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We present PyWolf, an open-source software capable of performing numerical simulations of partially coherent light propagation from two-dimensional light sources. PyWolf computes the evolution of a user-defined cross-spectral density…

Optics · Physics 2022-04-06 Tiago E. C. Magalhães , José M. Rebordão

The generalized Schr\"odinger-Newton system of equations with both local and nonlocal nonlinearities is widely used to describe light propagating in nonlinear media under the paraxial approximation. However, its use is not limited to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-12 Tiago D. Ferreira , Nuno A. Silva , O. Bertolami , C. Gomes , A. Guerreiro

We simulate the gravitational dynamics of a massive object interacting with Ultralight / Fuzzy Dark Matter (ULDM/FDM), non-relativistic quantum matter described by the Schrodinger-Poisson equation. We first consider a point mass moving in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-06 Yourong Wang , Richard Easther

pyGDM is a python toolkit for electro-dynamical simulations in nano-optics based on the Green Dyadic Method (GDM). In contrast to most other coupled-dipole codes, pyGDM uses a generalized propagator, which allows to cost-efficiently solve…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-01-28 Peter R. Wiecha

The distinctive effects of fuzzy dark matter are most visible at non-linear galactic scales. We present the first simulations of mixed fuzzy and cold dark matter, obtained with an extended version of the Nyx code. Fuzzy (or ultralight, or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Bodo Schwabe , Mateja Gosenca , Christoph Behrens , Jens C. Niemeyer , Richard Easther

We introduce a modification of the PyUltraLight code that models the dynamical evolution of ultralight axionlike scalar dark matter fields. Our modified code, PySiUltraLight, adds a quartic, self-interaction term to reflect the one which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 Noah Glennon , Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

UltraDark.jl is a Julia package for the simulation of cosmological scalar fields. Scalar fields are proposed solutions to two of the fundamental questions in cosmology: the nature of dark matter and the universe's initial conditions.…

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We have developed a simple yet surprisingly accurate analytic scheme for tracking the dynamical evolution of substructure within larger dark halos. The scheme incorporates the effects of dynamical friction, tidal mass loss and tidal heating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. E. Taylor , Arif Babul

Ultralight dark matter (ULDM) is usually taken to be a single scalar field. Here we explore the possibility that ULDM consists of $N$ light scalar fields with only gravitational interactions. This configuration is more consistent with the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 Mateja Gosenca , Andrew Eberhardt , Yourong Wang , Benedikt Eggemeier , Emily Kendall , J. Luna Zagorac , Richard Easther

AI super-resolution, combining deep learning and N-body simulations has been shown to successfully reproduce the large scale structure and halo abundances in the Lambda Cold Dark Matter cosmological model. Here, we extend its use to models…

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A solution to the dark matter problem is set forth in the framework of reductive semiclassical gravity, i.e., semiclassical gravity involving quantum state reduction. In that theory, the Einstein equation includes the energy-momentum tensor…

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The cold dark matter model successfully describes the Universe on large scales, yet faces challenges at sub-galactic scales. Ultralight dark matter (ULDM), with particle masses around $10^{-22} \mathrm{eV}$, offers a promising solution to…

Ultralight (or fuzzy) dark matter (ULDM) is an alternative to cold dark matter. A key feature of ULDM is the presence of solitonic cores at the centers of collapsed halos. These would potentially increase the drag experienced by…

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pyGDM is a python toolkit for electro-dynamical simulations of individual nano-structures, based on the Green Dyadic Method (GDM). pyGDM uses the concept of a generalized propagator, which allows to solve cost-efficiently monochromatic…

There are a number of different phenomena in the early universe that have to be studied numerically with lattice simulations. This paper presents a graphics processing unit (GPU) accelerated Python program called PyCOOL that solves the…

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Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy is a well-developed field with theoretical and experimental advances that have aided multiple fields including chemistry, biology and physics. However, accurate quantum dynamical simulations based on model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 S. A. Shah , Hao Li , Eric R. Bittner , Carlos Silva , Andrei Piryatinski

There is ample evidence from rotation curves that dark matter halos around disk galaxies have nontrivial dynamics. Of particular significance are: a) the cored dark matter profile of disk galaxies, b) correlations of the shape of rotation…

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PyLlama is a handy Python toolkit to compute the electromagnetic reflection and transmission properties of arbitrary multilayered linear media, including the case of anisotropy. Relying on a $4 \times 4$-matrix formalism, PyLlama implements…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-24 Mélanie M. Bay , Silvia Vignolini , Kevin Vynck

Research into the processes of photoionised nebulae plays a significant part in our understanding of stellar evolution. It is extremely difficult to visually represent or model ionised nebula, requiring astronomers to employ sophisticated…

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