Inflation dynamics and reheating

BA Bassett, S Tsujikawa, D Wands - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2006 - APS
The theory of inflation with single and multiple fields is reviewed paying particular attention
to the dynamics of adiabatic and entropy/isocurvature perturbations which provide the …

[图书][B] Nonequilibrium quantum field theory

EA Calzetta, BLB Hu - 2009 - library.oapen.org
Bringing together the key ideas from nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and powerful
methodology from quantum field theory, this 2008 book captures the essence of …

Quantum field theory based quantum information: Measurements and correlations

C Anastopoulos, BL Hu, K Savvidou - Annals of Physics, 2023 - Elsevier
This is the first in a series of papers aiming to develop a relativistic quantum information
theory in terms of unequal-time correlation functions in quantum field theory. In this work, we …

Geometric reheating after inflation

BA Bassett, S Liberati - Physical Review D, 1998 - APS
Inflationary reheating via resonant production of non-minimally coupled scalar particles with
only gravitational coupling is shown to be extremely strong, exhibiting a negative coupling …

On resumming inflationary perturbations beyond one-loop

A Riotto, MS Sloth - Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle …, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
It is well known that the correlation functions of a scalar field in a quasi-de Sitter space
exhibit at the loop level cumulative infrared effects proportional to the total number of e …

Decoherence during inflation: The generation of classical inhomogeneities

FC Lombardo, DL Nacir - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation …, 2005 - APS
We show how the quantum-to-classical transition of the cosmological fluctuations produced
during inflation can be described by means of the influence functional and the master …

Affinity for scalar fields to dissipate

A Berera, RO Ramos - Physical Review D, 2001 - APS
The zero-temperature effective equation of motion is derived for a scalar field interacting with
other fields. For a broad range of cases, involving interaction with as few as one or two …

Quantum corrections to slow roll inflation and new scaling of superhorizon fluctuations

D Boyanovsky, HJ de Vega, NG Sanchez - Nuclear Physics B, 2006 - Elsevier
Precise cosmological data from WMAP and forthcoming cosmic microwave background
experiments motivate the study of the quantum corrections to the slow roll inflationary …

The Effective Theory of Inflation in the Standard Model of the Universe and the CMB+ LSS data analysis

D Boyanovsky, C Destri, HJ de Vega… - International Journal of …, 2009 - World Scientific
Inflation is today a part of the Standard Model of the Universe supported by the cosmic
microwave background (CMB) and large scale structure (LSS) datasets. Inflation solves the …

Axions: Bose Einstein condensate or classical field?

S Davidson - Astroparticle Physics, 2015 - Elsevier
The axion is a motivated dark matter candidate, so it would be interesting to find features in
Large Scale Structures specific to axion dark matter. Such features were proposed for a …