Viscous dark energy and phantom field in an anisotropic universe

Abstract

In this paper we have investigated the general form of viscous and non-viscous dark energy equation of state (EoS) parameter in the scope of anisotropic Bianchi type I space-time. We show that the presence of bulk viscosity causes transition of ω de from quintessence to phantom but the phantom state is an unstable state (as expected) and EoS of DE tends to −1 at late time. Then we show this phantomic description of the viscous dark energy and reconstruct the potential of the phantom scalar field. It is found that bulk viscosity pushes the universe to a darker region. We have also shown that at late time q∼−Ω de .