rosa

Explosive particle production due to parametric resonance is a crucial feature of reheating in inflationary cosmology. Coherent oscillations of the inflaton field act as a periodically varying mass in the evolution equation for matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 V. Zanchin , A. Maia , W. Craig , R. Brandenberger

In this proceeding, we study time evolution of a complex scalar field, in symmetry broken phase, in presence of oscillating spacetime metric background. We show that spacetime oscillations lead to parametric resonance of the field. This…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-11-03 Shreyansh S. Dave , Sanatan Digal

We present the first fully non-linear calculation of inflaton decay. We map inflaton decay onto an equivalent classical problem and solve the latter numerically. In the $\lambda\phi^4$ model, we find that parametric resonance develops…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 S. Yu. Khlebnikov , I. I. Tkachev

Optical parametric oscillators are widely-used pulsed and continuous-wave tunable sources for innumerable applications, as in quantum technologies, imaging and biophysics. A key drawback is material dispersion imposing the phase-matching…

Optics · Physics 2017-07-28 A. Ciattoni , A. Marini , C. Rizza , C. Conti

We calculate curvature perturbations in the scenario in which the curvaton field decays into another scalar field via parametric resonance. As a result of a nonlinear stage at the end of the resonance, standard perturbative calculation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-15 Alex Chambers , Sami Nurmi , Arttu Rajantie

We study the dynamics of active-sterile neutrino oscillations in the early universe using full momentum-dependent quantum-kinetic equations. These equations are too complicated to allow for an analytical treatment, and numerical solution is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Kimmo Kainulainen , Antti Sorri

We consider the classical evolution of a lattice of non-linear coupled oscillators for a special case of initial conditions resembling the equilibrium state of a macroscopic thermal system at the critical point. The displacements of the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 N. G. Antoniou , F. K. Diakonos , E. N. Saridakis , G. A. Tsolias

We present the first study of parametric resonance in quantum field theory from a complete next-to-leading order calculation in a 1/N-expansion of the 2PI effective action, which includes scattering and memory effects. We present a complete…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 J. Berges , J. Serreau

Primordial non-Gaussianities (PNGs) are features in the initial density field that provide a window into the nonlinear dynamics of particles during the inflationary epoch. Among them, a distinctive set of signatures from "cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-02 Dhayaa Anbajagane , Hayden Lee

The paradigm of the inflationary universe provides a possible explanation for several observed cosmological properties. In order for such solutions to be successful, the universe must convert the energy stored in the inflaton potential into…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-01 Leia Barrowes , Fred C. Adams , Anthony M. Bloch , John T. Giblin, , Scott Watson

We consider preheating in the theory $1/4 \lambda \phi^4 + 1/2 g^2\phi^2\chi^2 $, where the classical oscillating inflaton field $\phi$ decays into $\chi$-particles and $\phi$-particles. The parametric resonance which leads to particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-29 Patrick Greene , Lev Kofman , Andrei Linde , Alexei Starobinsky

Parametric oscillation is a fundamental concept that underlies nonlinear wave-matter interactions, leading to generation or amplification of new frequency components. Using a temporal modulation generated by the heterodyne interference of a…

Optics · Physics 2020-01-10 Xuexue Guo , Xingjie Ni

We study numerically the decay of the inflaton by solving the full non-linear equations of motion on the lattice. We confirm that parametric resonance is effective in transferring energy from the inflaton to a scalar field as long as the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Tomislav Prokopec , Thomas G. Roos

Much of the physical world around us can be described in terms of harmonic oscillators in thermodynamic equilibrium. At the same time, the far from equilibrium behavior of oscillators is important in many aspects of modern physics. Here, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 A. Leuch , L. Papariello , O. Zilberberg , C. L. Degen , R. Chitra , A. Eichler

We study the evolution of the universe which contains a multiple number of non-relativistic scalar fields decaying into both radiation and pressureless matter. We present a powerful analytic formalism to calculate the matter and radiation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ki-Young Choi , Jinn-Ouk Gong

We investigate the decay dynamics of oscillons through interactions with an external scalar field. To examine how robust the decay dynamics of oscillons via parametric resonance we previously found in Li et al. 2025 are to the specific form…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-06 Siyao Li

We present a detailed and systematic analysis of the nonperturbative, nonequilibrium dynamics of a quantum field in the reheating phase of inflatonary cosmology, including full back reactions of the quantum field on the curved spacetime, as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 S. A. Ramsey , B. L. Hu

A dark photon may kinetically mix with the Standard Model photon, leading to observable cosmological signatures. The mixing is resonantly enhanced when the dark photon mass matches the primordial plasma frequency, which depends sensitively…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-11 Andrea Caputo , Hongwan Liu , Siddharth Mishra-Sharma , Joshua T. Ruderman