Rolling classical scalar field in a linear potential coupled to a quantum field

doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.096018

Title: Rolling classical scalar field in a linear potential coupled to a quantum field

Abstract

We study the dynamics of a classical scalar field that rolls down a linear potential as it interacts bi-quadratically with a quantum field. We explicitly solve the dynamical problem by using the classical-quantum correspondence (CQC). Rolling solutions on the effective potential are shown to compare very poorly with the full solution. Spatially homogeneous initial conditions maintain their homogeneity and small inhomogeneities in the initial conditions do not grow.

Authors:

Mukhopadhyay, Mainak;

Publication Date:: 2019-11-25

Research Org.:: Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)

OSTI Identifier:: 1575793

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1575219; OSTI ID: 1594972

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0019470

Resource Type:: Published Article

Journal Name:: Physical Review D

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Name: Physical Review D Journal Volume: 100 Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 2470-0010

Publisher:: American Physical Society

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 73 NUCLEAR PHYSICS AND RADIATION PHYSICS; 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS

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                    Mukhopadhyay, Mainak, and Vachaspati, Tanmay. Rolling classical scalar field in a linear potential coupled to a quantum field.  United States: N. p., 2019. 
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                    Mukhopadhyay, Mainak, & Vachaspati, Tanmay. Rolling classical scalar field in a linear potential coupled to a quantum field.  United States.  doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.100.096018.

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  title        = {Rolling classical scalar field in a linear potential coupled to a quantum field},

  author       = {Mukhopadhyay, Mainak and Vachaspati, Tanmay},

  abstractNote = {We study the dynamics of a classical scalar field that rolls down a linear potential as it interacts bi-quadratically with a quantum field. We explicitly solve the dynamical problem by using the classical-quantum correspondence (CQC). Rolling solutions on the effective potential are shown to compare very poorly with the full solution. Spatially homogeneous initial conditions maintain their homogeneity and small inhomogeneities in the initial conditions do not grow.},

  doi          = {10.1103/PhysRevD.100.096018},

  journal      = {Physical Review D},

  number       = 9,

  volume       = 100,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {2019},

  month        = {11}

}

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Quantum field dynamics of the slow rollover in the linear delta expansion
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Quantum rolling down out of equilibrium
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On rolling, tunneling and decaying in some large N vector models
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Quantum radiation of oscillons
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Erratum: Nonequilibrium inflaton dynamics and reheating: Back reaction of parametric particle creation and curved spacetime effects [Phys. Rev. D 56 , 678 (1997)]
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