Quintessence, Neutrino Masses and Unification of the Dark Sector
  The origin of the neutrino mass, dark matter (DM), and dark energy (DE) are
among the most challenging problems of fundamental physics. We address these
questions from analyses of the models where the neutrino mass is generated via
Yukawa coupling to the quintessence field which represents the DE. It has been
shown in a recent work on the toy model with a single Dirac fermion coupled to
the quintessence that by choosing parameters of the DE potential to match the
present DE density, the model allows to lock the neutrino mass at m ~0.01 eV
and yields consistent estimates for other parameters of the Universe. To
include the DM component into this framework we propose here to add the
right-handed Majorana term(s) into Lagrangian with the quintessence-generated
mass. As a results, the DE field is responsible for generation of the masses of
the light active Majorana neutrinos as well as of the heavy sterile neutrinos.
The latter are natural DM candidates.
