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Phys. Rev. D 78, 063001 (2008) [8 pages]

Dynamics of interacting phantom scalar field dark energy in loop quantum cosmology

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Xiangyun Fu1,2, Hongwei Yu1,2,*, and Puxun Wu3
1Department of Physics and Institute of Physics, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, China
2Key Laboratory of Low Dimensional Quantum Structures and Quantum Control of Ministry of Education, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, Hunan 410081, People’s Republic of China
3Department of Physics and Tsinghua Center for Astrophysics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China

Received 21 May 2008; published 2 September 2008

We study the dynamics of a phantom scalar field dark energy interacting with dark matter in loop quantum cosmology. Two kinds of coupling of the form αρmϕ˙ (case I) and 3βH(ρϕ+ρm) (case II) between the phantom energy and dark matter are examined with the potential for the phantom field taken to be exponential. For both kinds of interactions, we find that the future singularity appearing in the standard Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmology can be avoided by loop quantum gravity effects. In case II, if the phantom field is initially rolling down the potential, the loop quantum effect has no influence on the cosmic late time evolution and the universe will accelerate forever with a constant energy ratio between the dark energy and dark matter.

© 2008 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.78.063001
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.78.063001
PACS:
95.36.+x, 04.60.Pp, 98.80.−k

*Corresponding author.