Strongly coupled quintessence
Abstract
We present a family of consistent quantum field theories of monodromy quintessence in strong coupling, which can serve as benchmarks in modeling dark energy different from the cosmological constant. These theories have discrete gauge symmetries that can protect them from quantum field theory and quantum gravity corrections, both perturbative and nonperturbative. The strong coupling effects, at scales ≳mm–1, flatten the potential and activate operators with higher powers of derivatives. The predicted equation of state is close to, but not exactly equal to, –1. Thus testing the model may be within reach of the (near) future programs to explore the nature of dark energy.
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- Brandeis Univ., Waltham, MA (United States); Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1573121
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1801977
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0009999; SC0009987
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- Published Article
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review D
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 100 Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY; Astronomy & Astrophysics; Physics
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D’Amico, Guido, Kaloper, Nemanja, and Lawrence, Albion. Strongly coupled quintessence. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.103504.
D’Amico, Guido, Kaloper, Nemanja, & Lawrence, Albion. Strongly coupled quintessence. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.103504
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"Strongly coupled quintessence". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.100.103504.
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title = {Strongly coupled quintessence},
author = {D’Amico, Guido and Kaloper, Nemanja and Lawrence, Albion},
abstractNote = {We present a family of consistent quantum field theories of monodromy quintessence in strong coupling, which can serve as benchmarks in modeling dark energy different from the cosmological constant. These theories have discrete gauge symmetries that can protect them from quantum field theory and quantum gravity corrections, both perturbative and nonperturbative. The strong coupling effects, at scales ≳mm–1, flatten the potential and activate operators with higher powers of derivatives. The predicted equation of state is close to, but not exactly equal to, –1. Thus testing the model may be within reach of the (near) future programs to explore the nature of dark energy.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevD.100.103504},
journal = {Physical Review D},
number = 10,
volume = 100,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Nov 05 00:00:00 EST 2019},
month = {Tue Nov 05 00:00:00 EST 2019}
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