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Early Dark Energy (EDE) is a promising model to resolve the Hubble Tension, that, informed by Cosmic Microwave Background data, features a generalization of the potential energy usually associated with axion-like particles. We develop…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-07-05 Michele Cicoli , Matteo Licheri , Ratul Mahanta , Evan McDonough , Francisco G. Pedro , Marco Scalisi

An axion-like field comprising $\sim 10\%$ of the energy density of the universe near matter-radiation equality is a candidate to resolve the Hubble tension; this is the "early dark energy" (EDE) model. However, as shown in Hill et al.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-04 Mikhail M. Ivanov , Evan McDonough , J. Colin Hill , Marko Simonović , Michael W. Toomey , Stephon Alexander , Matias Zaldarriaga

The tension between the Hubble constant ($H_0$) inferred from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and that measured from late-time observations, such as the local distance ladder, is a major challenge in modern cosmology. Early dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-16 Mai Yashiki

Early Dark Energy (EDE) is a prominent model to resolve the Hubble tension, which employs a dynamical axion with a periodic potential. In this work, we take first steps towards the embedding of this model into stable compactifications of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-09-02 Evan McDonough , Marco Scalisi

New measurements of the expansion rate of the Universe have plunged the standard model of cosmology into a severe crisis. In this letter, we propose a simple resolution to the problem that relies on a first order phase transition in a dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Florian Niedermann , Martin S. Sloth

Early Dark Energy (EDE) contributing a fraction $f_{\rm EDE}(z_c)\sim 10 \%$ of the energy density of the universe around $z_c\simeq 3500$ and diluting as or faster than radiation afterwards, can provide a resolution to the Hubble tension,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-04 Riccardo Murgia , Guillermo F. Abellán , Vivian Poulin

Early dark energy has emerged as one of the more promising approaches to address the Hubble tension - the statistically significant disparity between measurements of the Hubble constant made using data from different epochs in cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-03 Mark Trodden

In this study, cosmological models are considered, where dark matter and dark energy are coupled and may exchange energy through non-gravitational interactions with one other. These interacting dark energy (IDE) models have previously been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-23 Marcel A. van der Westhuizen , Amare Abebe

We present a theoretical study of an early dark energy (EDE) model. The equation of state $\omega(z)$ evolves during the thermal history in a framework of a Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker Universe, following an effective…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-17 Luz Ángela García , Leonardo Castañeda , Juan Manuel Tejeiro

The fact that the energy densities of dark energy and matter are similar currently, known as the coincidence problem, is one of the main unsolved problems of cosmology. We present here a model in which a spatial curvature of the universe…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Urbano Franca

New Early Dark Energy (NEDE) is a component of vacuum energy at the electron volt scale, which decays in a first-order phase transition shortly before recombination [arXiv:1910.10739]. The NEDE component has the potential to resolve the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-23 Florian Niedermann , Martin S. Sloth

The shorten sound horizon scale at the recombination epoch by introducing extra energy components such as the extra radiation or early dark energy (EDE) is a simple approach to so-called the Hubble tension. We compare EDE models, an extra…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-29 Osamu Seto , Yo Toda

One of the most appealing approaches to ease the Hubble tension is the inclusion of an early dark energy (EDE) component that adds energy to the Universe in a narrow redshift window around the time of recombination and dilutes faster than…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-14 Matteo Braglia , William T. Emond , Fabio Finelli , A. Emir Gumrukcuoglu , Kazuya Koyama

New Early Dark Energy introduces a new phase of dark energy that decays in a fast-triggered phase transition around matter-radiation equality. The presence of a trigger mechanism sets it apart from other early dark energy models. Here, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-16 Florian Niedermann , Martin S. Sloth

Early dark energy (EDE) models are a class of quintessence dark energy with a dynamically evolving scalar field which display a small but non-negligible amount of dark energy at the epoch of matter-radiation equality. Compared with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-05-02 Difu Shi , Carlton M. Baugh

The tension between measurements of the Hubble constant obtained at different redshifts may provide a hint of new physics active in the relatively early universe, around the epoch of matter-radiation equality. A leading paradigm to resolve…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Mariana Carrillo González , Qiuyue Liang , Jeremy Sakstein , Mark Trodden

We test the $n$=3 Ultralight Axion-like model of Early Dark Energy (EDE) with the observationsof the $EB$ mode of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation, and local expansion rate measurements. Our results show that the shape of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Joby Kochappan , Lu Yin , Bum-Hoon Lee , Tuhin Ghosh

The Hubble tension persists as a challenge in cosmology. Even early dark energy (EDE) models, initially considered the most promising for alleviating the Hubble tension, fall short of addressing the issue without exacerbating other…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-12 Yan-Hong Yao , Xin-He Meng

In this paper, we investigate the interaction between early dark energy (EDE) and scalar field dark matter, proposing a coupled scalar fields model to address the Hubble tension and $S_8$ tension. While the EDE model successfully alleviates…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-31 Gang Liu , Zhihuan Zhou , Yuhao Mu , Lixin Xu

A dark energy-like component in the early universe, known as early dark energy (EDE), is a proposed solution to the Hubble tension. Currently, there is no consensus in the literature as to whether EDE can simultaneously solve the Hubble…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-03 Laura Herold , Elisa G. M. Ferreira , Eiichiro Komatsu