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Dark energy from quantum wave function collapse of dark matter

dc.contributor.authorMajumdar, Archan S
dc.contributor.authorHome, Dipankar
dc.contributor.authorSinha, Siddhartha
dc.date.accessioned2011-08-23T08:11:30Z
dc.date.available2011-08-23T08:11:30Z
dc.date.issued2009-08
dc.descriptionRestricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations)en
dc.description.abstractDynamical wave function collapse models entail the continuous liberation of a specified rate of energy arising from the interaction of a fluctuating scalar field with the matter wave function. We consider the wave function collapse process for the constituents of dark matter in our universe. Beginning from a particular early era of the universe chosen from physical considerations, the rate of the associated energy liberation is integrated to yield the requisite magnitude of dark energy around the era of galaxy formation. Further, the equation of state for the liberated energy approaches w →−1 asymptotically, providing a mechanism to generate the present acceleration of the universe.en
dc.identifier.citationPhysics Letters B, 2009, Vol.679, p167en
dc.identifier.issn0370-2693
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2289/4109
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherElesvier B.V.en
dc.relation.urihttp://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0506108en
dc.relation.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2009.07.042en
dc.relation.urihttp://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009PhLB..679..167Men
dc.rights2009 Elesvier B.V.en
dc.subjectDark energyen
dc.subjectWave function collapseen
dc.titleDark energy from quantum wave function collapse of dark matteren
dc.typeArticleen

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