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most citedLattice Simulations of Axion-U(1) Inflation

73 citations · 266 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

hep-th2026

Lattice Monte Carlo of on Euclidean de Sitter

Angelo Caravano

We report the first Monte Carlo simulation of quantum field theory on Euclidean de Sitter space, . Rather than discretizing space, we use a spectral lattice based on spherical…

astro-ph.CO2026

Ab Initio Cosmological Simulations: From Inflation to Present-Day Structure Formation

Drew Jamieson, Angelo Caravano, Eiichiro Komatsu

The cosmic web preserves a record of the physics that shaped the universe in its earliest moments, the period of exponential expansion known as cosmic inflation. However, if inflat…

astro-ph.CO2026

Lattice simulations of scalar-induced gravitational waves from inflation

Angelo Caravano, Gabriele Franciolini, Sébastien Renaux-Petel

Scalar-induced gravitational waves (SIGWs) provide a powerful probe of inflationary dynamics on scales far smaller than those accessible to the cosmic microwave background and larg…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 7 cited

Primordial Power Spectrum and Bispectrum from Lattice Simulations of Axion-U(1) Inflation

Drew Jamieson, Angelo Caravano, Eiichiro Komatsu

We present primordial non-Gaussianity predictions from a new high-precision code for simulating axion-U(1) inflation on a discrete lattice. We measure the primordial scalar curvatu…

astro-ph.CO2025

InflationEasy: A C++ Lattice Code for Inflation

Angelo Caravano

InflationEasy is a lattice code specifically developed for cosmological inflation. It simulates the nonlinear dynamics of a scalar field on a three-dimensional lattice in an expand…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 10 cited

Ultra-Slow-Roll Inflation on the Lattice II: Nonperturbative Curvature Perturbation

Angelo Caravano, Gabriele Franciolini, Sébastien Renaux-Petel

Building on the recent lattice simulations of ultra-slow-roll (USR) dynamics presented in arXiv:2410.23942, we investigate the role of the nonlinear relation between the inflaton f…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 33 cited

Ultra-Slow-Roll Inflation on the Lattice I: Backreaction and Nonlinear Effects

Angelo Caravano, Gabriele Franciolini, Sébastien Renaux-Petel

Violating the slow-roll regime during the final stages of inflation can significantly enhance curvature perturbations, a scenario often invoked in models producing primordial black…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

Parity-Odd Power Spectra: Concise Statistics for Cosmological Parity Violation

Drew Jamieson, Angelo Caravano, Jiamin Hou +2

We introduce the Parity-Odd Power (POP) spectra, a novel set of observables for probing parity violation in cosmological -point statistics. POP spectra are derived from composit…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 23 cited

Unveiling the nonlinear dynamics of a rolling axion during inflation

Angelo Caravano, Marco Peloso

A spectator axion-gauge sector, minimally coupled to the inflaton, with the axion experiencing a momentary stage of fast roll during cosmological inflation, can generate unique sig…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 49 cited

Inflationary Butterfly Effect: Non-perturbative Dynamics From Small-Scale Features

Angelo Caravano, Keisuke Inomata, Sébastien Renaux-Petel

For the first time, we investigate the non-perturbative dynamics of single field inflation with a departure from slow-roll. Using simulations, we find that oscillatory features in…

astro-ph.CO2022

Simulating the inflationary Universe: from single-field to the axion-U(1) model

Angelo Caravano

We present a nonlinear study of the inflationary epoch based on numerical lattice simulations. Lattice simulations are a well-known tool in primordial cosmology, and they have been…

astro-ph.CO2022★ 73 cited

Lattice Simulations of Axion-U(1) Inflation

Angelo Caravano, Eiichiro Komatsu, Kaloian D. Lozanov +1

We present the first nonlinear lattice simulation of an axion field coupled to a U(1) gauge field during inflation. We use it to fully characterize the statistics of the primordial…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 30 cited

Lattice simulations of Abelian gauge fields coupled to axions during Inflation

Angelo Caravano, Eiichiro Komatsu, Kaloian D. Lozanov +1

We use a lattice simulation to study a model of axion inflation where the inflaton is coupled to a U(1) gauge field through Chern-Simons interaction. These kinds of models have alr…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 21 cited

Lattice Simulations of Inflation

Angelo Caravano, Eiichiro Komatsu, Kaloian D. Lozanov +1

The scalar field theory of cosmological inflation constitutes nowadays one of the preferred scenarios for the physics of the early universe. In this paper we aim at studying the in…

gr-qc2021★ 19 cited

Combining cosmological and local bounds on bimetric theory

Angelo Caravano, Marvin Lüben, Jochen Weller

Ghost-free bimetric theory describes two nonlinearly interacting spin-2 fields, one massive and one massless, thus extending general relativity. We confront bimetric theory with ob…