Nonthermal phase transitions after inflation
Oct, 1995
4 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.Lett. 76 (1996) 1011-1014
e-Print:
- hep-th/9510119 [hep-th]
Report number:
- SU-ITP-95-21,
- UH-IFA-95-51
View in:
Citations per year
Abstract:
At the first stage of reheating after inflation, parametric resonance may rapidly transfer most of the energy of an inflaton field to the energy of other bosons. We show that quantum fluctuations of scalar and vector fields produced at this stage are much greater than they would be in a state of thermal equilibrium. This leads to cosmological phase transitions of a new type, which may result in a copious production of topological defects and in a secondary stage of inflation after reheating.- inflation
- critical phenomena
- thermodynamics: fluctuation
- field theory: scalar
- field theory: vector
- defect: topological
References(0)
Figures(0)
Loading ...