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Superfluid stars and Q-balls in curved spacetime

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2021-03-02 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

Within the framework of the theory of strongly-interacting quantum Bose liquids, we consider a general relativistic model of self-interacting complex scalar fields with logarithmic nonlinearity taken from dense superfluid models. We demonstrate the existence of gravitational equilibria in this model, described by spherically symmetric nonsingular finite-mass asymptotically-flat solutions. These equilibrium configurations can describe both massive astronomical objects, such as bosonized superfluid stars or cores of neutron stars, and finite-size particles and non-topological solitons, such as Q-balls. We give an estimate for masses and sizes of such objects.

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@article{arxiv.2103.00818,
  title  = {Superfluid stars and Q-balls in curved spacetime},
  author = {Konstantin G. Zloshchastiev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.00818},
  year   = {2021}
}

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5 pages, 7 figures