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Standard thermodynamical results of ideal Bose gases are used to study the possible formation of a cosmological Bose-Einstein condensate in Scalar Field Dark Matter models; the main hypothesis is that the boson particles were in thermal…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-10-27 L. Arturo Ureña-López

The study of the rotation curves of spiral galaxies reveals a nearly constant cored density distribution of Cold Dark Matter. N-body simulations however lead to a cuspy distribution on the galactic scale, with a central peak. A…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-12-18 M. Dwornik , Z. Keresztes , L. Á. Gergely

The fundamental phenomenon of Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) has been observed in different systems of real and quasi-particles. The condensation of real particles is achieved through a major reduction in temperature while for…

Axion dark matter thermalizes by gravitational self-interactions and forms a Bose-Einstein condensate. We show that the rethermalization of the axion fluid during the initial collapse of large scale overdensities near cosmic dawn transports…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-07 Pierre Sikivie , Yuxin Zhao

We consider the possibility that the dark matter, which is required to explain the dynamics of the neutral hydrogen clouds at large distances from the galactic center, could be in the form of a Bose-Einstein condensate. To study the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 C. G. Boehmer , T. Harko

Ensembles of particles governed by quantum mechanical laws exhibit fascinating emergent behavior. Atomic quantum gases, liquid helium, and electrons in quantum materials all show distinct properties due to their composition and…

We explore the viability of a boson dark matter candidate with an asymmetry between the number densities of particles and antiparticles. A simple thermal field theory analysis confirms that, under certain general conditions, this component…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-27 Anthony Aguirre , Alberto Diez-Tejedor

Applying the seminal work of Bose in 1924 on what was later known as Bose-Einstein statistics, Einstein predicted in 1925 that at sufficiently low temperatures, a macroscopic fraction of constituents of a gas of bosons will drop down to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-01 Saurya Das , R. K. Bhaduri

The particle that makes up the dark matter of the universe could be an axion or axion-like particle. A collection of axions can condense into a bound Bose-Einstein condensate called an axion star. It is possible that a significant fraction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-30 Eric Braaten , Hong Zhang

We analyze the observed properties of dwarf galaxies, which are dark matter dominated astrophysical objects, by assuming that dark matter is in the form of a strongly - coupled, dilute Bose - Einstein condensate. The basic astrophysical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-02 T. Harko

This is a review on the brief history of the scalar field dark matter model also known as fuzzy dark matter, BEC dark matter, wave dark matter, or ultra-light axion. In this model ultra-light scalar dark matter particles with mass $m =…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-24 Jae-Weon Lee

Attempts to create quantum degenerate gases without evaporative cooling have been pursued since the early days of laser cooling, with the consensus that polarization gradient cooling (PGC, also known as "optical molasses") alone cannot…

Dark matter consisting of ultralight bosons can form a macroscopic Bose-Einstein condensate with distinctive observational signatures. While this possibility has been extensively studied for axions and axion-like particles $-$ pseudoscalars…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-11 Michael W. Toomey , Savvas M. Koushiappas , Stephon Alexander

We investigate the structure of trapped Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) with long-range anisotropic dipolar interactions. We find that a small perturbation in the trapping potential can lead to dramatic changes in the condensate's density…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-02-08 Ryan M. Wilson , Shai Ronen , Han Pu , John L. Bohn

The Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) critical temperature in a relativistic ideal Bose gas of identical bosons, with and without the antibosons expected to be pair-produced abundantly at sufficiently hot temperatures, is exactly calculated…

Superconductivity · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Grether , M. de Llano , George A. Baker

The non elementary-boson nature of excitons controls Bose-Einstein condensation in semiconductors. Composite excitons interact predominantly through Pauli exclusion; this produces dramatic couplings between bright and dark states. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-23 Monique Combescot , Odile Betbeder-Matibet , Roland Combescot

We report an experiment of creating Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) on an atom chip. The chip based Z-wire current and a homogeneous bias magnetic field create a tight magnetic trap, which allows for a fast production of BEC. After an 4.17s…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-10-28 Bo Yan , Feng Cheng , Min Ke , Xiaolin Li , Jiuyao Tang , Yuzhu Wang

If dark matter in the galactic halo is composed of bosons that form a Bose-Einstein condensate then it is likely that the rotation of the halo will lead to the nucleation of vortices. After a review of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Ben Kain , Hong Y. Ling

We present the dynamics of rotating Bose Condensate galactic dark matter halos, made of an ultralight spinless boson. We restrict to the case of adding axisymmetric rigid rotation to initially spherically symmetric structures and show there…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-07 F. S. Guzman , F. D. Lora-Clavijo , J. J. Gonzalez-Aviles , F. J. Rivera-Paleo

Bose-Einstein condensate of rarified atomic gases is considered as the state formed by exchange of virtual photons, resonant to the lowest levels of atoms; such representation corresponds to the Einstein opinion about an inter-influence of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-04-14 Mark E. Perel'man