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We examine in detail the mechanisms behind thermalization and Bose-Einstein condensation of a gas of photons in a dye-filled microcavity. We derive a microscopic quantum model, based on that of a standard laser, and show how this model can…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-03-23 Peter Kirton , Jonathan Keeling

Bose-Einstein condensates have been the subject of intense research in recent years due to their potential applications in quantum computing and many other areas. However, measuring the shape and size of out-of-equilibrium Bose-Einstein…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-03-20 J. P. G. Venassi , V. S. Bagnato , G. D. Telles

We present a theoretical analysis of some unexplored aspects of relaxed Bose-Einstein condensate dark matter (BECDM) haloes. This type of ultralight bosonic scalar field dark matter is a viable alternative to the standard cold dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 Philip Mocz , Mark Vogelsberger , Victor Robles , Jesus Zavala , Michael Boylan-Kolchin , Anastasia Fialkov , Lars Hernquist

If dark matter is composed of massive bosons, a Bose-Einstein Condensation process must have occurred during the cosmological evolution. Therefore galactic dark matter may be in a form of a condensate, characterized by a strong…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-24 Xiaoyue Zhang , Man Ho Chan , Tiberiu Harko , Shi-Dong Liang , Chun Sing Leung

Phenomena associated with the controlled collapse of a Bose-Einstein condensate described in the experiment of Donley et al (E. Donley et. al., Nature 412, 295 (2001); N. Claussen, Ph. D. Thesis, U. of Colorado (2003)) are explained here as…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Esteban Calzetta , Bei Lok Hu

In this paper we further elaborate on the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) dark matter model extended in our preceding work [Phys. Rev. D 102, 083510 (2020)] by the inclusion of 6th order (or three-particle) repulsive self-interaction term.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-10-01 A. M. Gavrilik , A. V. Nazarenko

We study the finite size effects on Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of an ideal non-relativistic Bose gas in the three-sphere (spatial section of the Einstein universe) and in a partially finite box which is infinite in two of the spatial…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-05-06 J. M. B. Noronha , D. J. Toms

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

The axions produced during the QCD phase transition by vacuum realignment, string decay and domain wall decay thermalize as a result of their gravitational self-interactions when the photon temperature is approximately 500 eV. They then…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-08 Nilanjan Banik , Adam Christopherson , Pierre Sikivie , Elisa Maria Todarello

We show that in the collapse of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) {For an excellent introduction to BEC theory, see C. Pethick and H. Smith, Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England, 2002)}…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 E. A. Calzetta , B. L. Hu

Because of their superfluid properties, some compact astrophysical objects such as neutron stars may contain a significant part of their matter in the form of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). We consider a partially-relativistic model of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-12 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

The scalar field dark matter (SFDM) model proposes that galaxies form by condensation of a scalar field (SF) very early in the universe forming Bose-Einstein Condensates (BEC) drops, i.e., in this model haloes of galaxies are gigantic drops…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-26 Victor H. Robles , Tonatiuh Matos

One of the most remarkable recent developments in the study of ultracold Bose gases is the observation of a reversible transition from a Bose Einstein condensate to a state composed of localized atoms as the strength of a periodic, optical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-09-23 M. Aizenman , E. H. Lieb , R. Seiringer , J. P. Solovej , J. Yngvason

We do not know 96% of the total matter in the universe at present. In this paper, a cosmological model is proposed in which Dark Energy (DE) is identified as Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) of some boson field. Global cosmic acceleration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Takeshi Fukuyama , Masahiro Morikawa

Theories on the bosonic nature of dark matter are a promising alternative to the cold dark matter model. Here we consider a dark matter halo in the state of a Bose-Einstein condensate, subject to the gravitation of a black hole. In the low…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-10-11 Ludovica Dieli , Claudio Conti

We study turbulence and Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) within the two-dimensional Gross-Pitaevski (GP) model. In the present work, we compute decaying GP turbulence in order to establish whether BEC can occur without forcing and if there…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 Sergey Nazarenko , Miguel Onorato

We study nonlinear structure formation in the Bound Dark Energy model (BDE), where dark energy (DE) corresponds to a light scalar meson particle $\phi$ dynamically formed at a condensation energy scale $\Lambda_c$. The evolution of this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-11 Erick Almaraz , Baojiu Li , Axel de la Macorra

Preparation of molecular quantum gas promises novel applications including quantum control of chemical reactions, precision measurements, quantum simulation and quantum information processing. Experimental preparation of colder and denser…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2021-04-29 Zhendong Zhang , Liangchao Chen , Kaixuan Yao , Cheng Chin

We investigate the structure and stability properties of compact astrophysical objects that may be formed from the Bose-Einstein condensation of dark matter. Once the critical temperature of a boson gas is less than the critical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-25 X. Y. Li , T. Harko , K. S. Cheng

Recent studies suggest that dark matter could take the form of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), a possibility motivated by anomalies in galactic rotation curves and the missing mass problem in galaxy clusters. We investigate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-01 Francisco S. N. Lobo , Tiberiu Harko