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We consider a model of preheating where the coupling of the inflaton to the preheat field is modulated by an additional scalar field which is light during inflation. We establish that such a model produces the observed curvature…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-15 Kari Enqvist , Stanislav Rusak

Reheating after inflation occurs due to particle production by the oscillating inflaton field. In this paper we describe the perturbative approach to reheating, and then concentrate on effects beyond the perturbation theory. They are…

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

The quantum theory of electromagnetic radiation predicts characteristic statistical fluctuations for light sources as diverse as sunlight, laser radiation and molecule fluorescence. Indeed, these underlying statistical fluctuations of light…

We demonstrate the possiblity to cool nanoelectronic systems in nonequilibrium situations by increasing the temperature of the environment. Such cooling by heating is possible for a variety of experimental conditions where the relevant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 R. Härtle , C. Schinabeck , M. Kulkarni , D. Gelbwaser-Klimovsky , M. Thoss , U. Peskin

We analyze the phenomenon of preheating,i.e. explosive particle production due to parametric amplification of quantum fluctuations in the unbroken case, or spinodal instabilities in the broken phase, using the Minkowski space $O(N)$ vector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 D. Boyanovsky , H. J. de Vega , R. Holman , J. F. J. Salgado

We study preheating in a general class of supersymmetric hybrid inflation model. Supersymmetry leads to only one coupling constant in the potential and thus only one natural frequency of oscillation for the homogeneous fields, whose…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Bastero-Gil , S. F. King , J. Sanderson

Interference effects in quantum transitions, giving rise to amplification without inversion, optical transparency and to enhancements in nonlinear optical frequency conversions are considered. Review of the relevant early theoretical and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 A. K. Popov , S. G. Rautian

Time-periodic light-field provides an emerging pathway for dynamically engineering quantum materials by forming hybrid states between photons and Bloch electrons. So far, experimental progress on light-field dressed states has been mainly…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-10 Fei Wang , Wanying Chen , Changhua Bao , Tianyun Lin , Haoyuan Zhong , Hongyun Zhang , Shuyun Zhou

The preheating after the inflation, which can be interpreted as particle creation in the oscillating inflaton background, provides a state far from thermal equilibrium. We extend the field theoretical treatment of the preheating by Linde et…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 K. Funakubo , A. Kakuto , S. Otsuki , F. Toyoda

Our Universe is ruled by quantum mechanics and its extension Quantum Field Theory (QFT). However, the explanations for a number of cosmological phenomena such as inflation, dark energy, symmetry breakings, and phase transitions need the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 Houri Ziaeepour

Entanglement can modify light-matter interaction effects and, conversely, these interactions can change the non-classical correlations present in the system. We present an example where these mutual connections can be discussed in a simple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Pedro Sancho

We study a composite quantum quench of the energy gap and the interactions in the interacting \phi^4 model using a self-consistent approximation. Firstly we review the results for free theories where a quantum quench of the energy gap or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Spyros Sotiriadis , John Cardy

We extend the formalism to calculate non-Gaussianity of primordial curvature perturbations produced by preheating in the presence of a light scalar field. The calculation is carried out in the separate universe approximation using the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-31 Pulkit S. Ghoderao , Arttu Rajantie

We theoretically characterize the semiclassical dynamics of an ensemble of atoms after a sudden quench across a driven-dissipative second-order phase transition. The atoms are driven by a laser and interact via conservative and dissipative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Stefan Schütz , Simon B. Jäger , Giovanna Morigi

We investigate the impact of a non-negligible background temperature on relativistic plasma wake-fields generated when a beam of charged particles passes through a neutral plasma at rest. We focus on the blowout regime, wherein the plasma…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 D. Simeoni , G. Parise , A. R. Rossi , A. Frazzitta , F. Guglietta , M. Sbragaglia

We discuss the interaction between perturbations in the inflaton and the background during the preheating phase in simple inflationary models. By numerically solving the Einstein field equations we are able to assess the impact of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Richard Easther , Matthew Parry

We study an effect of quenching of antihydrogen quantum states near material surface in the gravitational field of the Earth by local charges randomly distributed along the mirror surface. The quenching mechanism reduces the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-20 A. Yu. Voronin , E. A. Kupriyanova , A. Lambrecht , V. V. Nesvizhevsky , S. Reynaud

Compton scattering is one of the cornerstones of quantum physics, describing the fundamental interaction of a charged particle with photons. The Compton effect and its inverse are utilized in experiments driving free electrons by high…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Majed Khalaf , Ido Kaminer

In this conference paper, we consider effective field theories of non-relativistic dark matter particles interacting with a light force mediator in the early expanding universe. We present a general framework, where to account in a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-18 Simone Biondini , Nora Brambilla , Gramos Qerimi , Antonio Vairo

From the nonclassicality of photon superbunching to the basic property of intensity, we characterize light with correlation and coherence functions. The correlation functions for nonstationary sources, such as short pulses, depend…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Joscelyn van der Veen , Daniel F. V. James