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Particle production from the vacuum is a remarkable aspect of particle physics. Prime examples are the Schwinger process of particle production in strong electric fields and the Hawking process of particle production from black holes. These…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-03-03 Ian G. Moss , Piotr Z. Stasiak

The phenomenon of gravitational particle production can take place for quantum fields in curved spacetime. The abundance and energy spectrum of gravitationally produced particles is typically calculated by solving the field's mode equations…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 Soichiro Hashiba , Siyang Ling , Andrew J. Long

In studying secondary gamma-ray emissions from Primordial Black Holes (PBHs), the production of scalar particles like pions and axion-like particles (ALPs) via Hawking radiation is crucial. While previous analyses assumed relativistic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-08 Hao-Ran Cui , Yuhsin Tsai , Tao Xu

This thesis investigates cosmological particle production within Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetimes, both as a dark matter mechanism and through analog simulations using Bose-Einstein condensates. While a full theory of Quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-12 Álvaro Parra-López

In this paper we present an exact solution to the spectrum of massless particle creation for a power law expansion of the scale factor of the form $t^{2n/3}$ for real scalar particles in a flat and matter dominated universe. Such an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-06-18 S. H. Pereira , J. C. Z. Aguilar , E. C. Romão

We study the emission of large-scales wavelength space-time waves during the inflationary expansion of the universe, produced by back-reaction effects. As an example, we study an inflationary model with variable time scale, where the scale…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-12 Juan Ignacio Musmarra , Mauricio Bellini

We study particles creation in arbitrary space-time dimensions by external electric fields, in particular, by fields, which are acting for a finite time. The time and dimensional analysis of the vacuum instability is presented. It is shown…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 S. P. Gavrilov , D. M. Gitman

We extend the classic results of the paper P. C. W. Davies, S. A. Fulling, and W. G. Unruh "Energy-momentum tensor near an evaporating black hole" by considering a massive scalar field in a two dimensions in the presence of a thin shell…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-22 O. Diatlyk

We discuss particle production in spacetimes endowed with a universal horizon in Einstein--Aether and Horava gravity. We argue that continuity and differentiability of the lapse function require the orientation of the foliation in the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-28 Francesco Del Porro , Mario Herrero-Valea , Stefano Liberati , Marc Schneider

Hawking has predicted that the formation of a black hole by gravitational collapse causes quantum particle creation and the spectrum of the particles is almost thermal. This phenomenon is called the Hawking radiation. Recently, it has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-02 Kazumasa Okabayashi , Tomohiro Harada , Ken-ichi Nakao

In this work, we examine particle creation and the evaporation process in the context of Kalb-Ramond gravity. Specifically, we build upon two existing solutions from the literature [1] (Model I) and [2] (Model II), both addressing a static,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-01 A. A. Araújo Filho

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

The recently proposed states of low energy provide a well-motivated class of reference states for the quantized linear scalar field on cosmological Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetimes. The low energy property of a state is localized close…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-07 Andreas Degner , Rainer Verch

Particle creation during inflation is considered. It could be important for species whose interaction is of gravitational strength or weaker. A complete but economical formalism is given for spin-zero and spin-half particles, and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-25 David H. Lyth , David Roberts

A model for the Universe is proposed where it is considered as a mixture of scalar and matter fields. The particle production is due to an irreversible transfer of energy from the gravitational field to the matter field and represented by a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 G. M. Kremer , M. C. N. Teixeira da Silva

Thermal field theory is applied to particle production rates in inflationary models, leading to new results for catalysed, or two-stage decay, where massive fields act as decay channels for the production of light fields. A numerical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-08 Chris M Graham , Ian G Moss

We discuss the scattering process of a scalar field having a time-dependent mass with another scalar field having a constant mass as a toy model of the scattering problems during preheating after inflation. Despite a general difficulty of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-02-21 Yusuke Yamada

We investigate the gravitational production of scalar dark matter particles during the inflationary and reheating epochs. The oscillatory behavior of the curvature scalar $R$ during the reheating phase generates two different enhancement…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-16 Jose A. R. Cembranos , Luis J. Garay , Jose M. Sánchez Velázquez

We consider various possible consequences of time-varying dark energy due to a quintessence scalar field whose energy density is partially converted to particles as the field evolves down its potential. This particle production acts as a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-21 Nicolas Patino , Paul J. Steinhardt

In this article, we explore an alternative derivation of Hawking radiation. Instead of the field-theoretic derivation, we have suggested a simpler calculation based on quantum mechanical reflection from a one-dimensional potential. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-14 Pritam Nanda , Chiranjeeb Singha , Pabitra Tripathy , Amit Ghosh