Particle Cosmology Group

at the University of Science and Technology of China

Publications

2023

Primordial black hole mass functions as a probe of cosmic origin
Yi-Fu Cai, Chengfeng Tang, Geyu Mo, Shengfeng Yan, Chao Chen, Xiaohan Ma, Bo Wang, Wentao Luo, Damien Easson, Antonino Marciano
e-Print: 2301.09403

Quasinormal Modes in Noncommutative Schwarzschild black holes
Y. Zhao, Yifu Cai, S. Das, G. Lambiase, E.N. Saridakis, E.C. Vagenas
e-Print: 2301.09147

2022

A ~200 pc-sized core of Milky Way dark matter halo constrained from the OGLE micro-lensing sky map
Shu-Rui Lin, Wentao Luo, Yi-Fu Cai, Qi Guo, Leyao Wei, Bo Wang, Qinxun Li, Can-Po Su, Vitali Halenka, Alexander Rodriguez
e-Print: 2211.00666

Enhance Primordial Black Hole Abundance through the Non-linear Processes around Bounce Point
Jie-Wen Chen, Mian Zhu, Sheng-Feng Yan, Qing-Qing Wang, Yifu Cai
e-Print: 2207.14532

Highly non-Gaussian tails and primordial black holes from single-field inflation
Yi-Fu Cai, Xiao-Han Ma, Misao Sasaki, Dong-Gang Wang, Zihan Zhou
e-Print: 2207.11910

Microlensing effect of a charged spherically symmetric wormhole
Lei-Hua Liu, Mian Zhu, Wentao Luo, Yi-Fu Cai, Yi Wang
e-Print: 2207.05406

Quasinormal modes of black holes in f(T)f(T) gravity
Yaqi Zhao, Xin Ren, Amara Ilyas, Emmanuel N. Saridakis, Yi-Fu Cai
e-Print: 2204.06845

Gaussian processes and effective field theory of f(T) gravity under the H_0 tension
Xin Ren, Sheng-Feng Yan, Yaqi Zhao, Yi-Fu Cai, Emmanuel N. Saridakis
Published in: Astrophys.J. (2022) • e-Print: 2203.01926

Experimental Constraints on Exotic Spin-Dependent Interactions by a Magnetometer with Ensembles of Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in Diamond
Hang Liang, Man Jiao, Yue Huang, Pei Yu, Xiangyu Ye, Ya Wang, Yijin Xie, Yi-Fu Cai, Xing Rong, Jiangfeng Du
e-Print: 2201.04408

2021

One Small Step for an Inflaton, One Giant Leap for Inflation: a novel non-Gaussian tail and primordial black holes
Yi-Fu Cai, Xiao-Han Ma, Misao Sasaki, Dong-Gang Wang, Zihan Zhou
e-Print: 2112.13836

Future prospects on constraining neutrino cosmology with the Ali CMB Polarization Telescope
Dongdong Zhang, Jiarui Li, Jiaqi Yang, Yufei Zhang, Yi-Fu Cai
e-Print: 2112.10539

Cosmological Standard Timers from Unstable Primordial Relics
Yi-Fu Cai, Chao Chen , Qianhang Ding, Yi Wang
e-Print: 2112.10422

BOSS full-shape analysis from the EFTofLSS with exact time dependence
Pierre Zhang, Yifu Cai
e-Print: 2111.05739

BOSS Correlation Function Analysis from the Effective Field Theory of Large-Scale Structure
Pierre Zhang, Guido D'Amico, Leonardo Senatore, Cheng Zhao, Yifu Cai
e-Print: 2110.07539

Henry Tye: the future of theoretical physics and advice to young researchers
Yi-Fu Cai, Sheng-Feng Yan
Published in: Natl.Sci.Rev. 8 (2021) 8, nwab074

Scalar and Tensor Perturbations in DHOST Bounce Cosmology
Mian Zhu , Amara Ilyas, Yunlong Zheng, Yi-Fu Cai, Emmanuel N. Saridakis
Published in: JCAP 11 (2021) 11, 045 • e-Print: 2108.01339

Beating the Lyth bound by parametric resonance during inflation
Yi-Fu Cai, Jie Jiang, Misao Sasaki, Valeri Vardanyan, Zihan Zhou
Published in: Phys.Rev.Lett 127 (2021) 25, 251301 • e-Print: 2105.12554

Ultrahigh-energy Gamma Rays and Gravitational Waves from Primordial Exotic Stellar Bubbles
Yi-Fu Cai, Chao Chen, Qianhang Ding, Yi Wang
e-Print: 2105.11481

Deflection angle and lensing signature of covariant f(T) gravity
Xin Ren, Yaqi Zhao, Emmanuel N. Saridakis, Yi-Fu Cai
Published in: JCAP 10 (2021) 062 • e-Print: 2105.04578

Data-driven Reconstruction of the Late-time Cosmic Acceleration with f(T) Gravity
Xin Ren, Thomas Hong Tsun Wong, Yi-Fu Cai, Emmanuel N. Saridakis
Published in: Phys.Dark Univ. 32 (2021) 100812 • e-Print: 2103.01260

CMB polarization analysis on circular scans
Jia-Rui Li, Chunlong Li, Jie Jiang, Yi-Fu Cai, Jacques Delabrouille, Deliang Wu, Hong Li
Published in: JCAP 08 (2021) 033 • e-Print: 2103.00561

New test on the Einstein equivalence principle through the photon ring of black holes
Chunlong Li, Hongsheng Zhao, Yi-Fu Cai
Published in: Phys.Rev.D 104 (2021) 6, 064027 • e-Print: 2102.10888

2020

Impacts of Hawking Radiation from Primordial Black Holes in Critical Collapse Model on the Light Element Abundances
Yudong Luo, Chao Chen, Motohiko Kusakabe, Toshitaka Kajino
Published in: JCAP 05 (2021) 042 e-Print: 2011.10937

Primordial black holes and gravitational waves from resonant amplification during inflation
Zihan Zhou, Jie Jiang, Yi-Fu Cai, Misao Sasaki, Shi Pi
Published in: Phys.Rev.D 102 (2020) 10, 103527 • e-Print: 2010.03537

Measuring the gravitomagnetic distortion from rotating halos I: methods
Chengfeng Tang, Pierre Zhang, Wentao Luo, Nan Li, Yi-Fu Cai, Shi Pi
Published in: Astrophys.J. 911 (2021) 1, 44 • e-Print: 2009.12011

NANOGrav results and Dark First Order Phase Transitions
Andrea Addazi, Yi-Fu Cai, Qingyu Gan, Antonino Marciano, Kaiqiang Zeng
Published in: Sci.China Phys.Mech.Astron. 64 (2021) 9, 290411 • e-Print: 2009.10327

Emergent Universe and Genesis from the DHOST Cosmology
Amara Ilyas, Mian Zhu, Yunlong Zheng, Yi-Fu Cai
Published in: JHEP 01 (2021) 141 • e-Print: 2009.10351

Sound speed resonance of the stochastic gravitational wave background
Yi-Fu Cai, Chunshan Lin, Bo Wang, Sheng-Feng Yan
Published in: Phys.Rev.Lett. 126 (2021) 7, 071303 • e-Print: 2009.09833

Experimental Constraint on an Exotic Parity-Odd Spin- and Velocity-Dependent Interaction with a Single Electron Spin Quantum Sensor
Man Jiao, Maosen Guo, Xing Rong, Yi-Fu Cai, Jiangfeng Du
Published in: Phys.Rev.Lett. 126 (2021) 7, 071303 • e-Print: 2009.09257

Testing the ALP-photon coupling with polarization measurements of Sagittarius A*
Guan-Wen Yuan, Ziqing Xia, Chengfeng Tang, Yaqi Zhao, Yi-Fu Cai, Yifan Chen, Jing Shu, Qiang Yuan
Published in: Phys.Rev.Lett. 127 (2021) 1, 010501 • e-Print: 2008.13662

Probing new physics with multi-vacua quantum tunnelings beyond standard model through gravitational waves
Zihan Zhou, Jun Yan, Andrea Addazi, Yi-Fu Cai, Antonino Marciano, Roman Pasechnik
Published in: Phys.Lett.B 812 (2021) 136026 • e-Print: 2003.13244

Dirac-Born-Infeld realization of sound speed resonance mechanism for primordial black holes
Chao Chen, Xiao-Han Ma, Yi-Fu Cai
Published in: Phys.Rev.D 102 (2020) 6, 063526 • e-Print: 2003.03821

DHOST Bounce
Amara Ilyas, Mian Zhu, Yunlong Zheng, Yi-Fu Cai, Emmanuel N. Saridakis
Published in: JCAP 09 (2020) 002 • e-Print: 2002.08269

Updated constraints on superconducting cosmic strings from the astronomy of fast radio bursts
Batool Imtiaz, Rui Shi, Yi-Fu Cai
Published in: Eur.Phys.J.C 80 (2020) 6, 500 • e-Print: 2001.11149

2019

Testing the equivalence principle via the shadow of black holes
Chunlong Li, Sheng-Feng Yan, Lingqin Xue, Xin Ren, Yi-Fu Cai, Damien A. Easson, Ye-Fei Yuan, Hongsheng Zhao
Published in: Phys.Rev.Res. 2 (2020) 023164 • e-Print: 1912.12629

Interpreting cosmological tensions from the effective field theory of torsional gravity
Sheng-Feng Yan, Pierre Zhang, Jie-Wen Chen, Xin-Zhe Zhang, Yi-Fu Cai, Emmanuel N. Saridakis
Published in: Phys.Rev.D 101 (2020) 12, 121301 • e-Print: 1909.06388

Primordial black holes from sound speed resonance in the inflaton-curvaton mixed scenario
Chao Chen, Yi-Fu Cai
Published in: JCAP 10 (2019) 068 • e-Print: 1908.03942

New test on General Relativity using galaxy-galaxy lensing with astronomical surveys
Zhaoting Chen, Wentao Luo, Yi-Fu Cai, Emmanuel N. Saridakis
Published in: Phys.Rev.D 102 (2020) 10, 104044 • e-Print: 1907.12225

Model-independent reconstruction of f(T) gravity from Gaussian Processes
Yi-Fu Cai, Martiros Khurshudyan, Emmanuel N. Saridakis
Published in: Astrophys.J. 888 (2020) 62 • e-Print: 1907.10813

Searching for an Exotic Spin-Dependent Interaction between Electrons at the Nanometer Scale with Molecular Rulers
Man Jiao, Xing Rong, Hang Liang, Yi-Fu Cai, Jiangfeng Du
Published in: Phys.Rev.D 101 (2020) 11, 115011 • e-Print: 1904.09428

Implications of the possible 21-cm line excess at cosmic dawn on dynamics of interacting dark energy
Chunlong Li, Xin Ren, Martiros Khurshudyan, Yi-Fu Cai
Published in: Phys.Lett.B 801 (2020) 135141 • e-Print: 1904.02458

When Primordial Black Holes from Sound Speed Resonance Meet a Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves
Yi-Fu Cai, Chao Chen, Xi Tong, Dong-Gang Wang, Sheng-Feng Yan
Published in: Phys.Rev.D 100 (2019) 4, 043518 • e-Print: 1902.08187

2018

Numerical study of inflationary preheating with arbitrary power-law potential and a realization of curvaton mechanism
Jie Jiang, Qiuyue Liang, Yi-Fu Cai, Damien A. Easson, Yang Zhang
Published in: Astrophys.J. 876 (2019) 2, 136 • e-Print: 1812.08220

Evading the theoretical no-go theorem for nonsingular bounces in Horndeski/Galileon cosmology
Shreya Banerjee, Yi-Fu Cai, Emmanuel N. Saridakis
Published in: Class.Quant.Grav. 36 (2019) 13, 135009 • e-Print: 1808.01170

Primordial Black Holes from Sound Speed Resonance during Inflation
Yi-Fu Cai, Xi Tong, Dong-Gang Wang, Sheng-Feng Yan
Published in: Phys.Rev.Lett. 121 (2018) 8, 081306 • e-Print: 1805.03639

Constraints on a Spin-Dependent Exotic Interaction between Electrons with Single Electron Spin Quantum Sensors
Xing Rong, Man Jiao, Jianpei Geng, Bo Zhang, Tianyu Xie, Fazhan Shi, Chang-Kui Duan, Yi-Fu Cai, Jiangfeng Du
Published in: Phys.Rev.Lett. 121 (2018) 8, 080402 • e-Print: 1804.07026

Two-field cosmological phase transitions and gravitational waves in the singlet Majoron model
Batool Imtiaz, Youping Wan, Yi-Fu Cai
Published in: Eur.Phys.J.C 79 (2019) 1, 25 • e-Print: 1804.05835

Searching for the Dark Force with 21-cm Spectrum in Light of EDGES
Chunlong Li, Yi-Fu Cai
Published in: Phys.Lett.B 788 (2019) 70-75 • e-Print: 1804.04816

The effective field theory approach of teleparallel gravity, f(T) gravity and beyond
Chunlong Li, Yong Cai, Yi-Fu Cai, Emmanuel N. Saridakis
Published in: JCAP 10 (2018) 001 • e-Print: 1803.09818

f(T) gravity after GW170817 and GRB170817A
Yi-Fu Cai, Chunlong Li, Emmanuel N. Saridakis, LingQin Xue
Published in: Phys.Rev.D 97 (2018) 10, 103513 • e-Print: 1801.05827

2017

Revisiting non-Gaussianity from non-attractor inflation models
Yi-Fu Cai, Xingang Chen, Mohammad Hossein Namjoo, Misao Sasaki, Dong-Gang Wang, Ziwei Wang
Published in: JCAP 05 (2018) 012 • e-Print: 1712.09998

Testing Dark Matter Models with Radio Telescopes in light of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Andrea Addazi, Yi-Fu Cai, Antonino Marciano
Published in: Phys.Lett.B 782 (2018) 732-736 • e-Print: 1712.03798

Probing Primordial Gravitational Waves: Ali CMB Polarization Telescope
Hong Li, Si-Yu Li, Yang Liu, Yong-Ping Li, Yifu Cai, Mingzhe Li, Gong-Bo Zhao, Cong-Zhan Liu, Zheng-Wei Li, He Xu, Di Wu, Yong-Jie Zhang, Zu-Hui Fan, Yong-Qiang Yao, Chao-Lin Kuo, Fang-Jun Lu, Xinmin Zhang
Published in: Natl.Sci.Rev. 6 (2019) 1, 145-154 • e-Print: 1710.03047

Searching for new particles beyond the standard model with a single electron-spin quantum sensor
Xing Rong, Mengqi Wang, Jianpei Geng, Xi Qin, Maosen Guo, Man Jiao, Yijin Xie, Pengfei Wang, Pu Huang, Fazhan Shi, Yi-Fu Cai, Chongwen Zou, Jiangfeng Du
Published in: Nature Commun. 9 (2018) 1, 739 • e-Print: 1706.03482

Superconducting cosmic strings as sources of cosmological fast radio bursts
Jiani Ye, Kai Wang, Yi-Fu Cai
Published in: Eur.Phys.J.C 77 (2017) 11, 720 • e-Print: 1705.10956

2016

Holographic Preheating: Quasi-Normal Modes and Holographic Renormalization
Yi-Fu Cai, Shu Lin, Junyu Liu, Jia-Rui Sun
e-Print: 1612.04394

Holographic Preheating
Yi-Fu Cai, Shu Lin, Junyu Liu, Jia-Rui Sun
e-Print: 1612.04377

Matter bounce cosmology with a generalized single field: non-Gaussianity and an extended no-go theorem
Yu-Bin Li, Jerome Quintin, Dong-Gang Wang, Yi-Fu Cai
Published in: JCAP 03 (2017) 031 • e-Print: 1612.02036

Dark matter and baryogenesis in the Fermi-bounce curvaton mechanism
Andrea Addazi, Stephon Alexander, Yi-Fu Cai, Antonino Marciano
Published in: Chin.Phys.C 42 (2018) 6, 065101 • e-Print: 1612.00632

Bouncing cosmologies with dark matter and dark energy
Yi-Fu Cai, Antonino Marciano, Dong-Gang Wang, Edward Wilson-Ewing
Published in: Universe 3 (2016) 1, 1 • e-Print: 1610.00938

Tracing Primordial Black Holes in Nonsingular Bouncing Cosmology
Jie-Wen Chen, Junyu Liu, Hao-Lan Xu, Yi-Fu Cai
Published in: Phys.Lett.B 769 (2017) 561-568 • e-Print: 1609.02571

Differentiating G-inflation from String Gas Cosmology using the Effective Field Theory Approach
Minxi He, Junyu Liu, Shiyun Lu, Siyi Zhou, Yi-Fu Cai, Yi Wang, Robert Brandenberger
Published in: JCAP 12 (2016) 040 • e-Print: 1608.05079

Features from the non-attractor beginning of inflation
Yi-Fu Cai, Jinn-Ouk Gong, Dong-Gang Wang, Ziwei Wang
Published in: JCAP 10 (2016) 017 • e-Print: 1607.07872

Magnetogenesis in bouncing cosmology
Peng Qian, Yi-Fu Cai, Damien A. Easson, Zong-Kuan Guo
Published in: Phys.Rev.D 94 (2016) 8, 083524 • e-Print: 1607.06578

Probing the origin of our universe through primordial gravitational waves by Ali CMB project
Yi-Fu Cai, Xinmin Zhang
Published in: Sci.China Phys.Mech.Astron. 59 (2016) 7, 670431 • e-Print: 1605.01840

Hearing the echoes of electroweak baryogenesis with gravitational wave detectors
Fa Peng Huang, Youping Wan, Dong-Gang Wang, Yi-Fu Cai, Xinmin Zhang
Published in: Phys.Rev.D 94 (2016) 4, 041702 • e-Print: 1601.01640

Fluctuations in a Cosmology with a Space-Like Singularity and their Gauge Theory Dual Description
Robert H. Brandenberger, Yi-Fu Cai, Sumit R. Das, Elisa G. M. Ferreira, Ian A. Morrison, Yi Wang
Published in: Phys.Rev.D 94 (2016) 8, 083508 • e-Print: 1601.00231

2015

Searching for a matter bounce cosmology with low redshift observations
Yi-Fu Cai, Francis Duplessis, Damien A. Easson, Dong-Gang Wang
Published in: Phys.Rev.D 93 (2016) 4, 043546 • e-Print: 1512.08979

f(T) teleparallel gravity and cosmology
Yi-Fu Cai, Salvatore Capozziello, Mariafelicia De Laurentis, Emmanuel N. Saridakis
Published in: Rept.Prog.Phys. 79 (2016) 10, 106901 • e-Print: 1511.07586

Bounce Inflation Cosmology with Standard Model Higgs Boson
Youping Wan, Taotao Qiu, Fa Peng Huang, Yi-Fu Cai, Hong Li, Xinmin Zhang
Published in: JCAP 12 (2015) 019 • e-Print: 1509.08772

Scale-dependent CMB power asymmetry from primordial speed of sound and a generalized δN formalism
Dong-Gang Wang, Yi-Fu Cai, Wen Zhao, Yang Zhang
Published in: JCAP 12 (2016) 019 • e-Print: 1509.02541

Features and stability analysis of non-Schwarzschild black hole in quadratic gravity
Yi-Fu Cai, Hezi Zhang, Junyu Liu, Gong Cheng, Min Wang
Published in: JHEP 01 (2016) 108 • e-Print: 1508.04776

Evolution of cosmological perturbations and the production of non-Gaussianities through a nonsingular bounce: Indications for a no-go theorem in single field matter bounce cosmologies
Jerome Quintin, Zeinab Sherkatghanad, Yi-Fu Cai, Robert H. Brandenberger
Published in: Phys.Rev.D 92 (2015) 6, 063532 • e-Print: 1508.04141

Searching for features of a string-inspired inflationary model with cosmological observations
Yi-Fu Cai, Elisa G. M. Ferreira, Bin Hu, Jerome Quintin
Published in: Phys.Rev.D 92 (2015) 12, 121303 • e-Print: 1507.05619

Nonsingular Cosmology from an Unstable Higgs Field
Robert H. Brandenberger, Yi-Fu Cai, Youping Wan, Xinmin Zhang
Published in: Int.J.Mod.Phys.D 26 (2017) 01, 1740006 • e-Print: 1506.06770

An Extended Matter Bounce Scenario: current status and challenges
Jaume de Haro, Yi-Fu Cai
Published in: Gen.Rel.Grav. 47 (2015) 8, 95 • e-Print: 1502.03230