Modeling dark energy through an ising fluid with network interactions

Luongo, O. and Tommasini, Damiano (2014) Modeling dark energy through an ising fluid with network interactions. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS D, 23 (3). ISSN 0218-2718

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Abstract

We show that the dark energy effects can be modeled by using an Ising perfect fluid with network interactions, whose low redshift equation of state, i.e. ω0, becomes ω0 = −1 as in the ΛCDM model. In our picture, dark energy is characterized by a barotropic fluid on a lattice in the equilibrium configuration. Thus, mimicking the spin interaction by replacing the spin variable with an occupational number, the pressure naturally becomes negative. We find that the corresponding equation of state mimics the effects of a variable dark energy term, whose limiting case reduces to the cosmological constant Λ. This permits us to avoid the introduction of a vacuum energy as dark energy source by hand, alleviating the coincidence and fine tuning problems. We find fairly good cosmological constraints, by performing three tests with supernovae Ia, baryonic acoustic oscillation and cosmic microwave background measurements. Finally, we perform the AIC and BIC selection criteria, showing that our model is statistically favored with respect to the CPL parametrization.

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