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Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) represents an alternative and intriguing description of the standard Cold Dark Matter (CDM) fluid, able to explain the lack of direct detection of dark matter particles in the GeV sector and to alleviate small scales…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-30 Matteo Nori , Riccardo Murgia , Vid Iršič , Marco Baldi , Matteo Viel

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) has recently gained attention as a motivated candidate for the dark matter (DM) content of the Universe, as opposed to the commonly assumed cold DM (CDM), since the soliton profile intrinsic to FDM models was found…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-01 Tatyana Shevchuk , Ely D. Kovetz , Adi Zitrin

We present an in-depth exploration of the phenomenon of dynamical friction in a universe where the dark matter is composed entirely of so-called Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM), ultralight bosons of mass $m\sim\mathcal{O}(10^{-22})\,$eV. We review…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Lachlan Lancaster , Cara Giovanetti , Philip Mocz , Yonatan Kahn , Mariangela Lisanti , David N. Spergel

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM), a scalar particle coupled to the gravitational field without self-interaction whose mass range is $m \sim 10^{-24} - 10^{-20}\ \rm{eV}$, is one of the promising alternative dark matter candidates to cold dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-02 Hiroki Kawai , Masamune Oguri , Alfred Amruth , Tom Broadhurst , Jeremy Lim

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fuzzy (wave) dark matter (FDM), the dynamical model underlying an ultralight bosonic dark matter species, produces a rich set of non-gravitational signatures that distinguishes it markedly from the phenomenologically related warm (particle)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Tim Zimmermann , David J. E. Marsh , Keir K. Rogers , Hans A. Winther , Sijing Shen

Potential small-scale discrepancies in the picture of galaxy formation painted by the $\Lambda$CDM paradigm have led to considerations of modified dark matter models. One such dark matter model that has recently attracted much attention is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-08 Olof Nebrin , Raghunath Ghara , Garrelt Mellema

The dark energy dominated warm dark matter (WDM) model is a promising alternative cosmological scenario. We explore large-scale structure formation in this paradigm. We do this in two different ways: with the halo model approach and with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Aurel Schneider , Robert E. Smith , Andrea V. Maccio , Ben Moore

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is a promising candidate for dark matter, characterized by its ultra-light mass, which gives rise to wave effects at astrophysical scales. These effects offer potential solutions to the small-scale issues encountered…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-30 Hamed Manouchehri Kousha , Mohammad Ansarifard , Aliakbar Abolhasani

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is composed of ultra-light bosons having a de Broglie wavelength that is comparable to the size of the stellar component of galaxies at typical galactic velocities. FDM behaves like cold dark matter on large scales.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-07 Ben Bar-Or , Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Scott Tremaine

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

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) comprised of ultralight ($m \sim 10^{-22}~\rm{eV}$) boson particles has received significant attention as a viable alternative to Cold Dark Matter (CDM), as it approximates CDM on large scales ($\gtrsim 1$ Mpc) while…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-28 Connor A. Painter , Michael Boylan-Kolchin , Philip Mocz , Mark Vogelsberger

The standard cold dark matter (CDM) model predicts too many and too dense small structures. We consider an alternative model that the dark matter undergoes two-body decays with cosmological lifetime $\tau$ into only one type of massive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 Dalong Cheng , M. -C. Chu , Jiayu Tang

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

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