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We point out that pseudomoduli -- tree-level flat directions that often accompany dynamical supersymmetry breaking -- can be natural candidates for TeV-scale dark matter in models of gauge mediation. The idea is general and can be applied…

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We perform a numerical comparison between the fuzzy dark matter model and the cold dark matter model, focusing on formation of satellite galaxy planes around massive galaxies. Such galactic dynamics with controlled initial subhalo…

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The era of precision cosmology allows us to test the composition of the dark matter. Mixed ultralight or fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is a cosmological model with dark matter composed of a combination of particles of mass $m\leq…

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We provide Python tools enabling numerical simulation and analysis of the propagation dynamics of ultrashort laser pulses in nonlinear waveguides. The modeling approach is based on the widely used generalized nonlinear Schr\"odinger…

Computational Physics · Physics 2022-06-16 O. Melchert , A. Demircan

We present the first stable release of Halotools (v0.2), a community-driven Python package designed to build and test models of the galaxy-halo connection. Halotools provides a modular platform for creating mock universes of galaxies…

Ultralight dark matter is a hypothetical class of particle with a number of interesting theoretical and experimental properties, many of which are best understood by direct analogy with or application of undergraduate physics. We present a…

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State-of-the-art cosmological simulations on classical computers are limited by time, energy, and memory usage. Quantum computers can perform some calculations exponentially faster than classical computers, using exponentially less energy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Philip Mocz , Aaron Szasz

Recovering noise-covered details from low-light images is challenging, and the results given by previous methods leave room for improvement. Recent diffusion models show realistic and detailed image generation through a sequence of…

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We introduce FastPM, a highly-scalable approximated particle mesh N-body solver, which implements the particle mesh (PM) scheme enforcing correct linear displacement (1LPT) evolution via modified kick and drift factors. Employing a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-14 Yu Feng , Man-Yat Chu , Uros Seljak , Patrick McDonald

We compare the results of high-resolution simulations of individual dark matter subhalos evolving in external tidal fields with and without baryonic bulge and disk components, where the average dark matter particle mass is three orders of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-18 Jeremy J. Webb , Jo Bovy

Scattering interactions between dark matter and Standard Model states mediated by pseudoscalars are generically challenging to uncover at direct detection experiments due to rates suppressed by powers of the local dark matter velocity v ~…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-28 John Coffey , David McKeen , David E. Morrissey , Nirmal Raj

The evolution of substructure embedded in non-dissipative dark halos is studied through N-body simulations of isolated systems, both in and out of initial equilibrium, complementing cosmological simulations of the growth of structure. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bing Zhang , Rosemary F. G. Wyse , Massimo Stiavelli , Joseph Silk

We investigate the impact of ultralight dark matter (ULDM) on the mergers of supermassive black holes (SMBH) and the resulting stochastic gravitational wave background. ULDM is based on exceptionally light particles and yields galactic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-20 Shreyas Tiruvaskar , Russell Boey , Richard Easther , Chris Gordon

Dark matter halos with self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) experience a unique evolutionary phenomenon, in that their central regions eventually collapse to high density through the runaway gravothermal process after initially forming a…

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In the present work, we adopt a nonlinear scalar field theory coupled to the gravity sector to model galactic dark matter. We found analytical solutions for the scalar field coupled to gravity in the Newtonian limit, assuming an isotropic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-05-19 R. A. C. Correa , P. H. R. S. Moraes , A. de Souza Dutra , O. L. Dors , W. de Paula , T. Frederico

The pseudo-spectral method is proposed for following the evolution of density and velocity fluctuations at the weakly non-linear stage in the expanding universe with a good accuracy. In this method, the evolution of density and velocity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-01 Naoteru Gouda

The direct detection and characterization of planetary and substellar companions at small angular separations is a rapidly advancing field. Dedicated high-contrast imaging instruments deliver unprecedented sensitivity, enabling detailed…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-25 Tomas Stolker , Markus J. Bonse , Sascha P. Quanz , Adam Amara , Gabriele Cugno , Alexander J. Bohn , Anna Boehle

We introduce a tool that solves the Schr\"odinger-Euler-Poisson system of equations and allows the study of the interaction between ultralight bosonic dark matter, whose dynamics is described with the Schr\"odinger-Poisson system and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-12-09 Iván Alvarez-Ríos , Francisco S. Guzmán

We present a set of N-body simulations of a class of models in which an unstable dark matter particle decays into a stable non-interacting dark matter particle, with decay lifetime comparable to the Hubble time. We study the effects of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Mei-Yu Wang , Annika H. G. Peter , Louis E. Strigari , Andrew R. Zentner , Bryan Arant , Shea Garrison-Kimmel , Miguel Rocha

Growing Neutrino quintessence describes a form of dynamical dark energy that could explain why dark energy dominates the universe only in recent cosmological times. This scenario predicts the formation of large scale neutrino lumps which…

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