Professor Carsten van de Bruck
School of Mathematics and Statistics
Professor
Director of Research
C.vandeBruck@shef.ac.uk
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+44 114 222 3790
G19, Hicks Building
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Professor Carsten van de Bruck
School of Mathematics and Statistics
G19
Hicks Building
Hounsfield Road
Sheffield
S3 7RH
School of Mathematics and Statistics
G19
Hicks Building
Hounsfield Road
Sheffield
S3 7RH
- Profile
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I was educated in Germany and studied at the Universities of Bochum and Bonn. I was a postdoctoral researcher at Brown University (February 1999-January 2000), Cambridge University (February 2000-December 2002) and Oxford University (January 2003-February 2004) before I moved to a lectureship at the University of Sheffield.
- Research interests
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I am working in the field of cosmology, which is the study of the universe as a whole. I am interested in the question whether there are extra spatial dimensions and what the implications for the big bang theory are. My other field of interest is 'dark energy', which is the phenomenon that the expansion of the universe is accelerating instead of slowing down. This can be explained by either postulating a new, elusive and strange form of energy which pervades the universe or due to modifications of Einstein's theory of gravity. I am investigating the observational consequences of these theories.
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Journal articles
- Co-interacting dark matter and conformally coupled light scalars. Physical Review D, 105(10).
- Cointeracting dark matter and conformally coupled light scalars. Physical Review D, 105(10).
- Cosmology intertwined : a review of the particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology associated with the cosmological tensions and anomalies. Journal of High Energy Astrophysics, 34, 49-211. View this article in WRRO
- Snowmass2021 - Letter of interest cosmology intertwined II: the hubble constant tension. Astroparticle Physics, 131.
- Snowmass2021 - Letter of interest cosmology intertwined IV: the age of the universe and its curvature. Astroparticle Physics, 131.
- Snowmass2021 - Letter of interest cosmology intertwined I: Perspectives for the next decade. Astroparticle Physics, 131.
- Cosmology intertwined III: fσ8 and S8. Astroparticle Physics, 131.
- Dark D-brane cosmology: From background evolution to cosmological perturbations. Physical Review D, 102(10).
- Dark matter relic density from conformally or disformally coupled light scalars. Physical Review D, 102(2). View this article in WRRO
- Swampland and screened modified gravity. Physical Review D, 101(8). View this article in WRRO
- An interacting dark sector and the implications of the first gravitational-wave standard siren detection on current constraints. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 487(1), 900-907. View this article in WRRO
- Dark energy, the swampland, and the equivalence principle. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology, 100. View this article in WRRO
- Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity with extra dimensions. Galaxies. View this article in WRRO
- Searching for dark matter-dark energy interactions: Going beyond the conformal case. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 97(2). View this article in WRRO
- Probing the imprints of generalized interacting dark energy on the growth of perturbations. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2017(11). View this article in WRRO
- Reheating and preheating in the simplest extension of Starobinsky inflation. International Journal of Modern Physics D. View this article in WRRO
- Non-Gaussianity in multi-sound-speed disformally coupled inflation. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2017(02). View this article in WRRO
- Testing coupled dark energy models with their cosmological background evolution. Physical Review D, 95(4). View this article in WRRO
- Generalized dark energy interactions with multiple fluids. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2016(11). View this article in WRRO
- Vacuum Cherenkov radiation and bremsstrahlung from disformal couplings. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2016(08). View this article in WRRO
- Running of the running and entropy perturbations during inflation. Physical Review D, 94(2). View this article in WRRO
- Reheating in Gauss-Bonnet-coupled inflation. Physical Review D, 94(2). View this article in WRRO
- Disformally coupled inflation. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2016(03).
- Early modified gravity: Implications for cosmology. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 89(12).
- Constraints on nonconformal couplings from the properties of the cosmic microwave background radiation.. Phys Rev Lett, 111(16), 161302.
- Nonadiabatic pressure perturbation and noncanonical kinetic terms in multifield inflation. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 87(4).
- Modified Gravity and the Radiation Dominated Epoch. Physical Review D: Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 87(4). View this article in WRRO
- Inflationary predictions in scalar-tensor DBI inflation. JOURNAL OF COSMOLOGY AND ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS(6).
- Coupled quintessence and the halo mass function. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 85(2).
- Information gap for classical and quantum communication in a Schwarzschild spacetime. Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, 85(4). View this article in WRRO
- Linear growth of structure in the symmetron model. PHYSICAL REVIEW D, 84(12).
- Nonlinear structure formation with the environmentally dependent dilaton. PHYS REV D, 83(10).
- Embedding DBI inflation in scalar-tensor theory. J COSMOL ASTROPART P(3).
- Chameleons with field-dependent couplings. PHYS REV D, 82(8).
- Dilaton and modified gravity. PHYS REV D, 82(6).
- Tuning the Mass of Chameleon Fields in Casimir Force Experiments. PHYS REV LETT, 104(24).
- Modifying gravity at low redshift. J COSMOL ASTROPART P(4).
- Quintessence dynamics with two scalar fields and mixed kinetic terms. PHYS REV D, 80(12).
- Decoupling dark energy from matter. J COSMOL ASTROPART P(9). View this article in WRRO
- Slow-roll inflation in the presence of a dark energy coupling. PHYS REV D, 79(10). View this article in WRRO
- f(R) gravity and chameleon theories. PHYS REV D, 78(10). View this article in WRRO
- Brane inflation and defect formation.. Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng Sci, 366(1877), 2833-2842. View this article in WRRO
- New interactions in the dark sector mediated by dark energy. PHYS REV D, 77(4). View this article in WRRO
- Neutrino dark energy - Revisiting the stability issue. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2008(1).
- Racetrack inflation with matter fields and cosmic strings. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2008(7). View this article in WRRO
- Detecting chameleons through Casimir force measurements. PHYS REV D, 76(12).
- Testing chameleon theories with light propagating through a magnetic field. Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology, 76(8).
- Compatibility of the chameleon-field model with fifth-force experiments, cosmology, and PVLAS and CAST results.. Phys Rev Lett, 99(12), 121103. View this article in WRRO
- Cosmology of mass-varying neutrinos driven by quintessence: Theory and observations (vol 73, art no 083515, 2006). PHYS REV D, 76(4).
- Spectral running and non-Gaussianity from slow-roll inflation in generalized two-field models. J COSMOL ASTROPART P(2).
- Moduli corrections to D-term inflation. J COSMOL ASTROPART P(1).
- Viability of f(R) theories with additional powers of curvature. PHYS REV D, 74(6).
- Coupling hybrid inflation to moduli. J COSMOL ASTROPART P(9).
- Cosmic D-strings and vortons in supergravity. PHYS LETT B, 640(1-2), 7-12.
- Fermionic zero modes of supergravity cosmic strings. J HIGH ENERGY PHYS(6).
- Cosmology of mass-varying neutrinos driven by quintessence: Theory and observations. PHYS REV D, 73(8).
- Boundary inflation and the WMAP data. PHYS REV D, 73(6).
- Cosmology with massive neutrinos coupled to dark energy.. Phys Rev Lett, 96(6), 061301. View this article in WRRO
- Small scale structure formation in chameleon cosmology. PHYS LETT B, 633(4-5), 441-446.
- Braneworld cosmology, the CMB and the radion. Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements, 148, 64-74.
- Bulk black holes radiating in non-Z(2) brane-world spacetimes. J COSMOL ASTROPART P(4).
- Cosmic acceleration in massive half-maximal supergravity. PHYS LETT B, 609(1-2), 13-19.
- Cosmological perturbations during radion stabilization. PHYS REV D, 71(2).
- Brane world cosmology. REP PROG PHYS, 67(12), 2183-2231.
- Detecting dark energy in orbit: The cosmological chameleon. PHYS REV D, 70(12).
- Is the radion a chameleon?. J COSMOL ASTROPART P(11).
- On the spherical collapse model in dark energy cosmologies. ASTRON ASTROPHYS, 421(1), 71-81.
- Inflationary dynamics with runaway potentials. PHYS REV D, 69(8).
- Cosmological tensor perturbations in the Randall-Sundrum model: Evolution in the near-brane limit. PHYS REV D, 69(6).
- Boundary inflation in the moduli space approximation. PHYS REV D, 69(6).
- Gauge coupling variation in brane models. PHYS REV D, 68(12).
- CMB anisotropies in the presence of extra dimensions. PHYS REV D, 68(8).
- Cosmology and brane worlds: a review. CLASSICAL QUANT GRAV, 20(9), R201-R232.
- Cosmological evolution of brane world moduli. PHYS REV D, 67(2).
- Varying constants in brane world scenarios. ASTROPHYS SPACE SCI, 283(4), 627-632.
- Cosmological tensor perturbations in brane world models. ASTROPHYS SPACE SCI, 283(4), 633-638.
- Suppression of entropy perturbations in multifield inflation on the brane. PHYS REV D, 66(12).
- Four-dimensional gravity from singular spaces. PHYS REV D, 65(12).
- Wave function of the radion with a bulk scalar field. PHYS LETT B, 531(1-2), 135-142.
- Dynamical instabilities of the Randall-Sundrum model. PHYS REV D, 6406(6).
- Galaxy-QSO correlation induced by weak gravitational lensing arising from large-scale structure. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 325(1), 278-286.
- Cosmological perturbations in brane worlds: brane bending and anisotropic stresses. NUCL PHYS B, 605(1-3), 215-233.
- Cosmological perturbations in brane-world theories: Formalism. PHYS REV D, 6212(12). View this article in WRRO
- Cosmological consequences of the brane/bulk inter-action. PHYS LETT B, 495(1-2), 183-192.
- Gravitational instability and star formation in disc galaxies. MON NOT R ASTRON SOC, 306(1), 181-190. View this article in WRRO
- Tagungsberichte. Physik Journal, 54(12), 1137-1138.
- Theory of the expanding cosmos 75 years later: Friedmann models and the Einstein limit. NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN, 85(11), 524-538.
- Peculiar velocity field in structure formation theories with cosmic strings. PHYS REV D, 57(8), 4663-4668. View this article in WRRO
- Cosmic string network evolution in arbitrary Friedmann-Lemaitre models. PHYS REV D, 57(2), 1306-1308. View this article in WRRO
- Higgs inflation with a Gauss-Bonnet term in the Jordan frame. Physical Review D, 93(6).
- The variation of the fine-structure constant from disformal couplings. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2015(12), 018-018.
- Simplest extension of Starobinsky inflation. Physical Review D, 92(8).
- Stabilizing the Planck mass shortly after inflation. Physical Review D, 91(12).
- Effect of transitions in the Planck mass during inflation on primordial power spectra. Physical Review D, 90(10).
- Power spectra beyond the slow roll approximation in theories with non-canonical kinetic terms. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2014(08), 024-024.
- Moduli evolution in the presence of matter fields and flux compactification. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2007(11), 018-018.
- Complementary probes of inflationary cosmology. View this article in WRRO
- Brane-world cosmology, bulk scalars and perturbations. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2001(10), 026-026.
- Disformal couplings and the dark sector of the universe. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2015(04).
- Inflation and scale-invariant
R2
gravity. Physical Review D, 103(12).
Chapters
- Varying Constants in Brane World Scenarios, The Cosmology of Extra Dimensions and Varying Fundamental Constants (pp. 189-194). Springer Netherlands
- Cosmological Tensor Perturbations in Brane World Models, The Cosmology of Extra Dimensions and Varying Fundamental Constants (pp. 195-200). Springer Netherlands
Conference proceedings papers
- Laboratory tests of chameleon models. Proceedings of the 5th Patras Workshop on Axions, WIMPs and WISPs, PATRAS 2009 (pp 151-154)
- Dark energy and non-linear perturbations. Identification of Dark Matter (pp 31-36)
- Chameleon dark energy. PHI IN THE SKY: THE QUEST FOR COSMOLOGICAL SCALAR FIELDS, Vol. 736 (pp 105-110)
- The cosmological constant Lambda, the age of the universe and dark matter: Clues from the Ly alpha-forest. DARK MATTER IN ASTROPHYSICS AND PARTICLE PHYSICS 1998 (pp 181-196)
- Cosmic strings and structure formation. DARK MATTER IN ASTROPHYSICS AND PARTICLE PHYSICS 1998 (pp 17-31)
Preprints
- Transitioning from a bounce to $R^2$ inflation, arXiv.
- A hybrid model for the dark sector, arXiv.
- Constraints on Late Time Violations of the Equivalence Principle in the Dark Sector, arXiv.
- Cosmology Intertwined: A Review of the Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology Associated with the Cosmological Tensions and Anomalies, arXiv.
- Inflation and Scale-invariant $R^2$-Gravity, arXiv.
- Cosmology Intertwined IV: The Age of the Universe and its Curvature, arXiv.
- Cosmology Intertwined II: The Hubble Constant Tension, arXiv.
- Cosmology Intertwined III: $f sigma_8$ and $S_8$, arXiv.
- Cosmology Intertwined I: Perspectives for the Next Decade, arXiv.
- Dark D-Brane Cosmology: from background evolution to cosmological perturbations, arXiv.
- Dark matter relic density from conformally or disformally coupled light scalars, arXiv.
- The Swampland and Screened Modified Gravity, arXiv.
- Dark Energy, the Swampland and the Equivalence Principle, arXiv.
- Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity with extra dimensions, arXiv.
- Searching for dark matter - dark energy interactions: going beyond the conformal case, arXiv.
- Probing the imprints of generalized interacting dark energy on the growth of perturbations, arXiv.
- Testing coupled dark energy models with their cosmological background evolution, arXiv.
- Non-Gaussianity in multi-sound-speed disformally coupled inflation, arXiv.
- Reheating and preheating in the simplest extension of Starobinsky inflation, arXiv.
- Running of the Running and Entropy Perturbations During Inflation, arXiv.
- Reheating in Gauss-Bonnet-coupled inflation, arXiv.
- Generalized dark energy interactions with multiple fluids, arXiv.
- Vacuum Cherenkov radiation and bremsstrahlung from disformal couplings, arXiv.
- Higgs Inflation with a Gauss-Bonnet term in the Jordan Frame, arXiv.
- Disformally coupled inflation, arXiv.
- The variation of the fine-structure constant from disformal couplings, arXiv.
- The simplest extension of Starobinsky inflation, arXiv.
- Stabilising the Planck mass shortly after inflation, arXiv.
- Disformal couplings and the dark sector of the universe, arXiv.
- Effect of transitions in the Planck mass during inflation on primordial power spectra, arXiv.
- Power Spectra beyond the Slow Roll Approximation in Theories with Non-Canonical Kinetic Terms, arXiv.
- Early Modified Gravity: Implications for Cosmology, arXiv.
- Constraints on Disformal Couplings from the Properties of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, arXiv.
- The Non-Adiabatic Pressure Perturbation and Non-Canonical Kinetic Terms in Multifield Inflation, arXiv.
- Modified Gravity and the Radiation Dominated Epoch, arXiv.
- Information gap for classical and quantum communication in a Schwarzschild spacetime, arXiv.
- Inflationary predictions in scalar-tensor DBI inflation, arXiv.
- Linear Growth of Structure in the Symmetron Model, arXiv.
- Coupled Quintessence and the Halo Mass Function, arXiv.
- Nonlinear Structure Formation with the Environmentally Dependent Dilaton, arXiv.
- Embedding DBI inflation in scalar-tensor theory, arXiv.
- Chameleons with Field Dependent Couplings, arXiv.
- The Dilaton and Modified Gravity, arXiv.
- Tuning the Mass of Chameleon Fields in Casimir Force Experiments, arXiv.
- Modifying Gravity at Low Redshift, arXiv.
- Laboratory Tests of Chameleon Models, arXiv.
- Quintessence dynamics with two scalar fields and mixed kinetic terms, arXiv.
- Decoupling Dark Energy from Matter, arXiv.
- Slow-Roll Inflation in the Presence of a Dark Energy Coupling, arXiv.
- f(R) Gravity and Chameleon Theories, arXiv.
- Racetrack Inflation and Cosmic Strings, arXiv.
- Brane Inflation and Defect Formation, arXiv.
- Moduli Evolution in the Presence of Matter Fields and Flux Compactification, arXiv.
- New interactions in the dark sector mediated by dark energy, arXiv.
- Detecting Chameleons through Casimir Force Measurements, arXiv.
- Testing Chameleon Theories with Light Propagating through a Magnetic Field, arXiv.
- Neutrino Dark Energy -- Revisiting the Stability Issue, arXiv.
- Compatibility of the chameleon-field model with fifth-force experiments, cosmology, and PVLAS and CAST results, arXiv.
- Spectral Running and Non-Gaussianity from Slow-Roll Inflation in Generalised Two--Field Models, arXiv.
- Moduli Corrections to D-term Inflation, arXiv.
- Viability of f(R) Theories with Additional Powers of Curvature, arXiv.
- Coupling Hybrid Inflation to Moduli, arXiv.
- Cosmic D-Strings and Vortons in Supergravity, arXiv.
- Fermionic Zero Modes of Supergravity Cosmic Strings, arXiv.
- Cosmology of Mass-Varying Neutrinos Driven by Quintessence: Theory and Observations, arXiv.
- Small Scale Structure Formation in Chameleon Cosmology, arXiv.
- Boundary Inflation and the WMAP Data, arXiv.
- Brane World Cosmology, the CMB and the Radion, arXiv.
- Cosmology with massive neutrinos coupled to dark energy, arXiv.
- Dark Energy and Non-linear Perturbations, arXiv.
- Bulk black holes radiating in non-Z_2 brane-world spacetimes, arXiv.
- Cosmic Acceleration in Massive Half-Maximal Supergravity, arXiv.
- Chameleon Dark Energy, arXiv.
- Is the radion a chameleon?, arXiv.
- Cosmological Perturbations During Radion Stabilization, arXiv.
- Detecting Dark Energy in Orbit -- the Cosmological Chameleon, arXiv.
- Brane World Cosmology, arXiv.
- On the spherical collapse model in dark energy cosmologies, arXiv.
- Boundary Inflation in the Moduli Space Approximation, arXiv.
- Cosmological tensor perturbations in the Randall-Sundrum model: evolution in the near-brane limit, arXiv.
- CMB Anisotropies in the Presence of Extra Dimensions, arXiv.
- Gauge Coupling Variation in Brane Models, arXiv.
- Cosmology and Brane Worlds: A Review, arXiv.
- Inflationary Dynamics with Runaway Potentials, arXiv.
- Varying Constants in Brane World Scenarios, arXiv.
- Cosmological Evolution of Brane World Moduli, arXiv.
- Suppression of Entropy Perturbations in Multi--Field Inflation on the Brane, arXiv.
- Four--dimensional Gravity from Singular Spaces, arXiv.
- Wave function of the radion with a bulk scalar field, arXiv.
- Brane-World Cosmology, Bulk Scalars and Perturbations, arXiv.
- Dynamical Instabilities of the Randall-Sundrum Model, arXiv.
- Cosmological Perturbations in Brane Worlds: Brane Bending and Anisotropic Stresses, arXiv.
- Galaxy-QSO Correlation induced by Weak Gravitational Lensing arising from Large-Scale Structure, arXiv.
- Cosmological consequences of the brane/bulk interaction, arXiv.
- Cosmological Perturbations in Brane-World Theories: Formalism, arXiv.
- Cosmic Strings and Structure Formation, arXiv.
- The Cosmological Constant $Lambda$, the Age of the Universe and Dark Matter: Clues from the Ly$alpha$-Forest, arXiv.
- Gravitational instability and star formation in disk galaxies, arXiv.
- The Peculiar-Velocity-Field in Structure Formation Theories with Cosmic Strings, arXiv.
- Cosmic String Network Evolution in arbitrary Friedmann-Lemaitre models, arXiv.
- An interacting dark sector and the first gravitational-wave standard
siren detection.
- Gauss-Bonnet-coupled Quintessential Inflation. View this article in WRRO
- Branes at low energy.
- Brane World Moduli and the CMB.
- A Chameleon Primer.
- On Cosmological Perturbations on a Brane in an Anti-de Sitter Bulk.
- On the Origin of Very Wide Ly$α$-Absorption-Lines in Quasar Spectra.
- On Gravity, Holography and the Quantum.
- Co-interacting dark matter and conformally coupled light scalars. Physical Review D, 105(10).
- Research group
- Grants
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Current grants, as Principal Investigator
STFC Consortium: Fundamental Physics - Lancaster-Manchester-Sheffield STFC Past grants, as Principal Investigator STFC Consolidated Grant Renewal STFC Past grants, as Coinvestigator
Particle Physics: From the Early Universe to the Large Hadron Collider STFC Testing New Physics with Data from Particle Physics and Cosmology PPARC
- Teaching activities
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MAS324 Quantum Theory