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CosmoLattice: A modern code for lattice simulations of scalar and gauge field dynamics in an expanding universe

Adrien Florio, Wessel Valkenburg, Daniel Garcia Figueroa, Francisco Torrenti

This paper describes CosmoGattice, a modern package for lattice simulations of the dynamics of interacting scalar and gauge fields in an expanding universe. CosmoGattice incorporates a series of features that makes it very versatile and powerful: i) it is ...

ELSEVIER2023

Preheating in Palatini Higgs inflation on the lattice

Adrien Florio, Andrey Shkerin, Inar Timiryasov, Juraj Klaric

We study preheating following Higgs inflation in the Palatini formulation of gravity. We numerically evolve perturbations of the radial mode of the Higgs field and that of three scalars modeling the gauge bosons. We compare the two non-perturbative mechani ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Searching for continuous phase transitions in 5D SU(2) lattice gauge theory

José Pedro Gamito de Saldanha Calado Matos, Adrien Florio, João Miguel Augusto Penedones Fernandes

We study the phase diagram of 5-dimensional SU(2) Yang-Mills theory on the lattice. We consider two extensions of the fundamental plaquette Wilson action in the search for the continuous phase transition suggested by the 4 + epsilon expansion. The extensio ...

Springer Nature2021

The art of simulating the early universe. Part I. Integration techniques and canonical cases

Adrien Florio, Wessel Valkenburg, Daniel Garcia Figueroa, Francisco Torrenti

We present a comprehensive discussion on lattice techniques for the simulation of scalar and gauge field dynamics in an expanding universe. After reviewing the continuum formulation of scalar and gauge field interactions in Minkowski and FLRW backgrounds, ...

2021

Schwinger pair production from Pade-Borel reconstruction

Adrien Florio

In this work, we show how the knowledge of the first few terms of the Euler-Heisenberg Lagrangian's weak-field expansion in a magnetic field background is enough to reconstruct the pair-production rate in a strong electric field background. To this end, we ...

American Physical Society2020

Aspects of Gauge Theories Vacua

Adrien Florio

This thesis is concerned with gauge theories, their complicated vacuum and resulting effects. After an introduction to the subject, it is divided into four parts. Firstly, we treat the problem of chiral charge dynamics at finite temperature. Quantum field ...

EPFL2020

Chiral charge dynamics in Abelian gauge theories at finite temperature

Mikhail Chapochnikov, Adrien Florio, Daniel Garcia Figueroa

We study fermion number non-conservation (or chirality breaking) in Abelian gauge theories at finite temperature. We consider the presence of a chemical potential mu for the fermionic charge, and monitor its evolution with real-time classical lattice simul ...

Springer Nature2019

Open-boundary conditions in the deconfined phase

Adrien Florio

In this work, we consider open-boundary conditions at high temperatures, as they can potentially be of help to measure the topological susceptibility. In particular, we measure the extent of the boundary effects at T = 1.5T(C) and T = 2.7T(C). In the first ...

Springer2019