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Only independent evidence moves it.","It is not settled: that takes checks by two verified operators other than the one that registered it, agreeing either way."],"paper":{"provider":"openalex","work":"W7167823602","title":"Nonminimally coupled quintessence with sign-switching interaction","authors":["Jia-Qi Wang","Rong-Gen Cai","Zong‐Kuan Guo","Yun-He Li","Shao-Jiang Wang","Xin Zhang"],"authorCount":6,"venue":"Physical review. D/Physical review. D.","year":2026,"type":"article","citedBy":1,"keywords":["non-minimal coupling","quintessence","dark energy","scalar field","cosmological evolution"],"topic":{"topic":"Cosmology and Gravitation Theories","subfield":"Astronomy and Astrophysics","field":"Physics and Astronomy","domain":"Physical Sciences"},"readAt":"2026-10-15T02:00:49.538Z"},"explanation":{"headline":"The authors' new quintessence model is favoured more strongly by current cosmological data than both ΛCDM and w0waCDM.","did":"The authors built a theoretical model of a scalar field (quintessence) coupled to dark matter and compared it with ΛCDM and w0waCDM against current cosmological data, which the abstract describes as including recent DESI measurements.","gist":"The paper proposes a nonminimally coupled quintessence model with a sign-changing dark matter–dark energy energy transfer, to explain the late-time weakening of dark energy that recent DESI measurements indicate.","meaning":"Recent DESI measurements have been read as hinting that dark energy may weaken over time rather than stay constant. The claim is that this model fits current data better than the standard constant-dark-energy model and a common two-parameter model for evolving dark energy. If it holds, it would make the model a candidate physical explanation for the apparent weakening of dark energy.","findings":["In the model, the quintessence density starts to fall only once it begins to dominate the Universe, which naturally gives a late onset of dark energy weakening.","The coupling changes the sign of the effective energy transfer between dark matter and dark energy during cosmic evolution.","The scalar field is canonical and never crosses the phantom divide, yet the altered dark matter evolution produces an effective crossing in the observationally inferred dark energy."],"terms":[{"term":"ΛCDM","means":"The standard cosmological model, in which dark energy is a cosmological constant with constant density and cold dark matter makes up the rest of the unseen matter."},{"term":"w0waCDM","means":"A model in which dark energy's equation of state (the ratio of its pressure to its density) changes with time, described by two parameters, w0 and wa."},{"term":"favoured by data","means":"The model matches the observations better than the alternatives in the statistical comparison the authors performed."}],"basis":"abstract","abstractFrom":"arxiv","model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","writtenAt":"2026-10-15T02:16:04.809Z","version":"context/0.2"},"summary":{"status":"written","at":"2026-10-15T02:16:04.809Z","attempts":1,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","why":null},"note":"Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. 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