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In single-field inflation, the field responsible for inflation, or inflaton, is taken to be displaced from a potential minimum. The field evolution is responsible for the accelerated expansion in the early universe which ends when the field value gets close to the minimum. The majority of this thesis focuses on work revolving around inflationary model building and quantum signatures of inflation on the Cosmic Microwave background. The structure is as follows. In Chapter 1 we will review general relativity and Einstein's field equations. Chapter 2 will cover the basics of inflation. Chapter 3 is devoted to the first collaboration I worked on, involving arbitrary gauge Phantom Dark Energy. One of my major projects, Constant-Roll Inflation, is covered in Chapter 4. The final work of my PhD on signatures of Bell's inequality in the CMB is covered in Chapter 5. Finally, we conclude in Chapter 6.","**To request an accessible version of the file(s) associated with this item, contact library@buffalo.edu. Please include the item's persistent URL [http://hdl.handle.net/. . .] in your request.**"]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["Constant-Roll Inflation, Phantom Dark Energy, & Bell Violation in the CMB"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Kinney, William","Physics"],"dc:creator":["Morse, Michael; 0000-0002-6719-4546"],"dc:date":["2025-02-21T21:35:55Z","2020"],"dc:description":["Ph.D.","One of the most promising theories of the early universe is that of inflation [1–7]. Inflation predicts a period of accelerated expansion in the early universe, which provides simultaneous solutions for the flatness and homogeneity of the current universe. Furthermore, inflation predicts that scalar curvature perturbations from quantum fluctuations of the scalar field generating inflation result in areas of over- and under-density in the universe, leading to structure formation [8–16]. One family of inflationary models is that of single scalar fields. In single-field inflation, the field responsible for inflation, or inflaton, is taken to be displaced from a potential minimum. The field evolution is responsible for the accelerated expansion in the early universe which ends when the field value gets close to the minimum. The majority of this thesis focuses on work revolving around inflationary model building and quantum signatures of inflation on the Cosmic Microwave background. The structure is as follows. In Chapter 1 we will review general relativity and Einstein's field equations. Chapter 2 will cover the basics of inflation. Chapter 3 is devoted to the first collaboration I worked on, involving arbitrary gauge Phantom Dark Energy. One of my major projects, Constant-Roll Inflation, is covered in Chapter 4. The final work of my PhD on signatures of Bell's inequality in the CMB is covered in Chapter 5. Finally, we conclude in Chapter 6.","**To request an accessible version of the file(s) associated with this item, contact library@buffalo.edu. Please include the item's persistent URL [http://hdl.handle.net/. . .] in your request.**"],"dc:format":["application/pdf"],"dc:identifier":["http://hdl.handle.net/10477/86640"],"dc:language":["eng"],"dc:publisher":["State University of New York at Buffalo"],"dc:rights":["Users of works found in University at Buffalo Institutional Repository (UBIR) are responsible for identifying and contacting the copyright owner for permission to reuse. 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