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It is generally assumed that the two dark components of the energy density of the universe, a smooth component called dark energy and a fluid of nonrelativistic weakly interacting particles called dark matter, are independent of each other…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark B. Hoffman

Dark sector interactions can be explored via the so-called Type 3 model where dark matter and dark energy exchange momentum only, so as to minimize deviations from the $\Lambda$CDM background expansion history. Using N-body simulations, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Kin Ho Luo , Ming-chung Chu , Wangzheng Zhang

We consider a non-linear interaction between the dark matter and dark energy components of the universe. In particular, within the FLRW geometry, where dark matter is described by a dust fluid and dark energy by an ideal gas with a constant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 Marcel van der Westhuizen , David Figueruelo , Rethabile Thubisi , Shambel Sahlu , Amare Abebe , Andronikos Paliathanasis

We explore a chameleon type of interacting dark matter-dark energy scenario in which a scalar field adiabatically traces the minimum of an effective potential sourced by the dark matter density. We discuss extensively the effect of this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Daniel Boriero , Subinoy Das , Yvonne Y. Y. Wong

We consider a cosmological model with an interaction between dark matter and dark energy which leaves the background cosmology unaffected and only affects the evolution of the perturbations. This is achieved by introducing a coupling given…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Mahnaz Asghari , Jose Beltran Jimenez , Shahram Khosravi , David F. Mota

Interacting dark energy models may play a crucial role in explaining several important observational issues in modern cosmology and also may provide a solution to current cosmological tensions. Since the phenomenology of the dark sector…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-06 Weiqiang Yang , Supriya Pan , Olga Mena , Eleonora Di Valentino

We investigate the model of dark matter-dark energy (DM-DE) interaction with coupling strength proportional to the multiplication of dark sector densities with different power indices $Q = \gamma \rho_{\rm c}^{\alpha} \rho_{\rm d}^{\beta}$.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Gong Cheng , Yin-Zhe Ma , Fengquan Wu , Jiajun Zhang , Xuelei Chen

We investigate models of interacting dark matter and dark energy for the universe in a spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) space-time. We find the "source equation" for the total energy density and determine the energy density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Luis P. Chimento

In this work, we investigate the constraints on the total neutrino mass in the scenario of vacuum energy interacting with cold dark matter (abbreviated as I$\Lambda$CDM) by using the latest cosmological observations. We consider four…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-16 Hai-Li Li , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

Low energy interactions between particles are often characterised by elastic scattering. Just as electrons undergo Thomson scattering with photons, dark matter particles may experience an analogous form of momentum exchange with dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 Marco Baldi , Fergus Simpson

In interacting dark energy (DE) and dark matter (DM) scenarios, the interaction function typically includes a coupling parameter $\xi$ that quantifies the strength of energy exchange between the dark sectors. While $\xi$ is often assumed to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-27 Weiqiang Yang , Sibo Zhang , Olga Mena , Supriya Pan , Eleonora Di Valentino

We revise the cosmological interaction between dark energy and dark matter. More precisely, we focus on models that support compartmentalization or co-existence in the dark sector of the universe. Within the framework of a homogeneous and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-25 Andronikos Paliathanasis , Kevin Duffy , Amlan Halder , Amare Abebe

We consider a recently proposed model in which dark matter interacts with a thermal background of dark radiation. Dark radiation consists of relativistic degrees of freedom which allow larger values of the expansion rate of the universe…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Manuel A. Buen-Abad , Martin Schmaltz , Julien Lesgourgues , Thejs Brinckmann

In this paper, we perform a forecast analysis to test the capacity of future baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) and cosmic microwave background (CMB) experiments to constrain phenomenological interacting dark energy models using the Fisher…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-23 Larissa Santos , Wen Zhao , Elisa G. M. Ferreira , Jerome Quintin

We investigate a cosmological scenario with three interacting components that includes dark matter, dark energy, and radiation in the spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe. We introduce a 3-dimensional internal space, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-02 Luis P. Chimento , Martín G. Richarte

Interacting dark energy models are widely renowned for giving an explanation to the cosmic coincidence problem as well as several observational issues. According to the recent observational data, and so far we are concerned with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-07 Supriya Pan , Weiqiang Yang , Andronikos Paliathanasis

We investigate a spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) scenario with two interacting components, dark matter and variable vacuum energy (VVE) densities, plus two decoupled components, one is a baryon term while the other behaves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-21 Iván E. Sánchez G

We study a two-parameter extension of the cosmological standard model $\Lambda$CDM in which cold dark matter interacts with a new form of dark radiation. The two parameters correspond to the energy density in the dark radiation fluid…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-14 Julien Lesgourgues , Gustavo Marques-Tavares , Martin Schmaltz

We investigate the cosmological dynamics of interacting dark energy models in which the interaction function is a nonlinear in terms of the energy densities. Considering explicitly the interaction between a pressureless dark matter and a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-17 Andronikos Paliathanasis , Supriya Pan , Weiqiang Yang

In this paper we investigate ghost dark energy model in the presence of non-linear interaction between dark energy and dark matter. We also extend the analysis to the so called generalized ghost dark energy (GGDE) which $\rho_D=\alpha…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-05 E. Ebrahimi , H. Golchin , A. Mehrabi , S. M. S. Movahed