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Recent data and new data analysis methods show that most probably the parameter $w$ in the equation of state of the dark energy is smaller than -1 at low redshifts. We briefly review some of the models with such a property and without…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Houri Ziaeepour

Cosmological observations of the recent universe suggest that dark energy equation of state parameter $w$ is growing with time, departing from a cosmological constant for which $w=-1$. Standard quintessence models allow for a varying…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-07-11 David Andriot

A basic aim of ongoing and upcoming cosmological surveys is to unravel the mystery of dark energy. In the absence of a compelling theory to test, a natural approach is to better characterize the properties of dark energy in search of clues…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 Tracy Holsclaw , Ujjaini Alam , Bruno Sanso , Herbert Lee , Katrin Heitmann , Salman Habib , David Higdon

When CMB data are used to derive cosmological parameters, their very choice does matter: some parameter values can be biased if the parameter space does not cover the "true" model. This is a problem, because of the difficulty to parametrize…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Giuseppe La Vacca , Loris P. L. Colombo , Luca Vergani , Silvio A. Bonometto

We study the Friedmann-Robertson-Walker model with dynamical dark energy modelled in terms of the equation of state $p_{x}=w_{x}(a(z)) \rho_{x}$ in which the coefficient $w_{x}$ is parameterized by the scale factor $a$ or redshift $z$. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-06-14 Marek Szydlowski , Orest Hrycyna

For exploring the physics behind the accelerating universe a crucial question is how much we can learn about the dynamics through next generation cosmological experiments. For example, in defining the dark energy behavior through an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-12 Eric V. Linder , Dragan Huterer

We examine phantom dark energy models produced by a field with a negative kinetic term and a potential that satisfies the slow roll conditions: [(1/V)(dV/dphi)]^2 << 1 and (1/V)(d^2 V/dphi^2) << 1. Such models provide a natural mechanism to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Robert J. Scherrer , A. A. Sen

Most parameterizations of the dark energy equation of state do not reflect realistic underlying physical models. Here, we develop a relatively simple description of dark energy based on the dynamics of a scalar field which is exact in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Robert Crittenden , Elisabetta Majerotto , Federico Piazza

We study the dynamical properties of dark energy based on a large family of PADE parameterizations for which the dark energy density evolves as a ratio between two polynomials in the scale factor of the universe. Using the latest…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-14 A. Mehrabi , S. Basilakos

A model-independent method to study the possible evolution of dark energy is presented. Optimal estimates of the dark energy equation of state w are obtained from current supernovae data from Riess et al. (2004) following a principal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Christian Stephan-Otto

We develop an efficient, non-parametric Bayesian method for reconstructing the time evolution of the dark energy equation of state w(z) from observational data. Of particular importance is the choice of prior, which must be chosen carefully…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Robert G. Crittenden , Gong-Bo Zhao , Levon Pogosian , Lado Samushia , Xinmin Zhang

In this paper, we set the new limits on the equation of state parameter (EoS) of dark energy with the observations of cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) from Planck satellite, the type Ia supernovae from Pan-STARRS and the baryon…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-15 Wei Zheng , Si-Yu Li , Hong Li , Jun-Qing Xia , Mingzhe Li , Tan Lu

Equation of state parameter plays a significant role for guessing the real nature of dark energy. In the present paper polytropic equation of state $p=\omega\rho^n$ is chosen for some of the kinematical $\Lambda$-models viz., $\Lambda \sim…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-11 Utpal Mukhopadhyay , Saibal Ray

In this paper, we revisit the parameterizations of the equation of state of dark energy and point out that comparing merely the $\chi^2$ of different fittings may not be optimal for choosing the "best" parametrization. Another figure of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dao-Jun Liu , Xin-Zhou Li , Jiangang Hao , Xing-Hua Jin

By combining data from seven cosmic microwave background experiments (including the latest WMAP results) with large scale structure data, the Hubble parameter measurement from the Hubble Space Telescope and luminosity measurements of Type…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Alessandro Melchiorri , Laura Mersini , Carolina J. Odman , Mark Trodden

We solve the problem of quantum state discrimination with "general (symmetric) figures of merit" for an even number of symmetric quantum bits with use of the no-signaling principle. It turns out that conditional probability has the same…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Won-Young Hwang , Yeong-Deok Han

We examine the behavior of dark energy models in the plane defined by w (the equation of state parameter for the dark energy) and w' (the derivative of w with respect to the logarithm of the scale factor). For non-phantom barotropic fluids…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Robert J. Scherrer

A review on spatially flat D-dimensional Friedmann-Robertson-Walker (FRW) model of the universe has been performed. Some standard parameterizations of the equation of state parameter of the Dark Energy models are proposed and the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-03-26 Tanwi Bandyopadhyay , Ujjal Debnath

We introduce a set of two-parameter models for the dark energy equation of state (EOS) $w(z)$ to investigate time-varying dark energy. The models are classified into two types according to their boundary behaviors at the redshift…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Qing-Jun Zhang , Yue-Liang Wu

Time-varying dark energy is often modeled in observational analyses through generic parameterizations of its equation of state $w(z)$, which typically use two free parameters $\{w_0, w_a\}$ to span a broad range of behaviors as a function…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-27 David Shlivko , Paul J. Steinhardt , Charles L. Steinhardt