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Generation Of Coherent Structures After Cosmic Inflation, Marcelo Gleiser, Noah Graham, Nikitas Stamatopoulos
Generation Of Coherent Structures After Cosmic Inflation, Marcelo Gleiser, Noah Graham, Nikitas Stamatopoulos
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We investigate the nonlinear dynamics of hybrid inflation models, which are characterized by two real scalar fields interacting quadratically. We start by solving numerically the coupled Klein-Gordon equations in static Minkowski spacetime, searching for possible coherent structures. We find long-lived, localized configurations, which we identify as a new kind of oscillon. We demonstrate that these two-field oscillons allow for “excited” states with much longer lifetimes than those found in previous studies of single-field oscillons. We then solve the coupled field equations in an expanding Friedmann-Robertson-Walker spacetime, finding that as the field responsible for inflating the Universe rolls down to oscillate …