Phys. Rev. D 71, 103504 (2005) [8 pages]Dark energy: Vacuum fluctuations, the effective phantom phase, and holographyReceived 8 February 2005; published 11 May 2005 We aim at the construction of dark energy models without exotic matter but with a phantomlike equation of state (an effective phantom phase). The first model we consider is decaying vacuum cosmology where the fluctuations of the vacuum are taken into account. In this case, the phantom cosmology (with an effective, observational ω being less than -1 ) emerges even for the case of a real dark energy with a physical equation of state parameter ω larger than -1. The second proposal is a generalized holographic model, which is produced by the presence of an infrared cutoff. It also leads to an effective phantom phase, which is not a transient one as in the first model. However, we show that quantum effects are able to prevent its evolution towards a big rip singularity. © 2005 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.71.103504
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.71.103504
PACS:
98.80.−k, 04.50.+h, 04.60.−m, 11.25.−w
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