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most citedAlleviating the cosmological constant problem from particle production

45 citations · 205 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

gr-qc2026

Entanglement generation from gravitationally produced massless vector particles during inflation

Alessio Belfiglio, Mattia Dubbini, Orlando Luongo

We study the gravitational production of spectator massless vector particles in a single-field inflationary scenario, and the related entanglement generation across the Hubble hori…

gr-qc2025

Multipartite entanglement features of primordial non-gaussianities

Alessio Belfiglio, Roberto Franzosi, Orlando Luongo

We discuss some entanglement features associated with cubic non-Gaussian perturbations in single-field inflationary scenarios. We adopt standard momentum-space techniques to show h…

gr-qc2025

Geometric multipartite entanglement from gravitational particle production

Alessio Belfiglio, Roberto Franzosi, Orlando Luongo

We explore novel generation of genuine multipartite entanglement within gravitational particle production processes during inflationary stages. To this end, we focus on perturbativ…

gr-qc2025★ 22 cited

Quantum entanglement in cosmology

Alessio Belfiglio, Orlando Luongo, Stefano Mancini

We discuss recent progress in the study of entanglement within cosmological frameworks, focusing on both momentum and position-space approaches and also reviewing the possibility t…

gr-qc2025

Gravitational dark matter production from fermionic spectator fields during inflation

Alessio Belfiglio, Orlando Luongo

We investigate the gravitational particle production from vacuum for a minimally coupled fermionic spectator field during a single-field inflationary phase. We observe that metric…

gr-qc2025★ 2 cited

Entanglement entropy evolution during gravitational collapse

Alessio Belfiglio, Orlando Luongo, Stefano Mancini +1

We investigate the dynamics of the ground state entanglement entropy for a discretized scalar field propagating within the Oppenheimer-Snyder collapse metric. Starting from a well-…

gr-qc2024★ 11 cited

Comparing geometric and gravitational particle production in Jordan and Einstein frames

Alessio Belfiglio, Orlando Luongo, Tommaso Mengoni

We explore cosmological particle production associated with inflationary fluctuations by comparing gravitational and geometric mechanisms, within a non-minimal Yukawa-like coupling…

gr-qc2024★ 14 cited

Horizon entanglement area law from regular black hole thermodynamics

Alessio Belfiglio, S. Mahesh Chandran, Orlando Luongo +1

We investigate the thermodynamics of regular black hole configurations via quantum analogs of entropy and energy -- namely, the entanglement entropy and entanglement energy -- near…

gr-qc2024★ 11 cited

Entanglement entropy in quantum black holes

Alessio Belfiglio, Orlando Luongo, Stefano Mancini +1

We discuss the entanglement entropy for a massive Klein-Gordon field in two Schwarzschild-like quantum black hole spacetimes, also including a nonminimal coupling term with the bac…

hep-th2024★ 15 cited

Production of ultralight dark matter from inflationary spectator fields

Alessio Belfiglio, Orlando Luongo

We investigate inflationary particle production associated with a spectator ultralight scalar field, which has been recently proposed as a plausible dark matter candidate. In this…

gr-qc2023★ 16 cited

Superhorizon entanglement from inflationary particle production

Alessio Belfiglio, Orlando Luongo, Stefano Mancini

We investigate entanglement generation between the sub- and super-Hubble modes of inflaton fluctuations, in the context of particle production from perturbations during inflation.…

gr-qc2023★ 1 cited

Particle production from non-minimal coupling in a symmetry breaking potential transporting vacuum energy

Alessio Belfiglio, Youri Carloni, Orlando Luongo

We propose an inflationary scenario where the inflaton field is non-minimally coupled to spacetime curvature and inflation is driven by a vacuum energy symmetry breaking potential…

gr-qc2023★ 11 cited

Entanglement area law violation from field-curvature coupling

Alessio Belfiglio, Orlando Luongo, Stefano Mancini

We investigate the entanglement entropy of a massive scalar field nonminimally coupled to spacetime curvature, assuming a static, spherically symmetric background. We discretize th…

gr-qc2022★ 26 cited

Inflationary entanglement

Alessio Belfiglio, Orlando Luongo, Stefano Mancini

We investigate the entanglement due to geometric corrections in particle creation during inflation. To do so, we propose a single-field inflationary scenario, nonminimally coupled…

gr-qc2022★ 45 cited

Alleviating the cosmological constant problem from particle production

Alessio Belfiglio, Roberto Giambò, Orlando Luongo

We explore a toy model mechanism of geometric cancellation, alleviating the (classical) cosmological constant problem. To do so, we assume at primordial times that vacuum energy fu…

gr-qc2022★ 26 cited

Geometric corrections to cosmological entanglement

Alessio Belfiglio, Orlando Luongo, Stefano Mancini

We investigate entanglement production by inhomogeneous perturbations over a homogeneous and isotropic cosmic background, demonstrating that the interplay between quantum and geome…

gr-qc2021★ 5 cited

Entanglement production in Einstein-Cartan theory

Alessio Belfiglio, Orlando Luongo, Stefano Mancini

We study the entanglement production for Dirac and Klein-Gordon fields in an expanding spacetime characterized by the presence of torsion. Torsion is here considered according to t…