@article{eprints2905, volume = {82}, year = {2010}, author = {Fabio Saracco and M. Pietroni and N. Tetradis and V. Pettorino and G. Robbers}, journal = {Physical Review D}, title = {Nonlinear matter spectra in coupled quintessence}, month = {July}, pages = {023528}, publisher = {American Physical Society}, abstract = {We consider cosmologies in which a dark-energy scalar field interacts with cold dark matter. The growth of perturbations is followed beyond the linear level by means of the time-renormalization-group method, which is extended to describe a multicomponent matter sector. Even in the absence of the extra interaction, a scale-dependent bias is generated as a consequence of the different initial conditions for baryons and dark matter after decoupling. The effect is enhanced significantly by the extra coupling and can be at the 2\%?3\% level in the range of scales of baryonic acoustic oscillations. We compare our results with N-body simulations, finding very good agreement.}, url = {http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2905/} }