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We consider the possibility of a gravitationally induced particle production through the mechanism of a nonminimal curvature-matter coupling. An interesting feature of this gravitational theory is that the divergence of the energy-momentum…

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We investigate the non-perturbative production of scalar particles within the Higgs-$R^2$ inflation model, focusing on a massive spectator field that interacts gravitationally via a non-minimal coupling to the Ricci scalar $R$. By…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-15 Flavio Pineda , Luis O. Pimentel

We explore the possibility of gravitationally generated particle production in the scalar-tensor representation of $f(R,T)$ gravity. Due to the explicit nonminimal curvature-matter coupling in the theory, the divergence of the matter…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-02 Miguel A. S. Pinto , Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo

We investigate the production of dark matter from curvature perturbations produced during inflation or in standard cosmology, for example during first order phase transitions. Perturbations break Weyl flatness of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-06 Raghuveer Garani , Michele Redi , Andrea Tesi

In this paper, we study the problem of massless particle creation in a flat, homogeneous and isotropic universe in the framework of $f(G)$ gravity. The Bogolyubov coefficients are calculated for the accelerating power-law solutions of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-09-03 R. Rashidi , F. Ahmadi , M. R. Setare

We study production of free and feebly interacting scalars during inflation using the Bogolyubov coefficient and Starobinsky stochastic approaches. While the two methods agree in the limit of infinitely long inflation, the Starobinsky…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-03 Duarte Feiteira , Oleg Lebedev

A theory of gravitational production of light scalar particles during and after inflation is investigated. We show that in the most interesting cases where long-wavelength fluctuations of light scalar fields can be generated during…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Gary Felder , Lev Kofman , Andrei Linde

We study production of light particles due to oscillation of the Hubble parameter or the scale factor. Any coherently oscillating scalar field, irrespective of its energy fraction in the universe, imprints such an oscillating feature on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-05 Yohei Ema , Ryusuke Jinno , Kyohei Mukaida , Kazunori Nakayama

We investigate the gravitational particle production from vacuum for a minimally coupled fermionic spectator field during a single-field inflationary phase. We observe that metric perturbations arising from the quantum fluctuations of a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-04 Alessio Belfiglio , Orlando Luongo

The scalar particle production through a scalar field non-minimally coupled with geometry is investigated in the context of a spatially homogeneous and isotropic universe. In this paper, in order to study the evolution of particle…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-09 Hao Yu , Wen-Di Guo , Ke Yang , Yu-Xiao Liu

Cosmological production of scalar, non-minimally coupled dark matter depends on the specifics of the inflationary model under consideration. We analyze both Starobinsky inflation and a quadratic potential, solve the full background…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-24 Jose A. R. Cembranos , Luis J. Garay , Álvaro Parra-López , Javier Ortega del Río

We investigate the possibility of gravitationally generated particle production via the mechanism of nonminimal torsion--matter coupling. An intriguing feature of this theory is that the divergence of the matter energy--momentum tensor does…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-07-06 Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo , Emmanuel N. Saridakis

By using the thermodynamic theory of irreversible processes and Einstein general relativity, a cosmological model is proposed where the early universe is considered as a mixture of a scalar field with a matter field. The scalar field refers…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 G. M. Kremer , F. P. Devecchi

Gravitational particle production has been investigated by using Einstein's gravitational field equations in the presence of a cosmological constant. To study the mechanism of particle creation, the Universe has been considered as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-04-07 Z. Safari , B. Malekolkalami , H. Moshafi

We analyze cosmological particle production driven by spacetime expansion in the early universe for homogeneous and isotropic cosmologies with positive, negative, and zero spatial curvature. We prioritize analytical results to gain a deeper…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-06 Jose A. R. Cembranos , Luis J. Garay , Álvaro Parra-López

We investigate the inhomogeneous inflation, in which the space exponentially expands with inhomogeneities, and its cosmological perturbations. The inhomogeneous inflation is realized by introducing scalar fields with spacelike gradients…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-09-11 Xian Gao , Chao Kang

We set up a formalism for calculating the energy density generated in a quantized massive scalar field in the course of the drastic change in spacetime geometry at the end of the inflationary era. The calculation relies on the notion of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-11 Urjit A. Yajnik

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 consider a gravitational analogue of the Schwinger effect in a cosmological context. While the Schwinger effect is usually attributed to a static electric background, its derivation is actually based on a switching on/off of the electric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-13 Walter D. van Suijlekom , Michael F. Wondrak , Heino Falcke

Analytic and numerical techniques are presented for computing gravitational production of scalar particles in the limit that the inflaton mass is much larger than the Hubble expansion rate at the end of inflation. These techniques rely upon…

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