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Gravitational collapse in the Schr\"odinger-Poisson system

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics 2018-01-24 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We perform a quantitative comparison between N-body simulations and the Schr\"odinger-Poisson system in 1+1 dimensions. In particular, we study halo formation with different initial conditions. We observe the convergence of various observables in the Planck constant h-bar and also test virialization. We discuss the generation of higher order cumulants of the particle distribution function which demonstrates that the Schr\"odinger-Poisson equations should not be perceived as a generalization of the dust model with quantum pressure but rather as one way of sampling the phase space of the Vlasov-Poisson system -- just as N-body simulations. Finally, we quantitatively recover the scaling behavior of the halo density profile from N-body simulations.

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@article{arxiv.1710.04846,
  title  = {Gravitational collapse in the Schr\"odinger-Poisson system},
  author = {Mathias Garny and Thomas Konstandin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.04846},
  year   = {2018}
}

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18 pages, 7 figures

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