3 papers
hep-ph2026
Misalignment dynamics of Scalar Condensates with Yukawa coupling: Particle and Entropy Production
Nathan Herring, Daniel Boyanovsky
Misalignment dynamics, the non-equilibrium evolution of a scalar (or pseudoscalar) condensate in a potential landscape, broadly describes a solution to the strong CP problem, a mec…
hep-th2025
Condensate decay in a radiation dominated cosmology
Shuyang Cao, Daniel Boyanovsky
We study the decay of a homogeneous condensate of a massive scalar field of mass \emph{m} into massless fields in thermal equilibrium in a radiation dominated cosmology. The model…
hep-ph2025
Is the finite temperature effective potential, effective for dynamics?
Nathan Herring, Shuyang Cao, Daniel Boyanovsky
We study the applicability of the finite temperature effective potential in the equation of motion of a homogeneous "misaligned" scalar condensate , and find important caveats…