Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-7-2000
Publication Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Abstract
Preheating after inflation may lead to non-thermal phase transitions with symmetry restoration. These phase transitions may occur even if the total energy density of fluctuations produced during reheating is relatively small as compared with the vacuum energy in the state with restored symmetry. As a result, in some inflationary models one encounters a secondary, non-thermal stage of inflation due to symmetry restoration after preheating. We review the theory of non-thermal phase transitions and make a prediction about the expansion factor during the secondary inflationary stage. We then present the results of lattice simulations which verify these predictions, and discuss possible implications of our results for the theory of formation of topological defects during non-thermal phase transitions.
Keywords
Lattice Quantum Field Theory, Cosmology of Theories beyond the SM, Cosmological Phase Transitions, Physics of the Early Universe
Volume
2000
DOI
10.1088/1126-6708/2000/08/010/pdf
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Rights
© the authors
Recommended Citation
Felder, Gary; Kofman, Lev; Linde, Andrei; and Tkachev, Igor, "Inflation After Preheating" (2000). Physics: Faculty Publications, Smith College, Northampton, MA.
https://scholarworks.smith.edu/phy_facpubs/54
Comments
Archived as published.