Deflationary cosmology with decaying vacuum energy density

1994 ◽  
Vol 49 (10) ◽  
pp. 5597-5600 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. A. S. Lima ◽  
J. M. F. Maia
Keyword(s):  
Energy Density ◽  
Vacuum Energy ◽  
Vacuum Energy Density

scholarly journals LOCAL CONTRIBUTION OF A QUANTUM CONDENSATE TO THE VACUUM ENERGY DENSITY

2003 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 683-690 ◽  
Author(s):  
GIOVANNI MODANESE
Keyword(s):  
Energy Density ◽  
Vacuum Energy ◽  
Casimir Effect ◽  
Landau Equation ◽  
Vacuum Energy Density ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Ginzburg Landau ◽  
Physical Conditions ◽  
Local Contribution ◽  
Gravitational Vacuum

We evaluate the local contribution gμνL of coherent matter with Lagrangian density L to the vacuum energy density. Focusing on the case of superconductors obeying the Ginzburg–Landau equation, we express the relativistic invariant density L in terms of low-energy quantities containing the pairs density. We discuss under which physical conditions the sign of the local contribution of the collective wave function to the vacuum energy density is positive or negative. Effects of this kind can play an important role in bringing the local changes in the amplitude of gravitational vacuum fluctuations — a phenomenon reminiscent of the Casimir effect in QED.

scholarly journals Brownian motion and polarized three-dimensional quantum vacuum

2021 ◽  
Vol 67 (4 Jul-Aug) ◽  
Author(s):  
Davide Fiscaletti
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Brownian Motion ◽  
Energy Density ◽  
Nonlinear Model ◽  
Vacuum Energy ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Vacuum Energy Density ◽  
Quantum Vacuum ◽  
Virtual Particles ◽  
Fundamental Entity

A nonlinear model of Brownian motion is developed in a three-dimensional quantum vacuum defined by a variable quantum vacuum energy density corresponding to processes of creation/annihilation of virtual particles. In this model, the polarization of the quantum vacuum determined by a perturbative fluctuation of the quantum vacuum energy density associated with a fluctuating viscosity, which mimics the action of dark matter, emerges as the fundamental entity which generates the Brownian motion.

scholarly journals Do we come from a quantum anomaly?

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (14) ◽  
pp. 1944002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spyros Basilakos ◽  
Nick E. Mavromatos ◽  
Joan Solà Peracaula
Keyword(s):  
Dark Matter ◽  
Dark Energy ◽  
Energy Density ◽  
Hubble Parameter ◽  
Vacuum Energy ◽  
Vacuum Energy Density ◽  
Quantum Anomaly ◽  
Inflationary Phase ◽  
Axion Field ◽  
The Universe

We present a string-based picture of the cosmological evolution in which (CP-violating) gravitational anomalies acting during the inflationary phase of the universe cause the vacuum energy density to “run” with the effective Hubble parameter squared, [Formula: see text], thanks to the axion field of the bosonic string multiplet. This leads to baryogenesis through leptogenesis with massive right-handed neutrinos. The generation of chiral matter after inflation helps in cancelling the anomalies in the observable radiation- and matter-dominated eras. The present era inherits the same “running vacuum” structure triggered during the inflationary time by the axion field. The current dark energy is thus predicted to be mildly dynamical, and dark matter should be made of axions. Paraphrasing Carl Sagan [ https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/10538.Carl_Sagan .]: we are all anomalously made from starstuff.

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