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We study the gravitational production of spectator massless vector particles in a single-field inflationary scenario, and the related entanglement generation across the Hubble horizon. Accordingly, we consider a quasi-de Sitter background…

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We investigate inflationary particle production associated with a spectator ultralight scalar field, which has been recently proposed as a plausible dark matter candidate. In this framework, we select the Starobinsky potential to drive the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-24 Alessio Belfiglio , Orlando Luongo

We investigate the entanglement due to geometric corrections in particle creation during inflation. To do so, we propose a single-field inflationary scenario, nonminimally coupled to the scalar curvature of spacetime. We require particle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-06-05 Alessio Belfiglio , Orlando Luongo , Stefano Mancini

We discuss some entanglement features associated with cubic non-Gaussian perturbations in single-field inflationary scenarios. We adopt standard momentum-space techniques to show how multipartite entanglement arises for inflationary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-01 Alessio Belfiglio , Roberto Franzosi , Orlando Luongo

We show that the entropy of cosmological perturbations originating as quantum vacuum fluctuations in the very early universe, including the contribution of the leading nonlinear interactions, can be viewed as momentum space entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-11-12 Suddhasattwa Brahma , Omar Alaryani , Robert Brandenberger

The density fluctuations that we observe in the universe today are thought to originate from quantum fluctuations produced during a phase of the early universe called inflation. By evolving a wavefunction describing two coupled Fourier…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-13 Dan Mazur , Jeremy S. Heyl

The fluctuations in the inflaton field at the end of inflation which seed the density perturbations are prepared in a pure quantum state. It is generally assumed that some physics causes this pure state to decohere so that it should be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jonathan W. Sharman , Guy D. Moore

We propose a new mechanism to generate density perturbations in inflationary models. Spatial fluctuations in the decay rate of the inflaton field to ordinary matter lead to fluctuations in the reheating temperature. We argue that in most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gia Dvali , Andrei Gruzinov , Matias Zaldarriaga

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

Using the fact that we only observe those modes which exit the Hubble horizon during inflation, one can calculate the entanglement entropy of such long-wavelength perturbations by tracing out unobservable sub-Hubble fluctuations they are…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-06-14 Suddhasattwa Brahma

Supersymmetric hybrid inflation is an exquisite framework to connect inflationary cosmology to particle physics at the scale of grand unification. Ending in a phase transition associated with spontaneous symmetry breaking, it can naturally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-31 Wilfried Buchmuller , Valerie Domcke , Kohei Kamada , Kai Schmitz

In inflationary cosmology all particle states decay as a consequence of the lack of kinematic thresholds. The decay of an initial single particle state yields an \emph{entangled quantum state of the product particles}. We generalize and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-15 Louis Lello , Daniel Boyanovsky , Richard Holman

We investigate a solution of the exactly renormalized Liouville action to foresee the fate of the two-dimensional de Sitter space. We work in the semiclassical region with a large matter central charge $c$. Instead of de Sitter expansion,…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-05-02 Hiroyuki Kitamoto , Yoshihisa Kitazawa

We explore novel generation of genuine multipartite entanglement within gravitational particle production processes during inflationary stages. To this end, we focus on perturbative production mechanisms, considering a non-minimally coupled…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-05 Alessio Belfiglio , Roberto Franzosi , Orlando Luongo

We investigate the entropy dynamics of de Sitter spacetime during the inflationary phase. The cosmological horizon in de Sitter spacetime, which limits the causally accessible region for an observer, exhibits thermal properties similar to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-03-24 Hiromasa Tajima , Yasusada Nambu

We consider supersymmetric inflation with the hybrid-type potential. In the absence of the symmetry that forbids Hubble-induced mass terms, the inflaton mass will be as large as the Hubble scale during inflation. We consider gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-15 Tomohiro Matsuda

We compute the evolution of the entanglement entropy for a massless field within a spherical region throughout the inflationary period and the subsequent era of radiation domination, starting from the Bunch-Davies vacuum. In order to focus…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-28 Konstantinos Boutivas , Dimitrios Katsinis , Georgios Pastras , Nikolaos Tetradis

Using the techniques of out-of-equilibrium field theory, we study the influence on the properties of cosmological perturbations generated during inflation on observable scales coming from fluctuations corresponding today to scales much…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 Sabino Matarrese , Marcello A. Musso , Antonio Riotto

We study the entanglement entropy resulting from tracing out local degrees of freedom of a quantum scalar field in an expanding universe. It is known that when field modes become superhorizon during inflation they evolve to increasingly…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-30 Konstantinos Boutivas , Georgios Pastras , Nikolaos Tetradis

We propose an inflationary scenario where the inflaton field is non-minimally coupled to spacetime curvature and inflation is driven by a vacuum energy symmetry breaking potential without specifying \emph{a priori} whether the inflaton…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-04 Alessio Belfiglio , Youri Carloni , Orlando Luongo
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