Cosmological Particle Creation Beyond de Sitter
arXiv:1905.04111 · doi:10.1142/S0218271819300155
Abstract
Over the years, de Sitter spacetime has been a central focus, in studies involving quantum fields, for its importance in the early and late expansion stages of the universe. While de Sitter spacetime closely mimics characteristics of the inflationary and dark energy dominated universe it does not help to understand the radiation and matter dominated expansions. In this review, we revisit some recent works, involving the author, which study gravitational particle creation beyond the de Sitter stage. Specifically, we present novel aspects of particle creation in the radiation dominated universe, and then provide an analysis of time evolution of the primordial (Bunch-Davies) vacuum state, its particle excitation and quantum versus classical behavior of field modes, in a multi stage universe, comprising of, (i) the inflationary de Sitter, (ii) the radiation dominated and, (iii) the late dark energy dominated stages.
arXiv commentInvited Review Article to IJMPD (published); 33 pages, 7 figures; Based on author's previous articles arXiv:1308.4976, arXiv:1802.03833 and arXiv:1806.00972
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