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We heal the cosmological constant problem by means of a \emph{cancellation mechanism} that adopts a phase transition during which quantum fluctuations are eliminated. To this purpose, we propose that a generalized scalar (dark) matter field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-29 Rocco D'Agostino , Orlando Luongo , Marco Muccino

We study the Brownian motion of a field where there are boundaries in the inflationary field space. Both the field and the boundary undergo Brownian motions with the amplitudes of the noises determined by the Hubble expansion rate of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Amin Nassiri-Rad , Kosar Asadi , Hassan Firouzjahi

We discuss a novel scenario for early cosmology, when the inflationary quasi-de Sitter phase dynamically originates from the initial quantum state represented by the microcanonical density matrix. This genuine quantum effect occurs as a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-08-15 Andrey O. Barvinsky , Ariel R. Zhitnitsky

Single-field models of accelerated expansion with nearly flat potentials, despite being able to provide observationally viable explanations for the early-time cosmic inflation and the late-time cosmic acceleration, are in strong tension…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-01-08 George Alestas , Matilda Delgado , Ignacio Ruiz , Yashar Akrami , Miguel Montero , Savvas Nesseris

The detection of a primordial stochastic gravitational wave background has the potential to reveal unprecedented insights into the early universe, and possibly into the dynamics of inflation. Generically, UV-complete inflationary models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-08 Vikas Aragam , Sonia Paban , Robert Rosati

We consider effects of the isocurvature perturbation in the framework of the tracker-type quintessence models. During the inflation, fluctuations in the amplitude of the quintessence field are generated, which provide isocurvature component…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Masahiro Kawasaki , Takeo Moroi , Tomo Takahashi

We investigate cosmology with complex scalar field. It is shown that such models can describe two stages of inflation and the oscillatory regime. Thus we don't need both quintessence and $\Lambda$-term. It is enough to have single complex…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Yurov

Investigating the thermal inflationary model, we introduce stochastic effects, incorporating a cutoff parameter $\sigma$ which distinguishes between quantum and classical modes. Testing the model against Planck 2018 data, we observe a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-04-17 Abbas Tinwala , Ashish Narang , Subhendra Mohanty , Sukanta Panda

The possibility of the resilience of the beginning of inflation under unfavorable conditions is examined by considering the initial state of the inflaton field to be in the form of a relativistic gas with some of its properties in close…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-04-05 Lasha Berezhiani , Mark Trodden

Most high-energy constructions that realise a phase of cosmic inflation contain many degrees of freedom. Yet, cosmological observations are all consistent with single-field embeddings. We show how volume selection effects explain this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-24 Koki Tokeshi , Vincent Vennin

Two extensions of ideas lying in the basis of the inflationary scenario of the early Universe and their effect on the large scale structure of the present-day Universe are discussed. The first of them is the possibility of fast phase…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Starobinsky

In this paper, with the presence of swampland conjecture, we use the complex form of a scalar field and investigate the anisotropic constant-roll of an inflationary scenario. Recently, the complex quintessence field has been used to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-17 Jafar Sadeghi , Saeed Noori Gashti , Mehdi Shokri

During cosmological inflation, it has been suggested that fields coupled to the inflaton can be excited by the slow-rolling inflaton into a quasi-stable non-vacuum state. Within this scenario of ``warm inflation'', this could allow for a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Gert Aarts , Anders Tranberg

By making use of a class of steep exponential type of potentials, which has been recently used to describe quintessential inflation, we show how a unified picture for both inflation, dark energy and dark matter can emerge entirely through…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-20 Gustavo B. F. Lima , Rudnei O. Ramos

How well can we constrain the initial quantum state of metric perturbations sourced during inflation? We exhibit an interesting new class of quantum states that entangle the scalar metric perturbations {\zeta} with other fields such as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-06-04 Andreas Albrecht , Nadia Bolis , R. Holman

Inflation is most often described using quantum field theory (QFT) on a fixed, curved spacetime background. Such a description is valid only if the spatial volume of the region considered is so large that its size and shape moduli behave…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-09-25 Alice Di Tucci , Job Feldbrugge , Jean-Luc Lehners , Neil Turok

It is shown that the inflationary era in early universe is realized due to the effect of backreaction of quantized matter fields. In fact we start by quantizing a free scalar field in the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker space-time, and the field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 Yoshinobu Habara , Hikaru Kawai , Masao Ninomiya

In order to go beyond the mean-field approximation, commonly used in the inflationary computations, an identification of the quantum constituents of the inflationary background is made. In particular, the homogeneous scalar field…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-03-08 Lasha Berezhiani

Combinations of recent cosmological observations, including Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), show hints of a dynamical nature for dark energy. While the data suggest the possibility of the phantom crossing, it is worth…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 Shun Yoshioka , Kiyotomo Ichiki , Yuichiro Tada , Takahiro Terada

We investigate the quintessential inflation in the logarithmic Cartan $F(R)$ gravity. A small logarithmic modification of the general relativity has the potential to introduce both inflation and dark energy. We evaluate the time evolution…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-20 Tomohiro Inagaki , Masahiko Taniguchi