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Prethermalization in early Prethermalization in early UniverseUniverse
D. PodolskyD. Podolsky, G. Felder, L. Kofman, M. , G. Felder, L. Kofman, M. PelosoPelosoCITA (Toronto), Landau ITP (Moscow), University of Minnesota
• Sharp change of equation of state from non-relativistic to relativistic: reheating• Prethermalization: soon after the end of reheating spectrum is close to thermal at interesting energy scales• “Intermediate” regime of expansion: effective equation of state w=1/4, due to non-trivial time dependence of effective masses
What happens between reheating and radiation dominated stage?
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Setup
End of inflationary stageφ – inflaton, χ – matter field, m~10 M-6
P
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ReheatingIn terms of equation of motion for modes of matter field is
, number density
Driving parameter is
Resonance structure for k=0 in flat spacetime
There are growing solutionsat some k (param. resonance):
At large q, instabilityzones overlap
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Prethermalization: results of numerical simulations1. Effective equation of state w = p/ε
Corresp. regime of expansion is
1. Sharp change of equation of state2. Moment of transition is non-monotonic function of g2
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2. Various components of energy density (why particle description is valid), g =2.5 102 . -7
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3. Total (comoving) number densities
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4. Energy densities per mode k
Various curves correspond to various moments of time, separation is Δt = 4π/m;curve in the box is Rayleigh spectrum k³, corresponding to
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5. Spectra of number densities (in log scale)
• Direct cascade – possibly, this regime can be described in terms of weak turbulence (Tkachev, Micha (2004), KP (work in progress))• Tendency for creation of χ-condensate• Prethermalization – at interesting scales spectrum is close to thermal soon enough after the end of reheating
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6. Means and variances
g²=2.5 10 g²=10
Variances can be estimated as and
They are trivially related with effective masses (Hartree approx.):
and
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7. Intermediate regime of expansion: kinematic explanationContributions of particles into energy density may be estimated as
Variances are:
and
Since number densities are slow functions of time, one has
0-0 component of Einstein equations gives
i.e., w=1/4 in the beginning of evolution
Physical reason is non-trivial change of effective masses with time in expanding Universe
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Conclusions
• Sharp change of equation of state due to preheating• Prethermalization – soon after the end of reheating spectrum is close to thermal at all physically interesting scales
Numerics
Kinematics
• Intermediate regime of expansion after reheating, corresponds to effective equation of state w ≈ ¼. Explanation: non-trivial dependence of effective masses on time in expanding universe
Kinetics
• Much work to be done – turbulent thermalization of quantum scalar fields, relation to weak turbulence theory (in preparation, 2005)
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Notes1. Instability bands for Mathieu equation: ,
2. Moment of transition as function of coupling g: