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Recently Peebles and Vilenkin proposed and quantitatively analyzed the fascinating idea that a substantial fraction of the present cosmic energy density could reside in the vacuum potential energy of the scalar field responsible for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Carlo Baccigalupi , Francesca Perrotta

Creating stable superposed states of matter is one of the most intriguing aspects of quantum physics, leading to a variety of counter-intuitive scenarios along with a possibility of restructuring the way we understand, process and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-11-13 Arif Warsi Laskar , Niharika Singh , Pratik Adhikary , Arunabh Mukherjee , Saikat Ghosh

Quantum thermometry plays a critical role in the development of low-temperature sensors and quantum information platforms. In this work, we propose and theoretically analyze a hybrid circuit quantum electrodynamics architecture in which a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Shaojiang Zhu , Xinyuan You , Alexander Romanenko , Anna Grassellino

Supersymmetric compactification with moderately large radius (${\rm Re}< T > \sim {\cal O}(10)$ or more) not only accommodates supersymmetric unification, but also provides candidates for an inflaton in the form of geometric moduli; the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-10-29 Hirotaka Hayashi , Ryo Matsuda , Taizan Watari

Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations are used to constrain reheating to Standard Model (SM) particles after a period of inflation. As a light spectator field, the SM Higgs boson acquires large field values from its quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-17 Aliki Litsa , Katherine Freese , Evangelos I. Sfakianakis , Patrick Stengel , Luca Visinelli

We investigate for viable models of inflation that can successfully produce dark matter (DM) from inflaton decay process, satisfying all the constraints from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) and from some other observations. In particular,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-19 Anish Ghoshal , Gaetano Lambiase , Supratik Pal , Arnab Paul , Shiladitya Porey

Processes of particle production during inflation can increase the amplitude of the scalar metric perturbations. We show that such a mechanism can naturally arise in supergravity models where an axion-like field, whose potential is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-07 Michael A. Roberts , Lorenzo Sorbo

Unifying the early-universe inflationary paradigm with late-time cosmic acceleration, while resolving the initial Big Bang singularity, remains one of the most profound challenges in modern cosmology. In this paper, we propose a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-20 Zhiming Shuai , Xiangdong Zhang

Preparing and detecting spatially extended quantum superpositions of a massive object comprises an important fundamental test of quantum theory. These quantum states are extremely fragile and tend to quickly decay into incoherent mixtures…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-12 Oleg Lychkovskiy

We compute the primordial scalar, vector and tensor metric perturbations arising from quantum field inflation. Quantum field inflation takes into account the nonperturbative quantum dynamics of the inflaton consistently coupled to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. J. Cao , H. J. de Vega , N. G. Sanchez

We consider supersymmetric inflation models in which inflation occurs at an intermediate scale and which provide a solution to the $\mu$ problem and the strong CP problem. Such models are particularly attractive since inflation,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. L. Kane , S. F. King

The big bang model and the history of the early universe according to the grand unified theories are introduced. The shortcomings of big bang are discussed together with their resolution by inflationary cosmology. Inflation, the subsequent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Lazarides

In this work, we systematically present a new dynamical systems approach to standard inflationary processes and their variants as constant-roll inflation. Using the techniques presented in our work one can in general investigate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Sandip Biswas , Saddam Hussain , Kaushik Bhattacharya

We explore the homogeneous background dynamics and the evolution of generated perturbations of cosmological inflation that is driven by multiple scalar fields interacting with a perfect fluid.Then we apply the method to warm inflation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-04-04 Yang-Yang Wang , Jian-Yang Zhu , Xiao-Min Zhang

The generic prediction for the perturbations generated during slow--roll, single--field inflation, as they appear in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), is a flat, close--to--Gaussian spectrum. We calculate the general solution for a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Gupta

We consider the space-condensate inflation model to study the primordial gravitational waves generated in the early Universe. We calculate the energy spectrum of gravitational waves induced by the space-condensate inflation model for full…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-27 Seoktae Koh , Bum-Hoon Lee , Gansukh Tumurtushaa

We consider a model of D-term inflation in which the inflaton coincides with the standard Higgs doublet. Non-renormalizable terms are controlled by a discrete R-symmetry of the superpotential. We consider radiative corrections to the scalar…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-25 K. Tamvakis

Different well-know ways to reheat the universe such as instant preheating, the creation of particles nearly or conformally coupled with gravity, or from the decay products of a curvaton field, are revisited and discussed in detail in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-02-20 Jaume Haro

By incorporating quantum aspects of gravity, Loop Quantum Cosmology (LQC) provides a self-consistent extension of the inflationary scenario, allowing for modifications in the primordial inflationary power spectrum with respect to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-01 Micol Benetti , Leila Graef , Rudnei O. Ramos

We take an analytic approach towards the framework of parametric resonance and apply it on preheating and locked inflation. A two-scalar toy model is analytically solved for the \lambda\phi^2\chi^2 coupling for the homogenous modes. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-12-22 Lingfei Wang