287 research outputs found
New nonlocal effective action
We suggest a new method for the calculation of the nonlocal part of the
effective action. It is based on resummation of perturbation series for the
heat kernel and its functional trace at large values of the proper time
parameter. We derive a new, essentially nonperturbative, nonlocal contribution
to the effective action in spacetimes with dimensions .Comment: 28 pages, latex, no figures, typos are corrected, presentation
improve
Charged Scalar Self-Mass during Inflation
We compute the one loop self-mass of a charged massless, minimally coupled
scalar in a locally de Sitter background geometry. The computation is done in
two different gauges: the noninvariant generalization of Feynman gauge which
gives the simplest expression for the photon propagator and the de Sitter
invariant gauge of Allen and Jacobson. In each case dimensional regularization
is employed and fully renormalized results are obtained. By using our result in
the linearized, effective field equations one can infer how the scalar responds
to the dielectric medium produced by inflationary particle production. We also
work out the result for a conformally coupled scalar. Although the conformally
coupled case is of no great physical interest the fact that we obtain a
manifestly de Sitter invariant form for its self-mass-squared establishes that
our noninvariant gauge introduces no physical breaking of de Sitter invariance
at one loop order.Comment: 41 pages, LaTeX 2epsilon, 3 figures, uses axodra
Hardness of materials at high temperature and high pressure
International audienceIntrinsic character of correlation between hardness and thermodynamic properties of solids has been established. The proposed thermodynamic model of hardness allows one to easily estimate hardness and bulk moduli of known or even hypothetical solids from the data on Gibbs energy of atomization of the elements or on the enthalpy at the melting point. The correctness of this approach has been illustrated by an example of the recently synthesized superhard diamond-like BC5 and orthorhombic modification of boron, γ-B28. The pressure and/or temperature dependences of hardness have been calculated for a number of hard and superhard phases, i.e. diamond, cBN, B6O, B4C, SiC, Al2O3, β-B2O3 and β-rh boron. The excellent agreement between experimental and calculated values has been observed for temperature dependences of Vickers and Knoop hardness. Besides, the model predicts that some materials can become harder than diamond already at pressures in the megabar range.
Friedmann Equations from Entropic Force
In this note by use of the holographic principle together with the
equipartition law of energy and the Unruh temperature, we derive the Friedmann
equations of a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe.Comment: latex, 8 pages, v2: minor modifications and to appear in PRD (Rapid
Communication
Breaking scale invariance from a singular inflaton potential
In this paper we break the scale invariance of the primordial power spectrum
of curvature perturbations of inflation. Introducing a singular behaviour due
to spontaneous symmetry breaking in the inflaton potential, we obtain fully
analytic expressions of scale dependent oscillation and a modulation in power
on small scale in the primordial spectrum. And we give the associated cosmic
microwave background and matter power spectra which we can observe now and
discuss the signature of the scale dependence. We also address the possibility
of whether some inflationary model with featured potential might mimic the
predictions of the scale invariant power spectrum. We present some examples
which illustrate such degeneracies.Comment: 20 pages, 9 figures; Discussion expanded and references added;
Miscellaneous typos correcte
Fourth-order gravity as the inflationary model revisited
We revisit the old (fourth-order or quadratically generated) gravity model of
Starobinsky in four space-time dimensions, and derive the (inflaton) scalar
potential in the equivalent scalar-tensor gravity model via a Legendre-Weyl
transform. The inflaton scalar potential is used to compute the (CMB)
observables of inflation associated with curvature perturbations (namely, the
scalar and tensor spectral indices, and the tensor-to-scalar ratio), including
the new next-to-leading-order terms with respect to the inverse number of
e-foldings. The results are compared to the recent (WMAP5) experimental bounds.
We confirm both mathematical and physical equivalence between f(R) gravity
theories and the corresponding scalar-tensor gravity theories.Comment: 10 pages, 1 figure, 1 table, LaTeX; few comments added, style
improved, references added and update
Quantum Gravity Corrections to the One Loop Scalar Self-Mass during Inflation
We compute the one loop corrections from quantum gravity to the
self-mass-squared of a massless, minimally coupled scalar on a locally de
Sitter background. The calculation was done using dimensional regularization
and renormalized by subtracting fourth order BPHZ counterterms. Our result
should determine whether quantum gravitational loop corrections can
significantly alter the dynamics of a scalar inflaton.Comment: 47 pages, 3 figures, 20 tables, uses LaTeX 2 epsilon, version 2
revised for publication in Physical Review
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