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In this letter we show that, at its fundamental level, phantom dark energy is a fluid made up of time crystals that permeate the fabric of space-time. In turn, any well-behaved stable theory of a non-canonical scalar field that acts as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-27 Laura Mersini-Houghton

Cosmological time crystals are created when a scalar field moves periodically through phase space in a spatially flat Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetime due to the presence of a limit cycle. All such cosmological time crystals in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-13 Damien A. Easson , Tucker Manton

Motivated by the apparent discrepancy between Cosmic Microwave Background measurements of the Hubble constant and measurements from Type-Ia supernovae, we construct a model for Dark Energy with equation of state $w = p / \rho < -1$,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-31 Gabriela Barenboim , William H. Kinney , Michael J. P. Morse

We explore the properties of dark energy models for which the equation-of-state, w, defined as the ratio of pressure to energy density, crosses the cosmological-constant boundary w = -1. We adopt an empirical approach, treating the dark…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-06 Robert R. Caldwell , Michael Doran

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

We introduce a novel class of field theories where energy always flows along timelike geodesics, mimicking in that respect dust, yet which possess non-zero pressure. This theory comprises two scalar fields, one of which is a Lagrange…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Eugene A. Lim , Ignacy Sawicki , Alexander Vikman

We demonstrate that a scalar field is unable to reverse its direction of motion while continuously exchanging energy with another fluid. If the rate of transfer is modulated by the scalar's acceleration, the field can undergo a rapid…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-15 Fergus Simpson , Raul Jimenez , Carlos Pena-Garay , Licia Verde

We demonstrate that the thermodynamics of a perfect fluid describing baryonic matter can, in certain limits, lead to an equation of state similar to that of dark energy. We keep the cosmic fluid equation of state quite general by just…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-26 Georgios Lukes-Gerakopoulos , Giovanni Acquaviva , Charalampos Markakis

Dark energy with the usually used equation of state $p=w\rho$, where $w=const<0$ is hydrodynamically unstable. To overcome this drawback we consider the cosmology of a perfect fluid with a linear equation of state of a more general form…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 E. Babichev , V. Dokuchaev , Yu. Eroshenko

Time crystals are a phase of matter, for which the discrete time symmetry of the driving Hamiltonian is spontaneously broken. The breaking of discrete time symmetry has been observed in several experiments in driven spin systems. Here, we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-11-07 Jasper Smits , Lei Liao , Henk Stoof , Peter van der Straten

In this note, we investigate the stability of the dark energy model from time crystals proposed in [1]. We emphasize two ingredients, the coupling of the scalar field to gravity, and the fact that these time crystals are on an expanding FRW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-27 Laura Mersini-Houghton

A model demonstrating existence of a thermodynamically stable quantum time-space crystal has been proposed and studied. This state is characterized by an order parameter periodic in both real and imaginary times. The average of the order…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-25 Konstantin B. Efetov

Time crystals are unexpected states of matter that spontaneously break time translation symmetry either in a discrete or continuous manner. However, spatially-mesoscale space-time crystals that break both the space and time symmetries have…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-24 Hanqing Zhao , Ivan I. Smalyukh

Dark energy cosmologies with an equation of state parameter $w$ less than -1 are often found to violate the null energy condition and show unstable behaviour. A solution to this problem may require the existence of a consistent effective…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-04-22 Ben M. Leith , Ishwaree P. Neupane

Coherent oscillations of a scalar field can mimic the behavior of a perfect fluid with an equation-of-state parameter determined by the properties of the potential, possibly driving accelerated expansion in the early Universe (inflation)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-23 Matthew C. Johnson , Marc Kamionkowski

Phantom energy can be visualized as a scalar field with a (non-canonical) negative kinetic energy term. We use the dynamical system formalism to study the attractor behavior of a cosmological model containing a phantom scalar field $\phi$…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Arturo Urena-Lopez

In this paper, we study damped oscillating form of dark energy for explaining dynamics of universe. First of all, we consider universe is filled with an ideal fluid which has damped oscillating dark energy in terms of this case we calculate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-13 Nilay Bostan , Ekrem Aydiner

The solution of the dark energy problem in models without scalars is presented. It is shown that a late-time accelerating cosmology may be generated by an ideal fluid with some implicit equation of state.

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Gorbunova

Time crystals, a phase showing spontaneous breaking of time-translation symmetry, has been an intriguing subject for systems far away from equilibrium. Recent experiments found such a phase both in the presence and absence of localization,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-03-21 Biao Huang , Ying-Hai Wu , W. Vincent Liu

Dark energy constraints have forced viable alternatives that differ substantially from a cosmological constant Lambda to have an equation of state w that evolves across the phantom divide set by Lambda. Naively, crossing this divide makes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Wayne Hu
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