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This paper investigates chains of rotating boson stars (BSs) within Einstein gravity coupled to a complex scalar field. The model incorporates quartic or sextic self-interactions in the scalar Lagrangian, which support the existence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-09 Hao-Ran Sun , Jing-Kang Bin , Li Zhao

Fully non-linear numerical evolutions of the Einstein-(multi)--Klein-Gordon equations are performed to study head-on collisions of $\ell$-boson stars. Despite being spherically symmetric, $\ell$-boson stars have a (hidden) frame of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-06-08 Víctor Jaramillo , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Juan Barranco , Argelia Bernal , Juan Carlos Degollado , Carlos Herdeiro , Miguel Megevand , Darío Núñez

We study the properties of the ground state of Nonlinear Schr\"odinger Equations with spatially inhomogeneous interactions and show that it experiences a strong localization on the spatial region where the interactions vanish. At the same…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2015-05-13 Victor M. Perez-Garcia , Rosa Pardo

Using relativistic kinetic theory, we study spherically symmetric, static equilibrium configurations of a collisionless Maxwell-Boltzmann gas with non-standard self-interactions, modelled by an effective one--particle force. The resulting…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Alexander Balakin , Roberto A. Sussman , Winfried Zimdahl

By means of analytical and numerical methods, we study how the residual three-dimensionality affects dynamics of solitons in an attractive Bose-Einstein condensate loaded into a cigar-shaped trap. Based on an effective 1D Gross-Pitaevskii…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Lev Khaykovich , Boris A. Malomed

Coupled nonlinear Schrodinger equations (CNLS) with an external elliptic function potential model a quasi one--dimensional interacting two-component Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a standing light wave. New families of stationary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 N. A. Kostov , V. Z. Enol'skii , V. S. Gerdjikov , V. V. Konotop , M. Salerno

We assume dark matter to be a cosmological self-gravitating Bose-Einstein condensate of non-relativistic ultralight scalar particles with competing gravitational and repulsive contact interactions and investigate the observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-19 V. Delgado , A. Muñoz Mateo

We theoretically demonstrate a mechanism for bright soliton generation in spinor non-equilibrium Bose-Einstein condensates made of atoms or quasiparticles such as polaritons in semiconductor microcavities. We give analytical expressions for…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-05-10 F. Pinsker , H. Flayac

This paper is devoted to consideration of the theory of collisionless statistical systems with interparticle scalar interaction. The mathematical model of such systems is constructed and the exact solution of Vlasov equation for isotropic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-27 Yu. G. Ignat'ev

Boson stars have attracted much attention in recent decades as simple, self-consistent models of compact objects and also as self-gravitating structures formed in some dark-matter scenarios. Direct detection of these hypothetical objects…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-09-20 Miguel Bezares , Mateja Bošković , Steven Liebling , Carlos Palenzuela , Paolo Pani , Enrico Barausse

Massive boson stars are self-gravitating configurations of self-interacting scalar fields and can be modeled by a massive scalar field with a quartic self-interaction potential. It has been shown that the equation of state and static…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-09 Swarnim Shirke , Bikram Keshari Pradhan , Debarati Chatterjee , Laura Sagunski , Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

Theoretical models of self-interacting dark matter represent a promising answer to a series of open problems within the so-called collisionless cold dark matter (CCDM) paradigm. In case of asymmetric dark matter, self-interactions might…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 Andrea Maselli , Pantelis Pnigouras , Niklas Gønlund Nielsen , Chris Kouvaris , Kostas D. Kokkotas

We discuss the dynamics of interacting atomic bright solitons and dark bubbles in bulk immiscible Bose-Einstein condensates. Coherent matter-wave clusters can be constructed using dark-bright pairs with appropriate phases. In two dimensions…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-06-02 Chenyun Yin , Natalia G. Berloff , Víctor M. Pérez-García , V. A. Brazhnyi , H. Michinel

Interactions of solitary waves in a cylindrically confined Bose-Einstein condensate are investigated by simulating their head-on collisions. Slow vortex rings and fast solitons are found to collide elastically contrary to the situation in…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Stavros Komineas , Joachim Brand

We use multiscale perturbation theory in conjunction with the inverse scattering transform to study the interaction of a number of solitons of the cubic nonlinear Schroedinger equation under the influence of a small correction to the…

patt-sol · Physics 2009-10-31 James A. Besley , Peter D. Miller , Nail N. Akhmediev

We investigate the effect of self-interactions on the shape and oscillations of the solitonic core profile of condensed fuzzy dark matter systems without the backdrop of a halo, revealing universal features in terms of an appropriately…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Milos Indjin , I-Kang Liu , Nick P. Proukakis , Gerasimos Rigopoulos

The interaction between two bright solitons in a dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) has been investigated aiming at finding the regimes when they form a stable bound state, known as soliton molecule. To study soliton interactions in BEC…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-09-30 B. B. Baizakov , S. M. Al-Marzoug , H. Bahlouli

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 construct and dynamically evolve dipolar, self-interacting scalar boson stars in a model with sextic (+ quartic) self-interactions. The domain of existence of such dipolar $Q$-stars has a similar structure to that of the fundamental…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-26 Pedro Ildefonso , Miguel Zilhão , Carlos Herdeiro , Eugen Radu , Nuno M. Santos

We construct boson star configurations in quantum field theory using the semiclassical gravity approximation. Restricting our attention to the static case, we show that the semiclassical Einstein-Klein-Gordon system for a {\it single real…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 Miguel Alcubierre , Juan Barranco , Argelia Bernal , Juan Carlos Degollado , Alberto Diez-Tejedor , Miguel Megevand , Darío Núñez , Olivier Sarbach