The difference between the vacuum energy of quantum fields in Minkowski space and in a Friedmann-Robertson-Walker universe might be related to the observed dark energy. The vacuum energy of the Veneziano ghost field introduced to solve the problem in QCD is of the form . Based on this, we study the dynamical evolution of a phenomenological dark energy model whose energy density is of the form . In this model, the universe approaches a de Sitter phase at late times. We fit the model with current observational data, including SnIa, BAO, CMB, BBN, the Hubble parameter, and the growth rate of matter perturbation. It shows that the universe begins to accelerate at redshift , and this model is consistent with current data. In particular, this model fits the data of the growth factor well as the model.
15 October 2010 in General Relativity and Gravitation
In the probe limit, we numerically construct a holographic -wave superfluid model in the four-dimensional (4D) and five-dimensional (5D) anti-de Sitter black holes coupled to a Maxwell-complex vector field. We find that, for the condensate with the fixed superfluid velocity, the results are similar to the -wave cases in both 4D and 5D spacetimes. In particular, the Cave of Winds and the phase transition, always being of second order, take place in the 5D case. Moreover, we find that the translating superfluid velocity from second order to first order increases with the mass squared. Furthermore, for the supercurrent with fixed temperature, the results agree with the Ginzburg-Landau prediction near the critical temperature. In addition, this complex vector superfluid model is still a generalization of the SU(2) superfluid model, and it also provides a holographic realization of the superfluid system.