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We consider a quasi-one-dimensional two-component Bose-Einstein condensate subject to a coherent coupling between its components, such as realized in spin-orbit coupled condensates. We study how nonlinearity modifies the dynamics of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-04-20 T. Congy , A. Kamchatnov , N. Pavloff

We study Proca theory with non-minimal coupling to gravity through the Ricci tensor and Ricci scalar interactions. We show that in the homogeneous and isotropic Universe together with cosmological constant, the temporal component of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-27 Antonio De Felice , Anamaria Hell

It has recently been revealed that, in curved black-hole spacetimes, non-minimally coupled massive Proca fields may be characterized by the existence of poles in their linearized perturbation equations and may therefore develop…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-25 Shahar Hod

The stability of the recently proposed static solutions for boson stars is analyzed. These solutions of Einstein-Klein-Gordon (EKG) equations arise from considering the interaction of a real scalar field with matter. We assume that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-14 D. S. Fontanella , A. Cabo

This chapter provides a review of microscopic theories of pairing in nuclear systems and neutron stars. Special attention is given to the mean-field BCS theory and its extensions to include effects of polarization of the medium and…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-11-09 Armen Sedrakian , John W. Clark

Bosonic stars,hypothetical astrophysical entities, are generally categorized into two primary classes based on the nature of their constituent particles: Einstein Klein Gordon stars, made up of massive scalar bosons, and Proca stars, their…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-24 Jorge Castelo Mourelle , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , José A. Font

This paper presents a systematic study of the properties of non-rotating stellar models governed by the Euler-Poisson system under general equations of state, including the case of polytropic gaseous stars. We revisit and extend existence…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Hangsheng Chen

We investigate boson stars in an $O(3)$ scalar field theory with a symmetry-breaking potential. By constructing numerically spherically symmetric solutions, we demonstrate that the model gives rise to a rich set of field configurations. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Jutta Kunz , Aliaksei Mikhaliuk , Yakov Shnir

We study higher-dimensional soliton and hairy black hole solutions of the Einstein equations non-minimally coupled to a scalar field. The scalar field has no self-interaction potential but a cosmological constant is included. Non-trivial…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-06-12 Dominic Hosler , Elizabeth Winstanley

We consider again stationary solutions to the spherically symmetric Einstein--Maxwell--Klein--Gordon system, commonly known as ``charged boson stars'', originally studied by Jetzer and Van Der Bij. We construct families of charged boson…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-08 José Damián López , Miguel Alcubierre

A self-interacting SU(2)-doublet of complex scalar fields, minimally coupled to Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity is considered in five space-time dimensions. The classical equations admit two families of solitons corresponding to spinning and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-06-11 Yves Brihaye , Jürgen Riedel

We consider boson stars and black holes in scalar electrodynamics with a V-shaped scalar potential. The boson stars come in two types, having either ball-like or shell-like charge density. We analyze the properties of these solutions and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-22 Burkhard Kleihaus , Jutta Kunz , Claus Laemmerzahl , Meike List

We study nonnegative, measure-valued solutions to nonlinear drift type equations modelling concentration phenomena related to Bose-Einstein particles. In one spatial dimension, we prove existence and uniqueness for measure solutions.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-07-10 Jose' A. Carrillo , Marco Di Francesco , Giuseppe Toscani

We study static and spherically symmetric black hole (BH) solutions in second-order generalized Proca theories with nonminimal vector field derivative couplings to the Ricci scalar, the Einstein tensor, and the double dual Riemann tensor.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-30 Lavinia Heisenberg , Ryotaro Kase , Masato Minamitsuji , Shinji Tsujikawa

We study interactions of electro-magnetic fields with the curvature tensor of the form $\lambda R_{\mu \nu \alpha \beta}F^{\mu \nu}F^{\alpha \beta}$. Such coupling terms though are invariant under general coordinate transformation and CPT,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 A. R. Prasanna , Subhendra Mohanty

Observations of pulsar timing provide strong constraints on scalar-tensor theories of gravity, but these constraints are traditionally quoted as limits on the microscopic parameters (like the Brans-Dicke coupling, for example) that govern…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-28 M. W. Horbatsch , C. P. Burgess

Non-topological solitons such as Q-balls and Q-shells have been studied for scalar fields invariant under global and gauged U(1) symmetries. We generalize this framework to include a Proca mass for the gauge boson, which can arise either…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-15 Julian Heeck , Arvind Rajaraman , Rebecca Riley , Christopher B. Verhaaren

In this paper we study regular cosmic string solutions of the non-Abelian Higgs model coupled with the Einstein gravity. In order to do that, we constructed a set of coupled differential ordinary equation. Because there is no closed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-07-08 Antônio de Pádua Santos , Eugênio R. Bezerra de Mello

An exact time-dependent solution of field equations for the 3-d gauge field model with a Chern-Simons (CS) topological mass is found. Limiting cases of constant solution and solution with vanishing topological mass are considered. After…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 D. Ebert , V. Ch. Zhukovsky , M. V. Rogal

Models of neutron stars (NSs) with hyperon cores are constructed with an effective chiral model in mean-field approximation. The hyperon couplings are fixed by reproducing their experimentally determined binding energies. The impact of…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-01-31 Debashree Sen , Kinjal Banerjee , T. K. Jha