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We investigate when effective theories of a scalar field on (quasi-)de Sitter background break down through the stochastic formalism. We derive the Fokker-Planck equation leaving the second order time derivative of the scalar field.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-05-10 Rio Saitou

During inflation explicit perturbative computations of quantum field theories which contain massless, non-conformal fields exhibit secular effects that grow as powers of the logarithm of the inflationary scale factor. Starobinski\u{\i}'s…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. P. Woodard

In this work we generalize a previously developed semiclassical approach to inflation, devoted to the analysis of the effective dynamics of coarse-grained fields, which are essential to the stochastic approach to inflation. We consider…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-19 H. Casini , R. Montemayor , P. Sisterna

We study the stochastic formalism of inflation beyond the usual slow-roll approximation. We verify that the assumptions on which the stochastic formalism relies still hold even far from the slow-roll attractor. This includes demonstrating…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-05 Chris Pattison , Vincent Vennin , Hooshyar Assadullahi , David Wands

We point out that inflationary superhorizon fluctuations can be effectively described by a set of equations analogous to those governing a superfluid. This is achieved through a functional Schr\"odinger approach to the evolution of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-05 Gianmassimo Tasinato

We study multiple fields inflation in diffusion dominated regime using stochastic $\delta N$ formalism. The fields are under pure Brownian motion in a dS background with boundaries in higher dimensional field space. This setup can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-04 Kosar Asadi , Amin Nassiri-Rad , Hassan Firouzjahi

The stochastic effective theory approach, often called stochastic inflation, is widely used in cosmology to describe scalar field dynamics during inflation. The existing formulations are, however, more qualitative than quantitative because…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-29 Archie Cable , Arttu Rajantie

The formalism of stochastic inflation is a powerful tool for analyzing the backreaction of cosmological perturbations, and making precise predictions for inflationary observables. We demonstrate this with the simple $m^2\phi^2$ model of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-09-02 Laurence Perreault Levasseur , Evan McDonough

We consider stochastic inflation coarse-grained using a general class of exponential filters. Such a coarse-graining prescription gives rise to inflaton-Langevin equations sourced by colored noise that is correlated in $e$-fold time. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-19 Rafid Mahbub , Aritra De

We provide a study of the effects of the Effective Field Theory (EFT) generalisation of stochastic inflation on the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) in a model-independent single-field context. We demonstrate how the scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-05 Sayantan Choudhury

We study the power spectrum of super-Hubble fluctuations of an inflaton-like scalar field, the "system", coupled to another scalar field, the "environment" during de Sitter inflation. We obtain the reduced density matrix for the inflaton…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-07-29 D. Boyanovsky

We introduce a self-consistent stochastic coarse-graining method, which includes both metric and scalar field fluctuations, to investigate the back reaction of long wavelength perturbations in single-scalar driven inflation, up to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-08-29 Ghazal Geshnizjani , Niayesh Afshordi

A notion of stochastic deformation is introduced and the corresponding algebraic deformation procedure is developed. This procedure is analogous to the deformation of an algebra of observables like deformation quantization, but for an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-04-19 P. O. Kazinski

Results are presented from numerical experiments aiming at the computation of stochastic phase-field models for phase transformations by coarse-graining molecular dynamics. The studied phase transformations occur between a solid crystal and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-08-11 Erik von Schwerin

We revisit the Lagrangian formulation of stochastic inflation, where the path-integral approach is employed to derive the Langevin equation governing the dynamics of long-wavelength fields, in contrast to the standard method where the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-06 Rajat Kumar Panda , Sukanta Panda , Abbas Tinwala

Motivated by trans-Planckian issues in inflation, we determine the Hilbert space and amplitudes of quantum perturbations in the general low-energy effective theory of (multi-)field inflation without relying on the sub-horizon limit. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-05-29 Andrea Ambrosi de Magistris , Alberto Salvio

We present a systematic treatment of non-Gaussianity in stochastic systems using the Schwinger-Keldysh effective field theory framework, in which the non-Gaussianity is realized as nonlinear terms in the fluctuation field. We establish two…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-02-15 Shu Lin , Yanyan Bu , Chang Lei

Diffusion of particles in velocity space undergoing turbulent field was extensively studied in the problem of warm beam relaxation. Under low field intensities the diffusion is described by the Fokker-Planck equation with the diffusion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Anatoly Zagorodny , Volodymyr Zasenko , Jan Weiland

In this work, the primary goal is to establish rigorous connection between the Fokker-Planck equation of neural networks with its microscopic model: the diffusion-jump stochastic process that captures the mean field behavior of collections…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-11-01 Jian-guo Liu , Ziheng Wang , Yuan Zhang , Zhennan Zhou

During inflation explicit perturbative computations of quantum field theories which contain massless, non-conformal fields exhibit secular effects that grow as powers of the logarithm of the inflationary scale factor. Starobinskii's…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 N. C. Tsamis , R. P. Woodard