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The axion-like particles with ultralight mass ($\sim10^{-22}$eV) can be a possible candidate of dark matter, known as the fuzzy dark matter (FDM). These particles form Bose-Einstein condensate in the early Universe which can explain the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-14 Shreyansh S. Dave , Sanatan Digal

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM), a practical alternative to cold dark matter, can exist in compact stars. Here, applying the FDM equation of state (EoS) constrained by CMB and large-scale structure data, we calculate the structure of relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 Zeinab Rezaei

We discuss novel ways in which neutrino oscillation experiments can probe dark matter. In particular, we focus on interactions between neutrinos and ultra-light ("fuzzy") dark matter particles with masses of order $10^{-22}$ eV. It has been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-05 Vedran Brdar , Joachim Kopp , Jia Liu , Pascal Prass , Xiao-Ping Wang

Cold dark matter (CDM) models predict small-scale structure in excess of observations of the cores and abundance of dwarf galaxies. These problems might be solved, and the virtues of CDM models retained, even without postulating {\it ad…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Wayne Hu , Rennan Barkana , Andrei Gruzinov

Ultra-light scalar fields and their non-interacting class, the so-called fuzzy dark matter (FDM), are candidates for dark matter, introduced to solve the small-scale problems of the standard cold dark matter. In this paper, we address…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-24 Hamed Manouchehri Kousha , Sina Hooshangi , Aliakbar Abolhasani

We study cosmological structure formation with ultralight axion dark matter, or "fuzzy dark matter (FDM), using a particle-mesh scheme to account for the quantum pressure arising in the Madelung formulation of the Schr\"odinger-Poisson…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-03 Jan Veltmaat , Jens C. Niemeyer

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) is one of the recent models for dark matter. According to this model, dark matter is made of very light scalar particles with considerable quantum mechanical effects on the galactic scale, which solves many problems…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-13 Alireza Maleki , Shant Baghram , Sohrab Rahvar

The Ultra-Light Axion (ULA) is a dark matter candidate with mass $\mathcal{O}(10^{-22})$eV and de Broglie wavelength of order kpc. Such an axion, also called the Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM), thermalizes via the gravitational force and forms a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-30 Jiajun Zhang , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Jui-Lin Kuo , Kingman Cheung , Ming-Chung Chu

We present an overview of scenarios where the observed Dark Matter (DM) abundance consists of Feebly Interacting Massive Particles (FIMPs), produced non-thermally by the so-called freeze-in mechanism. In contrast to the usual freeze-out…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-22 Nicolás Bernal , Matti Heikinheimo , Tommi Tenkanen , Kimmo Tuominen , Ville Vaskonen

We present a new implementation of fuzzy dark matter (FDM) dynamical friction within the galpy framework, enabling orbital integrations of globular clusters (GCs) across a broad range of halo-to-GC mass ratios and boson masses. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-08 Adrian Szpilfidel , Pierre Boldrini , Jo Bovy , Paola Di Matteo

The cold dark matter (CDM) scenario has proved successful in cosmology. However, we lack a fundamental understanding of its microscopic nature. Moreover, the apparent disagreement between CDM predictions and subgalactic-structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-29 J. A. R. Cembranos , A. L. Maroto , S. J. Núñez Jareño , H. Villarrubia-Rojo

In the fuzzy dark matter (FDM) model, dark matter is composed of ultra-light particles with a de Broglie wavelength of $\sim$kpc, above which it behaves like cold dark matter (CDM). Due to this, FDM suppresses the growth of structure on…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-01 Debanjan Sarkar , Jordan Flitter , Ely D. Kovetz

Using a single gravitational lens system observed at $\lesssim5$ milli-arcsecond resolution with very long baseline interferometry (VLBI), we place a lower bound on the mass of the fuzzy dark matter (FDM) particle, ruling out $m_\chi \leq…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Devon M. Powell , Simona Vegetti , J. P. McKean , Simon D. M. White , Elisa G. M. Ferreira , Simon May , Cristiana Spingola

If a significant fraction of the dark matter in the Universe is made of an ultra-light scalar field, named fuzzy dark matter (FDM) with a mass $m_a$ of the order of $10^{-22}-10^{-21}$ eV, then its de Broglie wavelength is large enough to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-22 Eric Armengaud , Nathalie Palanque-Delabrouille , Christophe Yèche , David J. E. Marsh , Julien Baur

We propose a new dark matter contender within the context of the so-called ``dark dimension'', an innovative 5-dimensional construct that has a compact space with characteristic length-scale in the micron range. The new dark matter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-19 Luis A. Anchordoqui , Ignatios Antoniadis , Dieter Lust

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM), an attractive dark matter candidate comprising ultralight bosons (axions) with a particle mass $m_a\sim10^{-22}$ eV, is motivated by the small-scale challenges of cold dark matter and features a kpc-size de Broglie…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-30 Hsun-Yeong Yang , Barry T. Chiang , Guan-Ming Su , Hsi-Yu Schive , Tzihong Chiueh , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

We investigate the freeze-in of MeV-scale fermionic dark matter (DM) that couples to the Standard Model via a new vector mediator to assess the potential that future direct detection experiments have to observe new physics in either the DM…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-28 David Cerdeño , Patrick Foldenauer , Rafael López Noé , Óscar Zapata

Recent observations have uncovered a remarkably flat and extremely diffuse stellar distribution within the almost dark dwarf galaxy Nube, posing a challenge to the standard cold dark matter scenario. In this study, we employ numerical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-07 Yu-Ming Yang , Zhao-Chen Zhang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin

Whereas cold dark matter (CDM) simulations predict central dark matter cusps with densities that diverge as $\rho$(r)$\sim$ 1/r observations often indicate constant density cores with finite central densities $\rho_0$ and a flat density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-09 Andreas Burkert

The Phenomenologically Emergent Dark Energy model, a dark energy model with the same number of free parameters as the flat $\Lambda$CDM, has been proposed as a working example of a minimal model which can avoid the current cosmological…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-15 Weiqiang Yang , Eleonora Di Valentino , Supriya Pan , Olga Mena