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Loop quantum cosmology (LQC) predicts a nonsingular evolution of the universe through a bounce in the high energy region. We show that this is always true in tachyon matter LQC. Different from the classical Friedman-Robertson-Walker (FRW)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Hua-Hui Xiong , Jian-Yang Zhu

Starting from pure multidimensional gravity with curvature-nonlinear terms but no matter fields in the initial action, we obtain a cosmological model with two effective scalar fields related to the size of two extra factor spaces. The model…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-21 K. A. Bronnikov , S. G. Rubin , I. V. Svadkovsky

We prove that in the Hartle-Hawking approach to quantum cosmology the existence of an inflationary phase is a general property of minisuperspace models given by a closed Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe containing a massless scalar field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-04-06 Giampiero Esposito , Giovanni Platania

We consider a universe in which inflation commences because of a positive cosmological constant, the effect of which is progressively screened by the interaction between virtual gravitons that become trapped in the expansion of spacetime.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 N. C. Tsamis , R. P. Woodard

The Universe is currently in a phase of accelerated expansion, a fact that was experimentally proven in the late 1990s. Cosmological models involving scalar fields allow the description of this accelerated expansion regime in the Cosmos and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-11 Joao R. L. Santos , S. Santos da Costa , Romario S. Santos

Cosmic inflation is the leading theory to explain early Universe history and structure formation. Non-oscillatory inflation is a class of models which can naturally introduce a post-inflationary stiff period of the Universe's evolution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-03 Lucy Brissenden , Konstantinos Dimopoulos , Eemeli Tomberg

One of the major pillars of modern cosmology theory is a period of accelerating expansion in the early universe. This accelerating expansion, or inflation, must be sustained for at least 30 e--foldings. One mechanism used to drive the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-04-17 Damien A. Easson , Paul H. Frampton , George F. Smoot

We discuss a new scenario for early cosmology, when inflationary de Sitter phase dynamically emergent. This genuine quantum effect occurs as a result of dynamics of the topologically nontrivial sectors in a (conjectured) strongly coupled…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-13 Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

According to the inflationary theory of cosmology, most elementary particles in the current universe were created during a period of reheating after inflation. In this work we self-consistently couple the Einstein-inflaton equations to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-03 Christian Ecker , Elias Kiritsis , Wilke van der Schee

We investigate inflation driven by the evolution of highly excited quantum states within the framework of out of equilibrium field dynamics. The self-consistent evolution of these quantum states and the scale factor is studied analytically…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. J. Cao

We perform a semi-classical analysis of the Emergent Universe scenario for inflation. Fixing the background, and taking the inflaton to be homogenous, we cast the inflaton's evolution as a one-dimensional quantum mechanics problem. We find…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-11-20 Anthony Aguirre , John Kehayias

We investigate three issues that have been discussed in the context of inflation: Fading of the importance of quantum non-commutativity; the phenomenon of quantum squeezing; and the ability to approximate the quantum state by a distribution…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-11-13 Abhay Ashtekar , Alejandro Corichi , Aruna Kesavan

In this paper we present a model for accelerated expansion of the universe, both during inflation and the present stage of the expansion, from four dimensional $\mathcal{N}=1$ supergravity. We evaluate the tensor-to-scalar ratio ($r\approx…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-29 Ricardo C. G. Landim

The FRW model with non-minimally coupled massive scalar field has been investigated in LQC framework. Considered form of the potential and coupling allows applications to Higgs driven inflation. Out of two frames used in the literature to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Michal Artymowski , Andrea Dapor , Tomasz Pawlowski

We use as a model of how nucleation of a new universe occurs, assuming a di quark identification for soliton-anti soliton constituent parts of a scalar field. We construct a model showing evolutin from a dark matter dark energy mix to a…

General Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 A. W. Beckwith

We derive an uncertainty relation for the energy density and pressure of a quantum scalar field in a time-dependent, homogeneous and isotropic, classical background, which implies the existence of large fluctuations comparable to their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-04 Ali Kaya

In this Letter, we study analytically the evolutions of the flat Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) universe and its linear perturbations in the framework of {\em the dressed metric approach} in loop quantum cosmology (LQC).…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-21 Tao Zhu , Anzhong Wang , Klaus Kirsten , Gerald Cleaver , Qin Sheng

The early Universe inflation is well known as a promising theory to explain the origin of large scale structure of the Universe, a causal theory for the origin of primordial density fluctuations which may explain the observed density…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Xin-he Meng

The creation of ultra-light dark particles in the late-time FLRW spacetime provides a cosmological model in accordance with precise observational tests. The matter creation backreaction implies in this context a vacuum energy density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-10-11 Saulo Carneiro

The deep interrelation between elementary particle physics and cosmology manifests itself when one considers the contribution of quantum fluctuations of vacuum fields to the dark energy and the effective cosmological constant. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-20 George Savvidy