100 research outputs found
Dark matter from dark energy-baryonic matter couplings
We present a scenario in which a scalar field dark energy is coupled to the
trace of the energy momentum tensor of the baryonic matter fields. In the
slow-roll regime, this interaction could give rise to the cosmological features
of dark matter. We work out the cosmological background solutions and fit the
parameters of the model using the Union 2 supernovae data set. Then, we develop
the cosmological perturbations up to linear order, and we find that the
perturbed variables have an acceptable behavior, in particular the density
contrast of baryonic matter grows similar to that in the CDM model for
a suitable choice of the strength parameter of the coupling.Comment: 10 pages, 8 figures, in this version small typos are corrected and it
matches the published version in Phys. Rev. D15, January 201
Remarks on a five-dimensional Kaluza-Klein theory of the massive Dirac monopole
The Gross-Perry-Sorkin spacetime, formed by the Euclidean Taub-NUT space with
the time trivially added, is the appropriate background of the Dirac magnetic
monopole without an explicit mass term. One remarks that there exists a very
simple five-dimensional metric of spacetimes carrying massive magnetic
monopoles that is an exact solution of the vacuum Einstein equations. Moreover,
the same isometry properties as the original Euclidean Taub-NUT space are
preserved. This leads to an Abelian Kaluza-Klein theory whose metric appears as
a combinations between the Gross-Perry-Sorkin and Schwarzschild ones. The
asymptotic motion of the scalar charged test particles is discussed, now by
accounting for the mixing between the gravitational and magnetic effects.Comment: 7 page
The Power Spectrum in de Sitter Inflation, Revisited
We find that the amplitude of quantum fluctuations of the invariant de Sitter
vacuum coincides exactly with that of the vacuum of a comoving observer for a
massless scalar (inflaton) field. We propose redefining the actual physical
power spectrum as the difference between the amplitudes of the above vacua. An
inertial particle detector continues to observe the Gibbons-Hawking
temperature. However, although the resulting power spectrum is still
scale-free, its amplitude can be drastically reduced since now, instead of the
Hubble's scale at the inflationary period, it is determined by the square of
the mass of the inflaton fluctuation field.Comment: 4 page
Particle creation in a Robertson-Walker Universe revisited
We reanalyze the problem of particle creation in a 3+1 spatially closed
Robertson-Walker space-time. We compute the total number of particles produced
by this non-stationary gravitational background as well as the corresponding
total energy and find a slight discrepancy between our results and those
recently obtained in the literatur
Trace anomaly of the conformal gauge field
The proposed by Bastianelli and van Nieuwenhuizen new method of calculations
of trace anomalies is applied in the conformal gauge field case. The result is
then reproduced by the heat equation method. An error in previous calculation
is corrected. It is pointed out that the introducing gauge symmetries into a
given system by a field-enlarging transformation can result in unexpected
quantum effects even for trivial configurations.Comment: 9 pages, LaTeX file, BI-TP 93/3
Inflation, Renormalization, and CMB Anisotropies
In single-field, slow-roll inflationary models, scalar and tensorial
(Gaussian) perturbations are both characterized by a zero mean and a non-zero
variance. In position space, the corresponding variance of those fields
diverges in the ultraviolet. The requirement of a finite variance in position
space forces its regularization via quantum field renormalization in an
expanding universe. This has an important impact on the predicted scalar and
tensorial power spectra for wavelengths that today are at observable scales. In
particular, we find a non-trivial change in the consistency condition that
relates the tensor-to-scalar ratio "r" to the spectral indices. For instance,
an exact scale-invariant tensorial power spectrum, n_t=0, is now compatible
with a non-zero ratio r= 0.12 +/- 0.06, which is forbidden by the standard
prediction (r=-8n_t). Forthcoming observations of the influence of relic
gravitational waves on the CMB will offer a non-trivial test of the new
predictions.Comment: 4 pages, jpconf.cls, to appear in the Proceedings of Spanish
Relativity Meeting 2009 (ERE 09), Bilbao (Spain
One Loop Corrected Mode Functions for SQED during Inflation
We solve the one loop effective scalar field equations for spatial plane
waves in massless, minimally coupled scalar quantum electrodynamics on a
locally de Sitter background. The computation is done in two different gauges:
a non-de Sitter invariant analogue of Feynman gauge, and in the de Sitter
invariant, Lorentz gauge. In each case our result is that the finite part of
the conformal counterterm can be chosen so that the mode functions experience
no significant one loop corrections at late times. This is in perfect agreement
with a recent, all orders stochastic prediction.Comment: 26 pages, uses LaTeX 2 epsilon, no figures, version 2 has an updated
reference lis
Entanglement of Dirac fields in non-inertial frames
We analyze the entanglement between two modes of a free Dirac field as seen
by two relatively accelerated parties. The entanglement is degraded by the
Unruh effect and asymptotically reaches a non-vanishing minimum value in the
infinite acceleration limit. This means that the state always remains entangled
to a degree and can be used in quantum information tasks, such as
teleportation, between parties in relative uniform acceleration. We analyze our
results from the point of view afforded by the phenomenon of entanglement
sharing and in terms of recent results in the area of multi-qubit
complementarity.Comment: 15 pages, with 8 figures (Mar 2006); accepted to Physical Review A,
July 2006 - slightly revise
Is life a thermal horizon ?
This talk aims at questioning the vanishing of Unruh temperature for an
inertial observer in Minkovski spacetime with finite lifetime, arguing that in
the non eternal case the existence of a causal horizon is not linked to the
non-vanishing of the acceleration. This is illustrated by a previous result,
the diamonds temperature, that adapts the algebraic approach of Unruh effect to
the finite case.Comment: Proceedings of the conference DICE 2006, Piombino september 200
Quantum Fields in an Expanding Universe
We extend our analysis for scalar fields in a Robertson-Walker metric to the
electromagnetic field and Dirac fields by the method of invariants. The issue
of the relation between conformal properties and particle production is
re-examined and it is verified that the electromagnetic and massless spinor
actions are conformal invariant, while the massless conformally coupled scalar
field is not. For the scalar field case it is pointed out that the violation of
conformal simmetry due to surface terms, although ininfluential for the
equation of motion, does lead to effects in the quantized theory.Comment: 15 pp, no figures, accepted for publication in Class. Quantum Gra
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