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Cosmological particle production by a time-dependent scalar field is common in cosmology. We focus on the mechanism of asymmetry production when interaction explicitly violates symmetry and its motion is rapid enough to create particles by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-09 Seishi Enomoto , Tomohiro Matsuda

Using the exact WKB analysis of the higher-order differential equations, we analyze the asymmetry in dynamical particle production of a complex scalar field. The solution requires the Stokes phenomena of the fourth-order differential…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-01 Seishi Enomoto , Tomohiro Matsuda

The complex time WKB (CWKB) approximation has been an effective technique to understand particle production in curved as well as in flat spacetime. Earlier we obtained the standard results on particle production in time dependent gauge in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 S. Biswas , B. Modak , A. Shaw

The phenomenon of gravitational particle production can take place for quantum fields in curved spacetime. The abundance and energy spectrum of gravitationally produced particles is typically calculated by solving the field's mode equations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Soichiro Hashiba , Siyang Ling , Andrew J. Long

Particle production in cosmology is often efficiently computed in terms of Bogoliubov transforms. Restricting to a particular class of dispersion relationships, we identify a map between the number of particles produced in a special…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-06-18 Daniel J. H. Chung , Nidhi Sudhir

In this work we study the particle production in time dependent periodic potential using the method of complex time WKB (CWKB) approximation. In the inflationary cosmology at the end of inflationary stage, the potential becomes time…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 S. Biswas , P. Misra , I. Chowdhury

Particle production due to external fields (electric, chromo-electric or gravitational) requires evolving an initial state through an interaction with a time-dependent background, with the rate being computed from a Bogoliubov…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-11-11 Cesim K. Dumlu , Gerald V. Dunne

The production of quantum field excitations or particles in cosmological spacetimes is a hallmark prediction of curved quantum field theory. The generation of cosmological perturbations from quantum fluctuations in the early universe…

Divergence in perturbative expansions is where interesting physics takes place. Particle production on time-dependent backgrounds, as one such example, is interpreted as transition from one vacuum to another. Vacuum is typically defined as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-24 Ryo Namba , Motoo Suzuki

Besides tunneling in static potential landscapes, for example, the Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin (WKB) approach is a powerful nonperturbative approximation tool to study particle creation due to time-dependent background fields, such as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-03 Johannes Oertel , Ralf Schützhold

This paper presents the derivation of Schwinger's gauge invariant result of $Im \cal{L}_{eff}$ upto one loop approximation, for particle production in an uniform electric field through the method of complex trajectory WKB approximation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-21 S. Biswas , A. Shaw , B. Modak

We study the vacuum pair production by a time-dependent strong electric field based on the exact WKB analysis. We identify the generic structure of a Stokes graph for systems with the vacuum pair production and show that the number of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-01-05 Hidetoshi Taya , Toshiaki Fujimori , Tatsuhiro Misumi , Muneto Nitta , Norisuke Sakai

We show that the amount of particle production in an arbitrary cosmological background can be determined using only the late-time positive-frequency modes. We don't refer to modes at early times, so there is no need for a Bogolubov…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Alex J. Hamilton , Daniel Kabat , Maulik K. Parikh

It is well known that the expansion of the universe can create particles. However, due to ambiguities when defining particles during the expansion, there are still debates about how to choose vacuum and particle states. To clarify how…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-23 Philip Semrén

The physical observables of quantum theory can be described by perturbation theory, which is often given by diverging power series. This divergence is connected to the existence of non-perturbative phenomena, where resurgence allows us to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-12-28 Seishi Enomoto , Tomohiro Matsuda

It is known that time-dependent vacuum expectation value of the background field may lead to abundant particle production in the early Universe. In supersymmetric theories bosons and fermions are produced in a correlated manner that depends…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-07 Olga Czerwinska , Seishi Enomoto , Zygmunt Lalak

Gravitational particle production is a minimal contribution to reheating the Universe after the end of inflation. To study this production channel, two different approaches have commonly been considered, one of which is based on the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-08 Kunio Kaneta , Sung Mook Lee , Kin-ya Oda

We analyze cosmological particle production driven by spacetime expansion in the early universe for homogeneous and isotropic cosmologies with positive, negative, and zero spatial curvature. We prioritize analytical results to gain a deeper…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-06 Jose A. R. Cembranos , Luis J. Garay , Álvaro Parra-López

In this article, we study quantum randomness of stochastic cosmological particle production scenario using quantum corrected higher order Fokker Planck equation. Using the one to one correspondence between particle production in presence of…

General Physics · Physics 2019-07-09 Sayantan Choudhury , Arkaprava Mukherjee

The Berry phase is a geometric phase that is important in explaining topological quantum phenomena. The Berry phase is also important in non-perturbative phenomena, as the imaginary part of the phase explains the non-perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-15 Tomohiro Matsuda
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