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We study particle production of coherently oscillating inflaton in the semiclassical theory of gravity by representing inflaton in coherent and squeezed state formalisms. A comparative study of the inflaton in classical gravity with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 K. K. Venkataratnam , P. K. Suresh

Using coherent and squeezed state formalisms of quantum optics for a minimally coupled non-classical inflaton in the FRW mertic is studied, in semiclassical theory of gravity. The leading order solution for the semiclassical Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-02-11 K. K. Venkataratnam , P. K. Suresh

We study a massive inflaton minimally coupled to the FRW Universe using the semiclassical gravity derived from canonical quantum gravity. It is found that the semiclassical quantum gravity leads to the power-law expansion $t^{2/3}$ in an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jung Kon Kim , Sang Pyo Kim

We study non-classical inflaton, which is minimally coupled to the semiclassical gravity in FRW universe in Coherent Squeezed Vacuum State (CSVS). We determined Oscillatory phase of inflaton, power-law expansion, scale factor, density…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-19 Dhwani Gangal , Sudhava Yadav , K. K. Venkataratnam

We study cosmological inflation and reheating in the unimodular f(R,T) gravity. During the reheating era, which takes place just after the end of inflation, the energy density of inflaton is converted to radiation energy through, for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-11-23 Fateme Rajabi , Kourosh Nozari

Non-thermal fermionic particle production is investigated in Einstein-Cartan modified gravity with a modified Holst term and non-minimal couplings between the spin connection and a fermion. By using the auxiliary field method, the theory is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-18 Tomohiro Inagaki , Naoki Yoshioka

Environment interaction may induce stochastic semiclassical dynamics in open quantum systems. In the gravitational context, stress-energy fluctuations of quantum matter fields give rise to a stochastic behaviour in the spacetime geometry.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-04-15 Albert Roura , Enric Verdaguer

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 study the problem of scalar particle production after inflation by a rapidly oscillating inflaton field. We use the framework of the chaotic inflation scenario with quartic and quadratic inflaton potentials. Particular attention is paid…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Y. Shtanov , J. Traschen , R. Brandenberger

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

The paper deals with the mechanism of particle creation in the framework of irreversible thermodynamics. The second order non-equilibrium thermodynamical prescription of Israel and Stewart has been presented with particle creation rate,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-05-04 Subenoy Chakraborty , Subhajit Saha

Particle production processes in the expanding universe are described within a simple kinetic model. The equilibrium conditions for a Maxwell-Boltzmann gas with variable particle number are investigated. We find that radiation and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Winfried Zimdahl , Josep Triginer , Diego Pavon

We investigate the formation of spatially localized, oscillatory in time and non topological solitonic, quasi-stable energy configurations, Oscillons, which are formed at the end of Inflationary epoch, during the preheating phase and decay…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-12 Shreyas Upadhye , Sukanta Panda

We investigate the post-inflationary evolution of a non-minimally coupled inflaton field in scalar-tensor theories, framed within the flexible framework of Einstein-Cartan gravity. By focusing on a class of simplified Higgs-like scenarios,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-26 Matteo Piani , Javier Rubio , Francisco Torrenti

According to the inflationary theory of cosmology, most elementary particles in the current universe were created during a period of reheating after inflation. In this work we self-consistently couple the Einstein-inflaton equations to a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-06-03 Christian Ecker , Elias Kiritsis , Wilke van der Schee

In the transition between inflation and reheating, the curvature scalar typically undergoes oscillations which have significant impact on the density of gravitationally produced particles. The commonly used adiabatic vacuum prescription for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-25 Jose A. R. Cembranos , Luis J. Garay , Álvaro Parra-López , Jose M. Sánchez Velázquez

We study particle production aspect in the flat FRW universe in the framework of $f(T)$ gravity. The matter is minimally coupled with the gravity and an exact power-law solution is obtained by solving the Friedmann equations, and matter is…

General Physics · Physics 2013-03-26 M. R. Setare , M. J. S. Houndjo

Particle production and its effects on the inflaton field are investigated during the preheating phase of chaotic inflation using a model consisting of a massive scalar inflaton field coupled to N massless quantum scalar fields. The effects…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-07 Paul R. Anderson , Carmen Molina-Paris , David Evanich , Gregory B. Cook

We study an inflation model with a flat scalar potential supported by observations and find that slow-roll inflation can emerge after a quasi-cyclic phase of the Universe, where it undergoes repeated expansions and contractions for a finite…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-16 Hiroki Matsui , Alexandros Papageorgiou , Fuminobu Takahashi , Takahiro Terada

Thermal history after inflation is studied in a chaotic inflation model with supersymmetric couplings of the inflaton to matter fields. Time evolution equation is solved in a formalism that incorporates both the back reaction of particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 H. Fujisaki , K. Kumekawa , M. Yamaguchi , M. Yoshimura
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