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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

When particles with integer spin accumulate at low temperature and high density they undergo Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC). Atoms, solid-state excitons and excitons coupled to light all exhibit BEC, which results in high coherence due to…

The axion is a motivated cold dark matter candidate, which it would be interesting to distinguish from weakly interacting massive particles. Sikivie has suggested that axions could behave differently during non-linear galaxy evolution, if…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Sacha Davidson , Martin Elmer

We present a comprehensive theoretical investigation of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) and their manifestations in astrophysical and cosmological contexts. Building upon the foundations of quantum statistics in curved spacetime, we derive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-25 Nader Haddad

It has previously been shown that a dye-filled microcavity can produce a Bose-Einstein condensate of photons. Thermalization of photons is possible via repeated absorption and re-emission by the dye molecules. In this paper, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-18 Ryan I. Moodie , Peter Kirton , Jonathan Keeling

Axions and similar very weakly interacting particles are increasingly compelling candidates for the cold dark matter of the universe. Having very low mass and being produced non-thermally in the early Universe, axions feature extremely high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Juergen Berges , Joerg Jaeckel

Dark matter axions form a rethermalizing Bose-Einstein condensate. This provides an opportunity to distinguish axions from other forms of dark matter on observational grounds. I show that if the dark matter is axions, tidal torque theory…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Pierre Sikivie

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

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…

This is a brief review on the history of the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) or boson star model of galactic dark matter halos, where ultra-light scalar dark matter particles condense in a single BEC quantum state. The halos can be described…

Astrophysics · Physics 2013-08-22 Jae-Weon Lee

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

If cosmological cold dark matter (CDM) consists of light enough bosonic particles that their phase-space density exceeds unity, they will comprise a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). The nature of this BEC-CDM as a quantum fluid may then…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-22 Tanja Rindler-Daller , Paul R. Shapiro

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…

A Bose gas in a double-well potential, exhibiting a true Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) amplitude and initially performing Josephson oscillations, is a prototype of an isolated, non-equilibrium many-body system. We investigate the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-11-06 Anna Posazhennikova , Mauricio Trujillo-Martinez , Johann Kroha

We theoretically analyze the temperature behavior of paraxial light in thermal equilibrium with a dye-filled optical microcavity. At low temperatures the photon gas undergoes Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC), and the photon number in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2012-05-16 Jan Klaers , Julian Schmitt , Tobias Damm , Frank Vewinger , Martin Weitz

In this study, we examine the emergence of photon Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) resulting from the interaction of high-energy photons with a cold electron gas, modeled via a modified Kompaneets equation. Beginning with an initial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-26 Bing'ang Guo , Wei Kou , Xurong Chen

We assume that dark matter is composed of scalar particles that form a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) at some point during the cosmic evolution. Afterwards, cold dark matter is in the form of a condensate and behaves slightly different from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Hermano Velten , Etienne Wamba

Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) is a quantum mechanical phenomenon directly linked to the quantum statistics of bosons. While cold atomic gases provide a new arena for exploring the nature of BEC, a long-term quest to confirm BEC of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-07-11 Kosuke Yoshioka , Eunmi Chae , Makoto Kuwata-Gonokami

We discuss the thermal evolution and Bose-Einstein condensation of ultra-light dark matter particles at finite, realistic cosmological temperatures. We find that if these particles decouple from regular matter before Standard model…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-04 Andrew P. Lundgren , Mihai Bondarescu , Ruxandra Bondarescu , Jayashree Balakrishna

It is conceivable that a bosonic dark matter (DM) with non-gravitational interactions with SM particles will be accumulated at the center of a neutron star (NS) and can lead to black hole formation. In contrast to previous works with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-24 Koushik Dutta , Deep Ghosh , Biswarup Mukhopadhyaya