The CWKB method of particle production in a periodic potential

DOI10.1023/A:1021349925566MaRDI QIDQ1863130zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Yanyan Li

Publication date 11 March 2003

Published in General Relativity and Gravitation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0205076

zbMATH Keywords

cosmologyinflationary cosmologyparticle productionquantum cosmology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum field theory on curved space or space-time backgrounds (81T20) Quantization of the gravitational field (83C45) Relativistic cosmology (83F05)

Abstract: In this work we study the particle production in time dependent periodic potential using the method of complex time WKB (CWKB) approximation. In the inflationary cosmology at the end of inflationary stage, the potential becomes time dependent as well as periodic. Reheating occurs due to particle production by the oscillating inflaton field. Using CWKB we obtain almost identical results on catastrophic particle production as obtained by others.

Review text

To understand time in all its forms and functions is really one of the most interesting as well as vital problems in nature. The method of complex time WKB (CWKB) approximation is very powerful, when used with appropriate caution. The authors have done here a good job of studying the problems of particle production in time-dependent periodic potentials within this approach. The question of particle production in the expanding universe has, of course, been of great significancc since long. The main historical milestones have been mentioned with particular emphasis on the principles around the CWKB approximation. Particle production in the large amplitude region is also discussed, which is followed by developing an analytic theory of parametric resonance particle generation in the fourth section. The standard form of equation with time-dependent potential \(V(t)\) with periodicity defined by \(V(t+T)=V(t)\) is used. In this paper, after listing their results briefly, the authors claim that the complex WBK approximation nicely reproduces all the essential aspects of particle production due to the inflation oscillation.

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