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Boson stars are hypothetical compact objects derived from solutions of a self-gravitating complex scalar field. In this study, we extend the traditional models by generalizing the kinetic term of the scalar field to that of a nonlinear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-02 Christoph Adam , Jorge Castelo Mourelle , Alberto García Martín-Caro , Andrzej Wereszczynski

We investigate spherically symmetric non topological solitons in electrodynamics with a scalar field self interaction U ~|\psi| taken from the complex signum-Gordon model. We find Q-balls for small absolute values of the total electric…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-02-20 H. Arodź , J. Lis

We investigate the properties of interacting Q-balls and boson stars that sit on top of each other in great detail. The model that describes these solutions is essentially a (gravitating) two-scalar field model where both scalar fields are…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-09-25 Yves Brihaye , Thierry Caebergs , Betti Hartmann , Momchil Minkov

We study angularly excited as well as interacting non-topological solitons, so-called Q-balls and their gravitating counterparts, so-called boson stars in 3+1 dimensions. Q-balls and boson stars carry a non-vanishing Noether charge and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-15 Yves Brihaye , Betti Hartmann

Scalar field theories with particular U(1)-symmetric potentials contain non-topological soliton solutions called Q-balls. Promoting the U(1) to a gauge symmetry leads to the more complicated situation of gauged Q-balls. The soliton…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-06-14 Julian Heeck , Arvind Rajaraman , Rebecca Riley , Christopher B. Verhaaren

Non-topological gauged soliton solutions called Q-balls arise in many scalar field theories that are invariant under a U(1) gauge symmetry. The related, but qualitatively distinct, Q-shell solitons have only been shown to exist for special…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-09-15 Julian Heeck , Arvind Rajaraman , Christopher B. Verhaaren

We find new spherically symmetric charged boson star solutions of a complex scalar field coupled non-minimally to gravity by a "John-type" term of Horndeski theory, that is a coupling between the kinetic scalar term and Einstein tensor. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-03-07 Y. Verbin , Y. Brihaye

The properties of several types of Q-stars are studied and compared with their flat space analogues, i.e. Q-balls. The analysis is based on calculating the mass, global U(1) charge and binding energy for families of solutions parametrized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-11-15 Y. Verbin

We study a multicomponent $CP^N$ model's scalar electrodynamics. The model contains $Q$-balls and $Q$-shells, which are nontopological compact solitons with time dependency $e^{i\omega t}$. Two coupled $CP^N$ models can decouple locally if…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-12-25 P. Klimas , L. C. Kubaski , N. Sawado , S. Yanai

We reveal the existence of a new form of spontaneously scalarized black-hole configurations. In particular, it is proved that Reissner-Nordstr\"om black holes in the highly charged regime $Q/M>(Q/M)_{\text{crit}}=\sqrt{21}/5$ can support…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-02-23 Shahar Hod

We construct supersymmetric Q-balls and boson stars in (d+1) dimensions. These non-topological solitons are solutions of a scalar field model with global U(1) symmetry and a scalar field potential that appears in gauge-mediated…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2013-05-30 Betti Hartmann , Juergen Riedel

Within the framework of the extended teleparallel gravity, a new class of boson stars has recently been constructed by introducing the nonminimal coupling of the scalar field to the torsion scalar. An interesting feature of these static,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-08-31 Dubravko Horvat , Sasa Ilijic , Anamarija Kirin , Zoran Narancic

Q-balls are large bound-state systems of scalar particles, described classically through localized solutions of the equations of motion. Promoting the required stabilizing $U(1)$ symmetry to a gauge symmetry leads to gauged Q-balls, which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-10 Julian Heeck , Yu Zhi

In this work we deal with non-topological solutions of the Q-ball type in two space-time dimensions, in models described by a single complex scalar field that engenders global symmetry. The main novelty is the presence of stable Q-balls…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-05-24 D. Bazeia , L. Losano , M. A. Marques , R. Menezes , R. da Rocha

We discuss Q-balls in the complex signum-Gordon model in d-dimensional space for d=1,2,3. The Q-balls have strictly finite radius. Their total energy is a power-like function of the conserved U(1) charge with the exponent equal to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 H. Arodź , J. Lis

This study investigates the behavior of charged compact stars within the $f(\mathfrak{Q}, \mathcal{T})$ gravitational framework, where $\mathfrak{Q}$ denotes the non-metricity scalar and $\mathcal{T}$ represents the trace of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-07 M. Sharif , Iqra Ibrar

A noncommutative version of the usual electro-weak theory is constructed. We discuss how to overcome the two major problems: 1) although we can have noncommutative U(n) (which we denote by $U_{\star}(n)$) gauge theory we cannot have…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-05-28 M. Chaichian , P. Presnajder , M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari , A. Tureanu

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

We discuss the $U(1)$ gauged Q-balls with $N$-power potential to examine their properties analytically. More numerical descriptions and some analytical consideration have been contributed to the models governed by four-power potential. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-02-12 Yue Zhong , Lingshen Chen , Hongbo Cheng

We study non-topological solitons, so called Q-balls, which carry a non-vanishing Noether charge and arise as lump solutions of self-interacting complex scalar field models. Explicit examples of new axially symmetric non-spinning Q-ball…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-11-18 Yves Brihaye , Betti Hartmann