The inflaton field is a hypothetical scalar field which is conjectured to have driven cosmic inflation in the very early universe. The field, originally...

where quantum fluctuation pushed the inflaton value up more than the slow inflation decay rate brought the inflaton value down. Originally there was one...

hypothetical field thought to be responsible for inflation is called the inflaton. In 2002 three of the original architects of the theory were recognized...

other hypothetical scalar fields suggested by other theories, from the inflaton to quintessence, could perhaps exist as well. There has been considerable...

inflationary epoch. Most inflationary models propose a scalar field called the inflaton field, with properties necessary for having (at least) two vacuum states...

constant, thought to correspond to dark energy in our universe or the inflaton field in the early universe. According to the models of inflation and current...

instead it generates curvature perturbations at late times after the inflaton field has decayed and the decay products have redshifted away, when the...

approximately 10−32 seconds after the Big Bang when the potential energy of the inflaton field that had driven the inflation of the universe during the inflationary...

be a result of interaction with cosmological scalar fields such as the inflaton. The solution is stable and does not possess any unphysical properties;...

"preheating" mechanisms after inflation involving energy transfer from inflaton particles to regular matter, cosmological phase transitions in the early...