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Stable vortex structures in colliding self-gravitating Bose-Einstein condensates

Pattern Formation and Solitons 2023-07-19 v1 Quantum Gases

Abstract

A key feature of ultra-light dark matter composed by bosons is the formation of superfluid Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) structures on galactic scales. We study collisions of BEC solitonic and vortex structures in the framework of the Gross-Pitaevskii-Poisson model. It is found that the superfluid nature of bosonic dark matter leads to the formation of quantized vortex lines and vortex rings in interference patterns formed during collisions. Calculating the gravitational wave luminosity, we demonstrated that quantum interference patterns affect notably the gravitational wave radiation. We reveal that superfluid self-gravitating BECs can form stable localized vortex structures which remain robust even after a head-on collision.

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@article{arxiv.2212.06116,
  title  = {Stable vortex structures in colliding self-gravitating Bose-Einstein condensates},
  author = {Y. O. Nikolaieva and Y. M. Bidasyuk and K. Korshynska and E. V. Gorbar and Junji Jia and A. I. Yakimenko},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.06116},
  year   = {2023}
}

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9 pages, 8 figures

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