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This paper investigates the feasibility of simulating Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) with a reduced number of spatial dimensions. Our aim is to set up a realistic, yet numerically inexpensive, toy model in $(1+1)$-dimensional space time, that -…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Tim Zimmermann , Nico Schwersenz , Massimo Pietroni , Sandro Wimberger

We investigate phenomenologically the viability of fuzzy dark matter (FDM). We do this by confronting the predictions of the model, in particular, the formation of a solitonic core at the center of dark matter halos, with a homogeneous and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-15 Andrés Bañares-Hernández , Andrés Castillo , Jorge Martin Camalich , Giuliano Iorio

An intriguing alternative to cold dark matter (CDM) is that the dark matter is a light ( $m \sim 10^{-22}$ eV) boson having a de Broglie wavelength $\lambda \sim 1$ kpc, often called fuzzy dark matter (FDM). We describe the arguments from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Lam Hui , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Scott Tremaine , Edward Witten

Dark matter may be composed of ultra-light bosons whose de Broglie wavelength in galaxies is of order 1 kpc. The standard model for this fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is a complex scalar field that obeys the Schr\"odinger-Poisson equations. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-23 Boris Zupancic , Lawrence M. Widrow

We propose a simple mechanism of light dark matter (DM) production from the decay of the oscillating inflaton condensation. If the reheating temperature after inflation is higher than the inflaton mass, which is of the same order of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-21 Takeo Moroi , Wen Yin

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) made of ultra-light bosonic particles is a viable alternative to cold dark matter (CDM) with clearly distinguishable small-scale features in collapsed structures. On large scales, it behaves gravitationally like CDM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-11 Bodo Schwabe , Jens C. Niemeyer

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM), consisting of ultralight bosons, is an intriguing alternative to Cold Dark Matter. Numerical simulations solving the Schr\"odinger-Poisson (SP) equation, which governs FDM dynamics, show that FDM halos consist of a…

In fuzzy dark matter (FDM) cosmologies, the dark matter consists of ultralight bosons ($m\lesssim10^{-20}$ eV). The astrophysically large de Broglie wavelengths of such particles hinder the formation of low-mass dark matter halos. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-20 Jackson Sipple , Adam Lidz , Daniel Grin , Guochao Sun

We explore the imprints of fuzzy dark matter (FDM) on the redshifted 21~cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization by employing the wavelet scattering transform (WST). FDM, composed of ultralight scalar particles with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 Hayato Shimabukuro , Shihang Liu , Bohua Li

Gravitational dark matter (DM) is the simplest possible scenario that has recently gained interest in the early universe cosmology. In this scenario, DM is assumed to be produced from the decaying inflaton through the gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-11 Md Riajul Haque , Debaprasad Maity

We present a novel method to constrain the mass of ultra-light bosons as the dark matter using stellar streams formed by disrupting Globular Clusters in the Milky Way. The turbulent density field of Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) haloes results in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-03 Nicola C. Amorisco , A. Loeb

We consider an alternative cold dark matter candidate, ultralight bosons ($m>10^{-22}$eV) described by a complex scalar field (SFDM) with global U(1) symmetry, with comoving particle number density conserved after particle production during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-13 Bohua Li , Paul R. Shapiro , Tanja Rindler-Daller

The tightening of the constraints on the standard thermal WIMP scenario has forced physicists to propose alternative dark matter (DM) models. One of the most popular alternate explanations of the origin of DM is the non-thermal production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-27 Anirban Biswas , Sandhya Choubey , Sarif Khan

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is a compelling candidate for dark matter, offering a natural explanation for the structure of diffuse low-mass haloes. However, the canonical FDM model with a mass of $10^{-22}~{\rm eV}$ encounters challenges in…

The nature of dark matter remains a central question in cosmology, with fuzzy dark matter (FDM) models offering a compelling alternative to the cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm. We explore FDM scenarios by performing 21-cm simulations across…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Bahareh Soleimanpour Salmasi , S. Mobina Hosseini

Dark matter (DM) could be a relic of freeze-in through a light mediator, where the DM is produced by extremely feeble, IR-dominated processes in the thermal Standard Model plasma. In the simplest viable models with the DM mass below the MeV…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-15 Cora Dvorkin , Tongyan Lin , Katelin Schutz

The 21-cm signals from Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization contain valuable information on cosmological structure formation dominated by dark matter. Measurements of the 21-cm power spectrum can thus probe certain dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-15 Shihang Liu , Yilin Liu , Bowen Peng , Mengzhou Xie , Zelong Liu , Bohua Li , Yi Mao

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM), composed of ultralight bosons, exhibits intricate wave phenomena on galactic scales. Compared to cold dark matter, FDM simulations are significantly more computationally demanding due to the need to resolve the de…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Hsi-Yu Schive

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is a proposed modification for the standard cold dark matter (CDM) model motivated by small-scale discrepancies in low-mass galaxies. Composed of ultra-light (mass $\sim 10^{-22}$ eV) axions with kpc-scale de Broglie…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-21 Mihir Kulkarni , Eli Visbal , Greg L. Bryan , Xinyu Li

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) with mass around $10^{-22}$ eV is viewed as a promising paradigm in understanding the structure formation of the local universe at small scales. Recent observations, however, begin to challenge FDM in return. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-28 Shiyun Lu , Amara Ilyas , Xiao-Han Ma , Bo Wang , Dongdong Zhang , Yi-Fu Cai