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Bose-Einstein Condensates in Charged Black-Hole Spacetimes

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2018-02-26 v1

Abstract

We analyze Bose-Einstein condensates on three types of spherically symmetric and static charged black-hole spacetimes: The Reissner-Nordstr\"om spacetime, Hoffmann's Born-Infeld black-hole spacetime, and the regular Ay\'on-Beato-Garc\'ia spacetime. The Bose-Einstein condensate is modeled in terms of a massive scalar field that satisfies a Klein-Gordon equation with a self-interaction term. The scalar field is assumed to be uncharged and not self-gravitating. If the mass parameter of the scalar field is chosen sufficiently small, there are quasi-bound states of the scalar field that may be interpreted as dark matter clouds. We estimate the size and the total energy of such clouds around charged supermassive black holes and we investigate if their observable features can be used for discriminating between the different types of charged black holes.

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@article{arxiv.1708.09057,
  title  = {Bose-Einstein Condensates in Charged Black-Hole Spacetimes},
  author = {Elías Castellanos and Juan Carlos Degollado and Claus Lämmerzahl and Alfredo Macías and Volker Perlick},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.09057},
  year   = {2018}
}

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19 pages, 8 figures

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