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Axion dark matter or any ultralight bosonic dark matter can go through Bose-Einstein condensation due to the large phase density, leading to the formation of axion stars or solitons in dark matter halo centers. The formation rate is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-13 Patrick J. Fox , Neal Weiner , Huangyu Xiao

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

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…

We study a cosmological model in which the boson dark matter gradually condensates into dark energy. Negative pressure associated with the condensate yields the accelerated expansion of the Universe and the rapid collapse of the smallest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Masako Nishiyama , Masa-aki Morita , Masahiro Morikawa

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

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

Relativistic axions are good candidates for the dark radiation for which there are mounting observational hints. The primordial decays of heavy fields produce axions which are ultra-energetic compared to thermalised matter and inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Joseph P. Conlon , M. C. David Marsh

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 analyze the rotation curves that correspond to a Bose--Einstein Condensate (BEC) type halo surrounding a Schwarzschild--type black hole to confront predictions of the model upon observations of galaxy rotation curves. We model the halo…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-27 Elías Castellanos , Celia Escamilla-Rivera , Jorge Mastache

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

We develop a self-consistent, Gravitoelectromagnetic (GEM) formulation of a slowly rotating, self-gravitating and dilute Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), intended for astrophysical applications in the context of dark matter halos. GEM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-06 Souvik Sarkar , Cenalo Vaz , L. C. R. Wijewardhana

The possibility that dark matter may be in the form of a Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) has been extensively explored at galactic scale. In particular, good fits for the galactic rotations curves have been obtained, and upper limits for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-17 Tiberiu Harko , Pengxiang Liang , Shi-Dong Liang , Gabriela Mocanu

Ultra-light dark matter may consist of axion-like particles with masses below 10^(-19) eV. Two-photon interactions of these particles affect the polarization of radiation propagating through the dark matter. Coherent oscillations of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-04 M. M. Ivanov , Y. Y. Kovalev , M. L. Lister , A. G. Panin , A. B. Pushkarev , T. Savolainen , S. V. Troitsky

By improving the Bose-Einstein condensate model of dark matter through the repulsive three-particle interaction to better reproduce observables such as rotation curves, both different thermodynamic phases and few-particle correlations are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-11-22 A. M. Gavrilik , A. V. Nazarenko

The critical temperature of Bose-Einstein condensation essentially depends on internal properties of the system as well as on the geometry of a trapping potential. The peculiarities of defining the phase transition temperature of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-05-31 V. I. Yukalov , E. P. Yukalova

We study Bose-Einstein condensation and formation of Bose stars in the virialized dark matter halos/miniclusters by universal gravitational interactions. We prove that this phenomenon does occur and it is described by kinetic equation. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-17 D. G. Levkov , A. G. Panin , I. I. Tkachev

Most of the galaxies harbor supermassive Black Holes (SMBH) in their center. Some of them are observed in very high redshifts. We explore the possibility that SMBH form from the coherent waves of Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) which are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-08 M. Morikawa , S. Takahashi

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

Galactic dark matter is modelled by a scalar field in order to effectively modify Kepler's law without changing standard Newtonian gravity. In particular, a solvable toy model with a self-interaction U(Phi) borrowed from non-topological…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 Eckehard W. Mielke , Burkhard Fuchs , Franz E. Schunck

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