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We present an Effective Field Theory based reconstruction of quintessence models of dark energy directly from cosmological data. We show that current cosmological data possess enough constraining power to test several quintessence model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-26 Minsu Park , Marco Raveri , Bhuvnesh Jain

We present a quintessence model for the dark energy in which the quintessence scalar field is produced by the decay of a super heavy dark matter and gradually condensate to a classical scalar field. This model can explain both the smallness…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Houri Ziaeepour

Non-minimally coupled scalar field models of dark energy are equivalent to an interacting quintessence in the Einstein's frame. Considering two special important choices of the potential of the scalar field, i.e. nearly flat and thawing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-27 A. Shojai , F. Shojai

The recent observational evidence of deviations from the $\Lambda$-Cold Dark Matter ($\Lambda$CDM) model points towards the presence of evolving dark energy. The simplest possibility consists of a cosmological scalar field $\varphi$, dubbed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-20 William J. Wolf , Carlos García-García , Theodore Anton , Pedro G. Ferreira

We consider different classes of scalar field models including quintessence, and tachyon scalar fields with a variety of generic potential belonging to thawing type. Assuming the scalar field is initially frozen at $w=-1$, we evolve the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 S. Sen , A. A. Sen , M. Sami

In light of recent observations by the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), we study evidence for thawing quintessence over a cosmological constant as dark energy, with emphasis on the effect of the choice of priors. Working with a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-03 Guillaume Payeur , Evan McDonough , Robert Brandenberger

Recent observations suggest that the accelerated expansion of the Universe at late times is caused by a temporally changing dark energy component, rather than the constant one in the standard $\Lambda$CDM scenario. In this context…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-11-05 Artur Alho , Elsa Bernholm , Claes Uggla

We perform a comprehensive study of a class of dark energy models - scalar field models where the effective potential can be described by a polynomial series - exploring their dynamical behavior using the method of flow equations that has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Dragan Huterer , Hiranya V. Peiris

We focus on minimally coupled (multi)field quintessence models, of thawing type, and their realistic solutions. In a model-independent manner, we describe analytically these cosmological solutions throughout the universe history. Starting…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-05-26 David Andriot

In this work we examine the 2025 DESI analysis of dark energy, which suggests that dark energy is evolving in time with an increasing equation of state $w$. We explore a wide range of quintessence models, described by a potential function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-20 Husam Adam , Mark P. Hertzberg , Daniel Jiménez-Aguilar , Iman Khan

We derive general conditions for the existence of stable scaling solutions for the evolution of noncanonical quintessence, with a Lagrangian of the form $\mathcal{L}(X,\phi)=X^{\alpha}-V(\phi)$, for power-law and exponential potentials when…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-20 Dan Li , Robert J. Scherrer

We examine a dark energy model where a scalar unparticle degree of freedom plays the role of quintessence. In particular, we study a model where the unparticle degree of freedom has a standard kinetic term and a simple mass potential, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 De-Chang Dai , Sourish Dutta , Dejan Stojkovic

We search for physically consistent realizations of evolving dark energy suggested by the cosmological fit of DESI, Planck and Supernovae data. First we note that any lagrangian description of the standard Chevallier-Polarski-Linder (CPL)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-18 Alessio Notari , Michele Redi , Andrea Tesi

The archetypal theory of dark energy is quintessence: a minimally coupled scalar field with a canonical kinetic energy and potential. By studying random potentials we show that quintessence imposes a restricted set of priors on the equation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-11 David J. E. Marsh , Philip Bull , Pedro G. Ferreira , Andrew Pontzen

We show that a Universe with a nonminimally coupled scalar field can fit current measurements of the expansion rate of the Universe better than the standard $\Lambda$-Cold Dark Matter ($\Lambda$CDM) model or other minimally coupled dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-10 William J. Wolf , Pedro G. Ferreira , Carlos García-García

We consider the thawing model in the framework of coupled quintessence model. The effective potential has $Z_2$ symmetry which is broken spontaneously when the dark matter density becomes less than a critical value leading the quintessence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-21 M. Honardoost , H. Mohseni Sadjadi , H. R. Sepangi

We consider a dark energy model with a relation between the equation of state parameter $w$ and the energy density parameter $\Omega_\phi$ derived from thawing scalar field models. Assuming the variation of the fine structure constant is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-13 Qing Gao , Yungui Gong

We present constraints on quintessence dark energy models using the observational detection of the Integrated Sachs-Wolfe (ISW)--thermal Sunyaev-Zeldovich (tSZ) cross-correlation dataset. Our analysis compares three classes of quintessence…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-04 Ayodeji Ibitoye , Shiriny Akthar , Md. Wali Hossain , Amare Abebe , Prabhakar Tiwari , Xuelei Chen , Jackson Said , Jacob Oloketuyi

We examine a quintessence model with a modified exponential potential given by $V(\phi) = V_0(1+e^{-\lambda \phi})$. Unlike quintessence with a standard exponential potential, our model can yield an acceptable accelerated expansion at late…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-02 Hui-Yiing Chang , Robert J. Scherrer

We study the evolution of spatial curvature for thawing class of dark energy models. We examine the evolution of the equation of state parameter, $w_\phi$, as a function of the scale factor $a$, for the case in which the scalar field $\phi$…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-01-27 Sergio del Campo , Victor H. Cardenas , Ramon Herrera