Dark energy and particle mixing

Sep, 2008
11 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.A 373 (2009) 601-610
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Abstract: (arXiv)
We show that the vacuum condensate due to particle mixing is responsible of a dynamically evolving dark energy. In particular, we show that values of the adiabatic index close to -1 for vacuum condensates of neutrinos and quarks imply, at the present epoch, contributions to the vacuum energy compatible with the estimated upper bound on the dark energy.
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  • vacuum state: energy
  • neutrino: condensation
  • dark energy
  • mixing
  • quark: condensation
  • fermion: Dirac