We review applications of string theory to cosmology, from primordial times to the present-
day accelerated expansion. Starting with a brief overview of cosmology and string …

The α-attractor models are some of the most interesting models of inflation from the point of
view of upcoming observations in cosmology and also attractive from the point of view of …

In this paper we show how the string landscape can be constrained using observational
data. We illustrate this idea by focusing on fiber inflation which is a promising class of string …

The natural inflation model with a periodic cosine potential is ruled out by recent Planck
2018 data for the decay constant f≲ 5.5 M Pl. If the Planck data is combined with the BICEP …

In a class of single field models of inflation, the idea of primordial black holes (PBHs)
production is studied. In this case, the dynamics on small cosmological scales differs …

We explore the behavior of the disconnected entanglement entropy (DEE) across the
topological phases of a long-range interacting Kitaev chain where the long-range …

We report an experimental work on simulating the Kitaev chain of one-dimensional p-wave
superconductivity with long-range coupling using superconducting quantum circuits. The …

We explore the consequences of a time-dependent inflaton equation-of-state (EoS)
parameter in the context of the post-inflationary perturbative Boltzmann reheating. In …

Generic features of models of inflation obtained from string compactifications are the
correlations between the model parameters and the postinflationary evolution of the …

We discuss the perturbative decay of the energy density of a nonstandard inflaton field ρ ϕ
and the corresponding creation of the energy density of the relativistic fields ρ r at the end of …