Massless minimal quantum scalar field with an asymmetric self interaction in de Sitter spacetime

Abstract

Massless minimally coupled quantum scalar field with an asymmetric self interaction, $V(\varphi )=\lambda {\varphi }^4/4!+\beta {\varphi }^3/3!$ (with $\lambda >0$) is considered in the $(3+1)$-dimensional inflationary de Sitter spacetime. This potential is bounded from below irrespective of the sign of $\beta$. Earlier computations mostly considered the quartic part. Our chief motivation behind this study is to assess the vacuum expectation values of $V(\varphi )$ and $\varphi$, both of which can be negative, and hence may lead to some screening of the inflationary cosmological constant value. First using the in-in formalism, the renormalised quantum correction to the cubic potential appearing in the energy-momentum tensor is computed at two loop, which is the leading order in this case. The quantum correction to the kinetic term at two loop are subleading compared to the above result at late cosmological times. Next, using some of these results we compute the renormalised vacuum expectation value of $\varphi$, by computing the tadpoles at $\mathcal{O}(\beta )$ and $\mathcal{O}(\lambda \beta )$. Due to the appearance of the de Sitter isometry breaking logarithms, the tadpoles cannot be completely renormalised away in this case, unlike the flat spacetime. All these results, as expected, show secularly growing logarithms at late cosmological times. We next use a recently proposed renormalisation group inspired formalism to resum perturbative secular effects, to compute a non-perturbative $⟨\varphi ⟩$ at late cosmological times. $⟨\varphi ⟩$ turns out to be approximately one order of magnitude less compared to the position of the classical minima $\varphi =-3\beta /\lambda$ of $V(\varphi )$. Estimation on the possible screening of the inflationary cosmological constant due to this $⟨\varphi ⟩$ is also presented.

v2; 35pp, 5 figs; added references, discussions and clarifications; a small error in the computation of $⟨\varphi ⟩$ corrected, main results unchanged; accepted in JCAP

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