Acoustic Rabi oscillations between gravitational quantum states and impact on symmetron dark energy

Understand

The standard model of cosmology provides a robust description of the evolution of the universe.

• Nevertheless, the small magnitude of the vacuum energy is troubling from a theoretical point of view.
• An appealing resolution to this problem is to introduce additional scalar fields.
• However, these have so far escaped experimental detection, suggesting some kind of screening mechanism may be at play.