3 papers
hep-ph2025
No Dark Matter Axion During Minimal Higgs Inflation
Claire Rigouzzo, Sebastian Zell
We study minimal versions of Higgs inflation in the presence of a massless QCD axion. While the inflationary energy scale of the metric variant is too high to accommodate isocurvat…
hep-th2025
On the Gravitational Origin of the QCD Axion
Georgios K. Karananas, Mikhail Shaposhnikov, Sebastian Zell
Gravity can give rise to (pseudo)scalar fields, for instance due to torsion. In particular, axions of gravitational origin have been proposed as a minimal and compelling solution t…
quant-ph2025
The Timescales of Quantum Breaking
Marco Michel, Sebastian Zell
Due to the inevitable existence of quantum effects, a classical description generically breaks down after a finite quantum break-time . We aim to find criteria for determining…