DESI results and Dark Energy from QCD topological sectors

This model proposes dark energy arises from vacuum energy produced by tunnelling transitions between different topological sectors in Quantum ChromoDynamics (QCD) vacuum. It uses non-perturbative QCD calculations to show this mechanism can naturally produce a time-dependent equation of state parameter wDE that can cross the cosmological constant boundary, potentially resolving tensions with recent DESI observations.

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