TY - JOUR A1 - Ecker, Christian A1 - Kiritsis, Elias A1 - Schee, Wilke van der T1 - Dynamical inflaton coupled to strongly interacting matter T2 - Physical review letters N2 - According to the inflationary theory of cosmology, most elementary particles in the current Universe were created during a period of reheating after inflation. In this Letter, we self-consistently couple the Einstein-inflaton equations to a strongly coupled quantum field theory as described by holography. We show that this leads to an inflating universe, a reheating phase, and finally a universe dominated by the quantum field theory in thermal equilibrium. Y1 - 2023 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/83825 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-838251 VL - 130 IS - 25, article 251001 PB - American Physical Society CY - College Park, Md. ER -