Published July 15, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Casimir force for cosmological domain walls

  • 1. Laboratory of Physics, Saitama Institute of Technology, Fukaya, Saitama 369-0293, Japan, and Department of Physics, Nagoya University, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan, and Physics Department, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YB (United Kingdom)

Description

We calculate the vacuum fluctuations that may affect the evolution of cosmological domain walls. Considering domain walls, which are classically stable and have interaction with a scalar field, we show that explicit symmetry violation in the interaction may cause quantum bias that can solve the cosmological domain-wall problem.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
84
Journal Issue
2
Journal Page Range
p. 023501-023501.6
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
43079470
Subject category
S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Descriptors DEI
CASIMIR EFFECT; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; COSMOLOGICAL MODELS; EVOLUTION; FLUCTUATIONS; INTERACTIONS; SCALAR FIELDS; SYMMETRY BREAKING; WALLS
Descriptors DEC
MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SIMULATION; VARIATIONS

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