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Bilayer Graphene Inspires Two-Universe Cosmological Model[URL unfurl="true"]https://jqi.umd.edu/news/bilayer-graphene-inspires-two-universe-cosmological-model[/URL]Related paper:Moiré Gravity and CosmologyThe vacuum catastrophe is a fundamental puzzle, where the observed scales of the cosmological constant are many orders of magnitude smaller than the natural scales expected in the theory. This work proposes a new "bi-world" construction that may offer an insight into the cosmological constant problem. The model includes a (3+1)-dimensional manifold with two different geometries and matter fields residing on them. The diffeomorphism invariance and causality highly constrain the two metrics to be conformally related, ημν=ϕ2gμν. This reduces the theory to a standard single-world description, but introduces a new inherently geometrical "moiré field," ϕ. Interestingly, the moiré field has the character of both a dilaton and Higgs field familiar in the conventional theory. Integrating out the moiré field naturally gives rise to the Starobinsky action and inflationary dynamics. In the framework of the Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker solution, we reduce an effective action for the moiré field to that of a particle moving in a Mexican hat potential. The equations of motion are then solved numerically and the moiré field is shown to approach a Mexican-hat minimum in an oscillatory fashion, which is accompanied by the decay of the Hubble parameter. Under additional reasonable assumptions, the vacuum energy asymptotically approaches zero in the end of inflationary evolution. The physics presented here shares similarities with the moiré phenomena in condensed matter and elsewhere, where two similar structures superimposed upon give rise to a superstructure with low emergent energy scales compared to the native theories.[URL unfurl="true"]https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06574[/URL]
Bilayer Graphene Inspires Two-Universe Cosmological Model
[URL unfurl="true"]https://jqi.umd.edu/news/bilayer-graphene-inspires-two-universe-cosmological-model[/URL]
Related paper:
Moiré Gravity and Cosmology
The vacuum catastrophe is a fundamental puzzle, where the observed scales of the cosmological constant are many orders of magnitude smaller than the natural scales expected in the theory. This work proposes a new "bi-world" construction that may offer an insight into the cosmological constant problem. The model includes a (3+1)-dimensional manifold with two different geometries and matter fields residing on them. The diffeomorphism invariance and causality highly constrain the two metrics to be conformally related, ημν=ϕ2gμν. This reduces the theory to a standard single-world description, but introduces a new inherently geometrical "moiré field," ϕ. Interestingly, the moiré field has the character of both a dilaton and Higgs field familiar in the conventional theory. Integrating out the moiré field naturally gives rise to the Starobinsky action and inflationary dynamics. In the framework of the Friedmann-Lemaitre-Robertson-Walker solution, we reduce an effective action for the moiré field to that of a particle moving in a Mexican hat potential. The equations of motion are then solved numerically and the moiré field is shown to approach a Mexican-hat minimum in an oscillatory fashion, which is accompanied by the decay of the Hubble parameter. Under additional reasonable assumptions, the vacuum energy asymptotically approaches zero in the end of inflationary evolution. The physics presented here shares similarities with the moiré phenomena in condensed matter and elsewhere, where two similar structures superimposed upon give rise to a superstructure with low emergent energy scales compared to the native theories.
[URL unfurl="true"]https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.06574[/URL]
