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We explore an interacting dark matter (DM)-dark energy (DE) framework that naturally yields an effective dynamical DE equation of state crossing the phantom barrier at early times, as indicated by recent DESI data, while also accounting for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-07 Basabendu Barman , Sudhakantha Girmohanta

In this study, we will look at an interacting dark energy model. In the framework of Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) space-time, we have made the hypothesis of an interacting scheme between two fields (dark matter (DM) and dark energy…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-27 J. K. Singh , Ritika Nagpal

We consider the implications of a scalar field interacting with the dark matter fluid on the energy spectrum of the primordial gravitational waves. We choose an interaction type which before a critical matter density $\rho_m^c$ during the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-06-17 V. K. Oikonomou

We investigate a class of interacting dark energy (IDE) models arising from density-driven spontaneous symmetry breaking in a conformally coupled scalar-tensor framework. In this construction, the dark matter-scalar interaction is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-27 Pradosh Keshav MV , NS Kavya , Kenath Arun

In this paper, we investigate the kinetically coupled early dark energy (EDE) and scalar field dark matter to address cosmological tensions. The EDE model presents an intriguing theoretical approach to resolving the Hubble tension, but it…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-22 Gang Liu , Zhihuan Zhou , Yuhao Mu , Lixin Xu

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 propose a new model of scalar field dark matter interacting with dark energy. Adopting a fluid description of the dark matter field in the regime of rapid oscillations, we find that the equation of state for dark matter is non-zero and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-17 Gaspard Poulot , Elsa M. Teixeira , Carsten van de Bruck , Nelson J. Nunes

While $\Lambda$CDM provides a good fit to cosmological data, it fails to address many of the outstanding questions in contemporary cosmology. Chief among these are the Hubble tension and the apparent dynamical nature of dark energy as…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-28 Amin Aboubrahim , Pran Nath

Recent DESI baryon acoustic oscillation data reveal deviations from $\Lambda$CDM cosmology, conventionally attributed to dynamical dark energy (DE). We demonstrate that these deviations are equally, if not better, explained by interactions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-13 Tian-Nuo Li , William Giarè , Guo-Hong Du , Yun-He Li , Eleonora Di Valentino , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

In this talk, I have discussed the implications of a multi-component nature of cosmic Dark Matter for the observational bounds on possible long-range fifth-forces mediated by a Dark Energy scalar field. By assuming a simple internal…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-04-19 Marco Baldi

It is generally assumed that the two dark components of the energy density of the universe, a smooth component called dark energy and a fluid of nonrelativistic weakly interacting particles called dark matter, are independent of each other…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark B. Hoffman

Recent astrophysical observations indicate that the universe is composed of a large amount of dark energy (DE) responsible for an accelerated expansion of the universe, along with a sizeable amount of cold dark matter (CDM), responsible for…

In this work we model two non-linear directly interacting scenarios in dark sector of the universe with the dimensionless parameter $\alpha$ and $\beta$, which dominate the energy exchange between dark energy and dark matter. The central…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-08 Jiangang Kang

The present work is a second in the series of investigation of the background dynamics in brane cosmology when dark energy is coupled to dark matter by a suitable interaction. Here, dark matter is chosen in the form of perfect fluid with…

General Physics · Physics 2019-06-21 Sujay Kr. Biswas , Subenoy Chakraborty

Numerical simulations show that a long-range scalar interaction in a single species of massive dark matter particles causes voids between the concentrations of large galaxies to be more nearly empty, suppresses accretion of intergalactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Adi Nusser , S. S. Gubser , P. J. E. Peebles

The main goal of this work is to propose a generalized model of interacting dark energy which allows for the kinetic term of a scalar field to couple to the matter species a priori in the action. We derive the modified field equations, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-01 Bruno J. Barros

Cosmology with a three-form field interacting with cold dark matter is considered. In particular, the mass of the dark matter particles is assumed to depend upon the amplitude of the three-form field invariant. In comparison to coupled…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Tomi S. Koivisto , Nelson J. Nunes

In this paper, we study the effects of an interaction between dark matter and dark energy through a two scalar field model with a potential $V(\phi,\chi)=e^{-\lambda\phi}P(\phi,\chi)$, where $P(\phi,\chi)$ is a polynomial. We show that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-12-21 Orfeu Bertolami , Pedro Carrilho , Jorge Páramos

We investigate the effects of a coupled Dark Energy (cDE) scalar field on the alignment between satellites and matter distributions in galaxy clusters. Using high-resolution N-body simulations for LCDM and cDE cosmological models, we…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Marco Baldi , Jounghun Lee , Andrea V. Maccio

In this paper, we introduce a new interacting mechanism within the dark sector, encompassing both dark energy and dark matter, while grounding our analysis in the familiar framework of the $\mathrm{\Lambda CDM}$ model augmented by baryons…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-13 Martín G. Richarte , Luiz F. Guimarães , Susana J. Landau , Júlio C. Fabris