A scalar field is, to be frank, the most simple type of field you can have. What it says is, ... and you have to purge the theory of all the scalar ones. Put simply, ...

Researchers, in a recent Physical Review Letters paper, introduce a new mechanism that may finally allow ultralight dark ...

This is a scalar φ4 field theory (or phase-field model) that minimally violates detailed balance via a leading-order square-gradient term.

Scalar Field: A field described by a single numerical value at every point in space and time, used to model a variety of physical phenomena from particle interactions to cosmological dynamics.

The work of US physicists Robert Dicke and Carl Brans, this theory proposed that alongside spacetime and its contents, the universe has a third component, the “scalar field”.

An alternative, known as scalar-tensor theories, goes back to the early 1960s and is the work of physicists Robert Dicke and Carl Brans, so sometimes it gets the name Brans-Dicke theory. In scalar ...

(Phys.org)—A pair of mathematicians—one from Indiana University and the other from Sichuan University in China—have proposed a unified theory of dark matter and dark energy that alters ...

Crucially, this scalar field carries information about the black hole inside it, which would allow scientists to understand more about black holes without having to plunge inside them.

The scalar-tensor theory of gravitation proposed by Mbelek and Lachièze-Rey has been shown to lead to a possible explanation of the forces measured in asymmetric resonant microwave cavities. However, ...

A scalar field is like the temperature throughout the atmosphere: ... If a theory only works with some additional scalar field, then the field should change the behavior of the pulsar.