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Quintessence models of dark energy are studied as a viable alternative to the cosmological constant and feature an evolving scalar field which dominates the energy budget today causing accelerated expansion. In this chapter we present three stages of N-body simulations of structure formation in quintessence models. Each stage progressively relaxes the assumptions made and brings us closer to a full physical model. In the first stage, the initial conditions for each quintessence cosmology are generated using a \(\Lambda \)CDM linear theory power spectrum and the background cosmological parameters are the best fit values assuming a \(\Lambda \)CDM cosmology.
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We thank S.D.M. White for this suggestion.
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Jennings, E. (2012). Simulations of Quintessential Cold Dark Matter. In: Simulations of Dark Energy Cosmologies. Springer Theses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29339-9_3
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