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We assume dark matter to be a cosmological self-gravitating Bose-Einstein condensate of non-relativistic ultralight scalar particles with competing gravitational and repulsive contact interactions and investigate the observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-19 V. Delgado , A. Muñoz Mateo

There has been considerable interest in the last several years in support of the idea that galaxies and clusters could have highly condensed cores of dark matter (DM) within their central regions. In particular, it has been suggested that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-13 Wen-Jian Chung , Lorne Nelson

It has been postulated that Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) could be a viable alternative to Cold Dark Matter (CDM). FDM is comprised of ultralight bosons which exist as a Bose-Einstein condensate. Due to the very low mass of FDM, the de Broglie…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-28 V. Sreenath

Analytic arguments and numerical simulations show that bosonic ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) would form cored density distributions (`solitons') at the center of galaxies. ULDM solitons offer a promising way to exclude or detect ULDM by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-06-05 Nitsan Bar , Kfir Blum , Joshua Eby , Ryosuke Sato

The superfluid dark matter model offers an elegant solution to reconcile discrepancies between the predictions of the cold dark matter paradigm and observations on galactic scales. In this scenario, dark matter is composed of ultralight…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 Lasha Berezhiani , Giordano Cintia , Valerio De Luca , Justin Khoury

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 investigate the dynamics of two miscible superfluids experiencing fast counterflow in a narrow channel. The superfluids are formed by two distinguishable components of a trapped dilute-gas Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). The onset of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-11-10 M. A. Hoefer , J. J. Chang , C. Hamner , P. Engels

Dark-matter-dominated dwarf galaxies provide an excellent laboratory for testing dark matter models at small scale and, in particular, the ultralight dark matter (ULDM) class of models. Within the framework of self-interacting bosonic dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-02 K. Korshynska , E. V. Gorbar , Y. M. Bidasyuk , A. I. Yakimenko , Y. Revaz

The nature of dark matter remains one of the most profound mysteries in modern physics. In this work, we investigate the phenomenological implications of ultralight scalar dark matter (ULDM) coupled to neutrinos. We focus on a large…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-23 Luis A. Delgadillo , O. G. Miranda , Hiroshi Nunokawa

Ultralight dark matter (ULDM) is one of the leading well-motivated dark matter candidates, predicted in many theories beyond the standard model of particle physics and cosmology. There have been increasing interests in searching for ULDM in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-11 Jiang-Chuan Yu , Yan Cao , Yong Tang , Yue-Liang Wu

The scalar field dark matter (SFDM) model proposes that galaxies form by condensation of a scalar field (SF) very early in the universe forming Bose-Einstein Condensates (BEC) drops, i.e., in this model haloes of galaxies are gigantic drops…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-26 Victor H. Robles , Tonatiuh Matos

Bosonic ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) would form cored density distributions at the center of galaxies. These cores, seen in numerical simulations, admit analytic description as the lowest energy bound state solution ("soliton") of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-30 Nitsan Bar , Diego Blas , Kfir Blum , Sergey Sibiryakov

We propose a unified framework that reconciles the stunning success of MOND on galactic scales with the triumph of the LambdaCDM model on cosmological scales. This is achieved through the physics of superfluidity. Dark matter consists of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Lasha Berezhiani , Justin Khoury

We present a theoretical analysis of some unexplored aspects of relaxed Bose-Einstein condensate dark matter (BECDM) haloes. This type of ultralight bosonic scalar field dark matter is a viable alternative to the standard cold dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 Philip Mocz , Mark Vogelsberger , Victor Robles , Jesus Zavala , Michael Boylan-Kolchin , Anastasia Fialkov , Lars Hernquist

The detection of High Energy Cosmic Rays (HECR) with energies around and beyond GZK expected cutoff has introduced the idea of existence of a decaying Ultra Heavy Dark Matter (UHDM). If this type of particles make a substantial part of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Houri Ziaeepour

We derive the characteristic scales for physical quantities of dwarf galaxies, such as mass, size, acceleration, and angular momentum, within the self-interacting ultralight dark matter (ULDM) model. Due to the small mass of ULDM, even…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-09-23 Jae-Weon Lee , Chueng-Ryong Ji

Recent studies suggest that dark matter could take the form of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), a possibility motivated by anomalies in galactic rotation curves and the missing mass problem in galaxy clusters. We investigate the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-01 Francisco S. N. Lobo , Tiberiu Harko

The conventional cold, particle interpretation of dark matter (CDM) still lacks laboratory support and struggles with the basic properties of common dwarf galaxies, which have surprisingly uniform central masses and shallow density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-06-26 Hsi-Yu Schive , Tzihong Chiueh , Tom Broadhurst

The possibility that dark matter may be in the form of a Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) has been extensively explored at galactic scale. In particular, good fits for the galactic rotations curves have been obtained, and upper limits for the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-11-17 Tiberiu Harko , Pengxiang Liang , Shi-Dong Liang , Gabriela Mocanu

The Lambda-Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) model agrees with most of the cosmological observations, but has some hindrances from observed data at smaller scales such as galaxies. Recently, Berezhiani and Khoury (2015) proposed a new theory…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-22 Shreya Banerjee , Sayantani Bera , David F. Mota