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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

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

We consider the properties of a gas of bosonic diatomic molecules in the limit when few of the molecules are dissociated. Taking into account the effects of dissociation and scattering among molecules and atoms, we calculate the dispersion…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-25 L. M. Jensen , H. Mäkelä , C. J. Pethick

We study the effect of temperature on the global properties of static and slowly rotating self-gravitating Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) stars within general relativity. We employ a recently developed temperature dependent BEC equation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-05 P. S. Aswathi , P. S. Keerthi , O. P. Jyothilakshmi , Lakshmi J. Naik , V. Sreekanth

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 self-gravitating condensate, in the presence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-23 Zahra Haghani , Tiberiu Harko

There has been considerable interest in the last several years in support of the idea that galaxies and clusters could have highly condensed cores of dark matter (DM) within their central regions. In particular, it has been suggested that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 Wen-Jian Chung , Lorne Nelson

In this paper, we search for correlations between the intrinsic properties of galaxies and the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) under a scalar field dark matter (SFDM) at temperature of condensation greater than zero. According to this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-02-28 A. Hernandez-Almada , Miguel A. Garcia-Aspeitia

Once the critical temperature of a cosmological boson gas is less than the critical temperature, a Bose-Einstein Condensation process can always take place during the cosmic history of the universe. Zero temperature condensed dark matter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-30 Tiberiu Harko , Eniko J. M. Madarassy

Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of Feshbach molecules in a homogeneous Bose gas is studied at finite temperatures in a single-channel mean-field approach where the Hartree-Fock energy and pairing gap are determined self-consistently. In…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-02-21 Zeng-Qiang Yu , Lan Yin

Spherical collapse of the Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) dark matter model is studied in the Thomas Fermi approximation. The evolution of the overdensity of the collapsed region and its expansion rate are calculated for two scenarios. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-11 Rodolfo C. de Freitas , Hermano Velten

We propose here the dark matter content of galaxies as a cold bosonic fluid composed of Weakly Interacting Slim Particles (WISPs), represented by spin-0 axion-like particles and spin-1 hidden bosons, thermalized in the Bose-Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-11-21 M. O. C. Pires , J. C. C. de Souza

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

Recently, the experimental realization of a Kapitza potential in a Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) has been reported for the first time in literature, motivating further theoretical investigations of such system. At the same time, in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-19 Itauany do Nascimento Barroso , Hermano Velten

Bose--Einstein Condensates have been recently proposed as dark matter candidates. In order to characterise the phenomenology associated to such models, we extend previous investigations by studying the most general case of a relativistic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-02-12 Dario Bettoni , Mattia Colombo , Stefano Liberati

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

Once the temperature of a bosonic gas is smaller than the critical, density dependent, transition temperature, a Bose - Einstein Condensation process can take place during the cosmological evolution of the Universe. Bose - Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Tiberiu Harko , Gabriela Mocanu

Many problems of cold dark matter models such as the cusp problem and the missing satellite problem can be alleviated, if galactic halo dark matter particles are ultra-light scalar particles and in Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), thanks to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Jae-Weon Lee , Sooil Lim

Though very popular, Bose-Einstein condensate models of dark matter have some difficulties. Here we propose the so-called $\mu$-Bose gas model ($\mu$-BGM) as a model of dark matter, able to treat weak points. Within $\mu$-BGM, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-04 A. M. Gavrilik , I. I. Kachurik , M. V. Khelashvili , A. V. Nazarenko

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 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