Interacting Dark Side of Universe Through Generalized Uncertainty Principle
Mahdi Rashki, Majid Fathi, Behrang Mostaghel, Sahram Jalalzadeh

TL;DR
This paper explores how the generalized uncertainty principle influences cosmological models, leading to a dynamical dark energy explanation for late-time universe acceleration, and connects it to phantom and tachyon fields.
Contribution
It introduces a modified cosmological framework incorporating the generalized uncertainty principle, deriving new equations and linking dark energy to quantum gravity effects.
Findings
Modified Friedmann and Raychaudhuri equations derived
Effective dark energy and dark matter parameters obtained
Model shown to be equivalent to Phantom and Tachyon fields
Abstract
We investigate the impact of the generalized uncertainty principle proposed by some approaches to quantum gravity such as string theory and doubly special relativity on the cosmology. Using generalized Poisson brackets, we obtain the modified Friedmann and Raychaudhuri equations and suggest a dynamical dark energy to explain the late time acceleration of the Universe. After considering the interaction between dark matter and dark energy, originated from the minimal length, we obtain the effective cosmological parameters and equation of state parameter for dark matter and dark energy. Finally, we show that the resulting model is equivalent to the Phantom and Tachyon fields.
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Interacting Dark Side of Universe Through Generalized Uncertainty Principle
M. [email protected], [email protected]
Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zabol, Zabol, Iran.
M. Fathi
Department of Physics, Shahid Beheshti University, G. C., Evin, Tehran, 19839, Iran.
B. Mostaghel
Department of Physics, Shahid Beheshti University, G. C., Evin, Tehran, 19839, Iran.
Federal University of Latin-American Integration, Technological Park of Itaipu PO box 2123, Foz do Iguaçu-PR, 85867-670, Brazil,
Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE 52171-900, Brazil.
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Abstract
We investigate the impact of the generalized uncertainty principle proposed by some approaches to quantum gravity such as string theory and doubly special relativity on the cosmology. Using generalized Poisson brackets, we obtain the modified Friedmann and Raychaudhuri equations and suggest a dynamical dark energy to explain the late time acceleration of the Universe. After considering the interaction between dark matter and dark energy, originated from the minimal length, we obtain the effective cosmological parameters and equation of state parameter for dark matter and dark energy. Finally, we show that the resulting model is equivalent to the Phantom and Tachyon fields.
keywords:
Generalized Uncertainty Principle; Dark Matter; Dark Energy
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PACS numbers: 04.50.Kd, 95.30.Sf, 95.35.+d, 98.80.-k
1 Introduction
The existence of minimal length [1] has been predicted by various theoretical models such as string theory [2] and Doubly Special Relativity (DSR) [3]. The presence of this minimal length may arise from imposing the quantum gravity effects in quantum mechanics through modification of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, which is well-known as the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) [4, 5]. From the perturbative string theory, this length is due to the fact that the strings cannot influence through distances smaller than their size. An interesting property of the existence of the minimal length is the modification of the standard commutation relation between canonical position and momentum in quantum mechanics and also Poisson brackets algebra in classical mechanics.
Various authors have been used the deformed Poisson brackets (DPB) in classical cosmological models [6]. Also, the quantum commutator of GUP is applied for a variety of quantum cosmological models [7]. We should note that GUP deformation of Poisson brackets, for a point particles, implies a clear violation of the equivalence principle (EP) [8]. Consistency between DPB and EP can be partially recovered only for composite systems [9] and at the price of defining different parameters for different species of particles. That is expected that the EP to be violated to some degree by any quantum theory of gravity and by many alternative classical theories as well. The violation of this principle in scalar-tensor theories of classical gravity is linked to the existence of scalar gravitational fields in addition to the usual tensor field. On the other hand, one can expect the violation of EP in classical cosmological models at the presence of the deformed PBs. In fact, the origin of this violation is in the usage of the minimal length of quantum gravity in the context of the classical gravitational theory.
Astrophysical observations show that the Universe is in an accelerating expansion phase [10] which is an evidence to the existence of dark energy. There exist several proposals which explain the origin of dark energy such as cosmological constant, the expectation value of the vacuum ground state, which leads to the hierarchy problem [11]. Modified theories of gravity such as [12], DGP braneworld [13], the extrinsic cosmology [14] where dark energy could actually be the manifestation of the local extrinsic shape of the spacetime, scalar-tensor theories [15, 16], modified matter models such as quintessence [17, 18], K-essence, coupled dark energy [19] and dynamical dark energy models [20] are some examples. The simplest candidates to explain the dynamical dark energy are the minimal coupling scalar fields like as the quintessence and Phantom models [21].
In this article, using the classical GUP, we modify the Friedmann and Raychaudhuri equations to propose a new way to explain the interaction of the dark side of Universe. By using the reconstruction approach to scalar fields [20], we obtain a Phantom potential and Tachyon field in the model and show that this potential originated from the GUP effects. In Section II, we present the model that assists in our investigation. In section III we consider an interaction between dark energy and dark matter trough GUP, and finally in the last two sections we reconstruct Phantom and Tachyon fields which are consistent to the model.
2 Classical cosmology at the presence of GUP
Let us consider the isotropic and homogeneous Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker (FLRW) Universe with line element
[TABLE]
where denotes the lapse function, is the scale factor of the Universe and represents the usual spatial curvature. The action functional corresponding to the line element (1) displays in the gravitational and matter sectors (with the latter as perfect fluid) [22]
[TABLE]
where is the total matter density of the Universe, is the spatial volume of the metric which remains finite for the observable Universe with the radius about and overdot denotes differentiation respect to cosmic time . According to the energy conservation the matter density content of the Universe takes the form where denotes the equation of state (EoS), , for -th component of fluid and is the present density. The action functional of the model will be
[TABLE]
One can rewrite the present density of -th component of density, , in terms of density parameter, , as . If we use the dimensionless time defined by and ignoring the overall constant factor, Lagrangian of the model in terms of density parameters will be
[TABLE]
where , denotes the rescaled dimensionless scale factor
[TABLE]
and after this overdot denotes differentiation respect to . The conjugate momentum to the scale factor and the primary constraint are given by
[TABLE]
Consequently, the Hamiltonian corresponding to the Lagrangian (4) will be
[TABLE]
In Eq. (7), is a Lagrange multiplier, hence it compel the Hamiltonian constraint
[TABLE]
2.1 The Generalized Uncertainty Principle
The generalized uncertainty principle between canonical conjugates which leads to a minimum length in one dimension is given by [23]
[TABLE]
where and are two parameters, independent of and , but may, in general, depend on the expectation value of the position and the momentum operators. The above generalization of uncertainty principle corresponds to the following commutation relation
[TABLE]
where by comparing Eqs. (9) and (10), we obtain . A more general case of such commutation relations are studied in Ref. [\refciteHinvichsen1996]. The various applications of the low energy effects of the modified Heisenberg uncertainty principle relations have been extensively studied in Refs. [\refciteBrau,Akhoury2003,Hofmann2003,Nozari2006]. The above equations show that the smallest uncertainty in position has the value
[TABLE]
wherein generally, the parameter of can’t be fixed by the theory.
One major feature of Eq. (11) is that the physics below becomes inaccessible and therefore it defines a natural cut-off which prevents from the usual UV divergences. On the other hand, the second consequence of GUP is the appearance of an intriguing UV/IR mixing, first noticed in the ADS/CFT correspondence [29]. As we know, the UV/IR mixing means that one can probe short distances physics (high energy physics) by long distances physics (low energy physics), and therefore, it justifies the use of classical mechanics in the presence of a minimal length. We point that the UV/IR mixing is also a feature of noncommutative quantum field theory [30]. On the other hand, some scenarios have been proposed where non zero minimal length is related to large extra dimensions [31], to the running coupling constant [32] and to the physics of black holes production [33].
Let us now investigate the effects of deformed Poisson algebra in the presence of a minimal length. Since there is a UV/IR mixing embodied in the deformed commutation relation [6], it is also important to study the effects of the minimal length in a classical context. Note that to obtain the classical and commutative limit, it is necessary to consider simultaneously and . Specifically, if there is no classical limit. Therefore, to embedding the effect of UV-IR mixing of deformation in the classical cosmology at the presence of minimal length, it is enough to consider the limit of . Then, the modified Poisson brackets corresponding to the GUP will be [34]
[TABLE]
Such deformed Poisson algebra is used in Ref. [\refciteBenczik] to investigate the effects of the deformation on the classical orbits of particles in a central force field and on the Kepler third law. Also, the cosmological constant problem and removability of initial curvature singularity are investigated in Ref. [\refciteBina]. The effect of modified Poisson algebra defined in Eq. (12) is also investigated in a dilatonic cosmological model at Ref. [\refciteVakili1] and in Bianchi I and II cosmological models in Ref. [\refciteFarag]. It is examined in de Sitter and Anti-de Sitter classical cosmological models in Ref. [\refciteVakili2]. The effect of above algebra on inflation parameters is investigated in Ref. [\refciteNozari]. In addition, the authors of Ref. [\refciteZeynali] are studied the effects of the deformed Poisson algebra Eq. (12) in multidimensional cosmology. And as the last example, we should mention, the signature changing classical cosmology at the presence of minimal length is described in Ref. [\refciteGhaneh]. The result of the above investigations is that the modifications of physics at small scales, via introducing the minimal length in deformed Poisson algebra, have a rather profound effect on classical physics at large scales, something similar to the UV/IR mixing.
One can easily show that the deformed Poisson bracket algebra given in Eq. (12) is satisfied by the classical dynamical position and conjugate momentum given by [42]
[TABLE]
in which and obey the usual Poisson bracket . Note that in the natural units that we used in this article all quantities are dimensionless: .
By substituting relations (14) into Eq.(7) the deformed Hamiltonian will be
[TABLE]
Consequently, according to Eq.(15) the equations of motion in the gauge of will be
[TABLE]
The first equation in (16) gives us the relation of momentum with . By inserting the obtained momentum in Hamiltonian constraint (15) the deformed Friedmann equation will be
[TABLE]
where denotes the Hubble parameter in the comoving coordinates. The second equation of (16) gives the modified Raychaudhuri equation
[TABLE]
Also, the age of Universe will be
[TABLE]
Let us consider a spatially flat Universe dominated by vacuum energy with EoS . According to Eq.(18) the modified Friedmann equation becomes
[TABLE]
where we defined the modified dark energy parameter as
[TABLE]
and denotes the density parameter of cosmological constant at the present epoch. From Eq.(23) we define
[TABLE]
which states the dependence of GUP parameter to the density parameters of dark energy and the cosmological constant. As we see in our model the GUP parameter could take the positive and negative value according to the difference between and . With substituting value of from Eq. (5) in Eq.(24) we obtain the order of magnitude of as
[TABLE]
where denotes the Hubble distance at the present epoch and is in order of . The order of the GUP parameter is reasonable in our model because we apply the GUP approach to the evolution of the Universe in the present epoch where the quantum effects are small. Note that this limit is 49 orders of magnitude below the Planck scale.
Benczik and et.al in Ref. [\refciteBenczik] obtain the bound from investigation the precession perihelion of Mercury by GUP-deformed Newtonian mechanics. While Scardigli and et.al in Ref. [\refciteScardigli2] compute upper bound for the GUP parameter in light deflection by deformation Schwarzschild metric as , and for perihelion precession by that deformed metric obtained the lower bound for GUP parameter as . As well as, in Ref. [\refciteFarag Ali] the author investigated derivation of the modified Hawking temperature from the GUP, and find an upper bound on GUP parameter for the deflection of light , which there is in contrast to Ref. [\refciteScardigli2] namely , and upper bound for of the perihelion precession of Mercury is . Recently Scardigli et.al in Ref. [\refciteScardigli3] compute the value of GUP parameter by comparing two different low energy corrections. They, first involved through the GUP procedure and then insert the corrections of Newtonian potential which is leads to a quantum correction for Schwarzschild metric that it computed by Donoghue[50]. From this approach, they obtain that the order of GUP parameter is .
The dynamic of dark energy in our model originates from the parameter .
We can write the dark energy density parameter in terms of red-shift as
[TABLE]
We plot the evolution of in the Fig. 1. To make more sense, we compare the behavior of GUP model with standard CDM model. According to this figure, there is a meaningful difference between standard CDM model and GUP dark energy. The modified EoS for dark energy becomes
[TABLE]
This relation shows that in the early Universe, i.e., , we have and the effect of the second term is important in the very late times. In Fig. 1, the equation of state of the proposed model is plotted for two values of the parameter.
According to Eq. (27), at the present epoch, the modified EoS parameter of the dark energy is
[TABLE]
For the positive value of the parameter , we get and consequently, . It implies that in our approach, Universe enters the Phantom phase at the late time.
3 Interacting Dark Energy and Dark Matter
Let us now consider the interaction between dark energy and the dark matter content of the Universe (where we neglect the contribution of baryonic matter and radiation) [43]. As we know the continuity equation for dark energy and dark matter in standard cosmology are
[TABLE]
Substituting the effective dark energy parameter from Eq. (23) into Eq. (29) we obtain the modified continuity equations which can be interpreted as the interaction between dark energy and dark matter. The simplest form of the interaction equations are
[TABLE]
where and denote the effective EoS parameters for dark energy and dark matter respectively and represents the interacting term. Generally speaking, the function represents the energy transition between dark energy and dark matter. Using Eq. (31), we obtain the following two equations for EoS and energy density parameter of dark matter content
[TABLE]
Substituting from Eq.(26) into the second Equation of (34) gives
[TABLE]
The evolution of interacting dark matter respect to the red-shift, shown in the Fig. (2). The effective EoS parameter for dark matter takes the form
[TABLE]
The evolution of respect to red-shift is shown in Fig.(2). For the positive value of the parameter , dark matter behaves like as a stiff fluid with . When the GUP parameter, (and consequently ), tends to zero, the EoS parameter and density parameter of dark matter, , take the values zero and respectively which shows that the deviation of EoS for ordinary dark matter is a consequence of the GUP and the special form of interaction in the Eq. (34) for the proposed dark energy model. To make more sense and in order to compare the role of the parameter on the dynamics of Universe respect to the standard model, in the Fig. 3 we plot the ratio of dark energy density parameter to the dark matter density parameter, . For the positive value of the parameter , the contribution of the dark matter in the Universe is lower than the standard CDM model.
Deceleration parameter defined by
[TABLE]
In Fig. 4 we plot the deceleration parameter of the proposed model respect to the red-shift. According to this figure, Universe enters to the late time acceleration expansion with a time delay, respect to the concordance CDM model.
As we see in Fig. 4, for high red-shifts, the deceleration parameter tends to and the dynamic of Universe determined by dark matter component in our model.
4 Reconstruction of Scalar Field
4.1 Reconstruction of Phantom Fields
Now, we try to reconstruct a scalar field which coincides with results of the previous section. We use the reconstruction method which proposed in Refs. \refciteTsujikawa2005ju,Guo2005ata. Since for different values of the parameter , there is no phantom crossing, we can consider scalar fields with minimal coupling [46]. In minimal coupling with Einstein gravity, energy density and pressure for scalar fields are
[TABLE]
where for quintessence and phantom field respectively and hereafter we will set . Using the EoS parameter, , the kinetic term becomes
[TABLE]
In the proposed dark energy model, energy density always is positive and the EoS is smaller than , respect to the value of the parameter . and, is a real filed. If, we want to apply such equation for our model, since , it forces that , which means that the field must be imaginary. To remove this difficulty, we use the replacement , therefore, the Tachyonic Lagrangian changes to
[TABLE]
On the other hand the potential term will be
[TABLE]
To construct the scalar field, we assume that . According to the Eqs. (26) and (35) we obtain the kinetic term as
[TABLE]
which over-prime denotes differentiation respect to red-shift. Substituting , in Eq. (44) changes to the form
[TABLE]
Therefore, we have
[TABLE]
The sign of the above equation is arbitrary, from now on we choose the positive sign. By numerical analysis of Eq. (46), we show that the scalar field dynamics become important at the late times, as shown in Fig. 5. On the other hand, using Eq. (43) we define a dimensionless scalar potential according to
[TABLE]
which evolves with respect to the scalar field as shown in Fig.(6).
From the above discussion, we conclude that the kinetic and potential terms at early times were constant which represent a cosmological constant, with the passage of time kinetic and potential terms start to evaluate with respect to time. So the Universe experience a smooth transition from dark matter dominated epoch to the late time dark energy dominated epoch.
4.2 Reconstruction of Tachyon Field
Now, we use a similar approach in the previous section to construct another kind of scalar filed, namely Tachyon fields. Tachyon fields appear in string theory, using effective field theory [47]. The interaction between Tachyon field and dark matter were studied in Ref. \refciteSheykhi2011fe. If the field in this theory was an ordinary field, it is shown that such filed can be considered as a candidate for dark energy. It is shown that in the standard Tachyonic field, the equation of state changes between and [math]. Tachyon field Lagrangian density is
[TABLE]
It is important to notice that mass dimension of the scalar field is . If we consider that Tachyon field depends only on cosmic time, , then the Lagrangian density becomes
[TABLE]
Hence, the energy density and the pressure associated to the Tachyon field will be
[TABLE]
Using above equations, the EoS parameter is
[TABLE]
If, we want to apply such equation for our model, since , it forces that , which means that the field must be imaginary. To remove this difficulty, we use the replacement , therefore, the Tachyonic Lagrangian changes to
[TABLE]
By considering Lagrangian density (53) we can rewrite energy density and pressure as
[TABLE]
So the EoS parameter for Tachyonic field becomes
[TABLE]
which satisfy the condition . Combining above equations, we obtain
[TABLE]
Similar to the Phantom case, we choose the plus sign.
Now to establish a correspondence between our model and Tachyon field, we use the previous formula for EoS and energy density. If we define , the kinetic term rewrite as
[TABLE]
Again by numerical integration, we obtain the behavior of Tachyon field and potential as shown in Figs. (7) and (7).
5 Conclusion
In this paper, we have applied the existence of minimal observable length to modify the classical field equations in standard cosmology. Considering a spatially flat Universe filled with the dark energy we obtain the effective equation of state for the dark side of the Universe containing dark energy and dark matter. We considered the interaction between dark energy and dark matter and showed that this interaction is a consequence of the effective EoS parameters which originated from the GUP parameter. Finally, we constructed two types of scalar fields for the said dynamical dark energy model, namely Phantom and Tachyon fields and compared their behavior during the evolution of the Universe. Strictly speaking, we showed that the what is responsible for a dynamical dark energy model and interaction between dark components of the Universe could be the existence of minimal length in Universe.
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