Universal Acceleration and Fuzzy Dark Matter
Abstract
Observations of velocity dispersions of galactic structures over a wide range of scales point to the existence of a universal acceleration scale m/s. Focusing on the fuzzy dark matter paradigm, which proposes ultralight dark matter with mass around eV and de Broglie wavelength parsecs, we highlight the emergence of the observed acceleration scale from quantum effects in a fluid-like description of the dark matter dynamics. We then suggest the possibility of a natural connection between the acceleration scale and dark energy within the same paradigm.
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@article{arxiv.2405.08744,
title = {Universal Acceleration and Fuzzy Dark Matter},
author = {Douglas Edmonds and Joshua Erlich and Djordje Minic and Tatsu Takeuchi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.08744},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
This paper has been awarded 3rd Prize in the Gravity Research Foundation 2024 Awards for Essays on Gravitation, and is to be published in a special issue of the International Journal of Modern Physics D (IJMPD)