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While ultra-light bosonic dark matter (ULDM) in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) state could naturally account for the central core in some galaxies and resolve the core-cusp problem, the dark matter density distribution in the outer…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-16 Tian-yao Fang , Ming-Chung Chu

Ultra-light bosonic dark matter (ULDM) is an interesting and promising dark matter candidate. While the wave-like nature of ULDM has been widely studied in the literature, we explore another distinctive feature of ULDM as Bose-Einstein…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-04 Rongzi Zhou , Dylan M. H. Leung , Jason S. C. Poon , Ming-Chung Chu

We examine the viability of cosmological solution(s) describing a unified picture of the dark side of the universe from a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) of light bosons. The energy density of the BEC, together with its quantum potential,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-29 Saurya Das , Sourav Sur

Spherical collapse of the Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) dark matter model is studied in the Thomas Fermi approximation. The evolution of the overdensity of the collapsed region and its expansion rate are calculated for two scenarios. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-11 Rodolfo C. de Freitas , Hermano Velten

We study magnetic field effects on the Equations of State (EoS) and the structure of Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) stars, i.e. a compact object composed by a gas of interacting spin one bosons formed up by the pairing of two neutrons. To…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-04 G. Quintero Angulo , A. Pérez Martínez , H. Pérez Rojas , D. Manreza Paret

This paper investigates the interplay between the geometric and topological properties of spherically symmetric black hole metrics within Einstein gravity, emphasizing implications for Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC). By analyzing metric…

General Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Wen-Xiang Chen

The problem of understanding how a coherent, macroscopic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) emerges from the cooling of a thermal Bose gas has attracted significant theoretical and experimental interest over several decades. The pioneering…

The aim of the present review is to introduce the reader to some of the physical notions and of the mathematical methods that are relevant to the study of nonlinear waves in Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs). Upon introducing the general…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-12-10 R. Carretero-Gonzalez , D. J. Frantzeskakis , P. G. Kevrekidis

We study the characteristic length scale of galactic halos in the Bose-Einstein condensate (or scalar field) dark matter model. Considering the evolution of the density perturbation we show that the average background matter density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-17 Jae-Weon Lee

We study the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) for a relativistic ideal gas of bosons. In the framework of canonical thermal field theory, we analyze the role of particles and anti-particles in the determination of BEC transition…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-11-11 Luca Salasnich

Because of their superfluid properties, some compact astrophysical objects such as neutron stars may contain a significant part of their matter in the form of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). We consider a partially-relativistic model of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-12 Pierre-Henri Chavanis

As an atomic Bose Einstein condensate (BEC) is coupled to a source of uncondensed atoms at the same temperature and to a sink (extraction towards an atom laser) the idealized description in terms of a Gross-Pitaevsky equation (GP) no longer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 F. T. Arecchi , J. Bragard , L. M. Castellano

Axions differ from ordinary cold dark matter, such as WIMPs or sterile neutrinos, because they form a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). As a result, axions accreting onto a galactic halo fall in with net overall rotation. In contrast,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Pierre Sikivie

We completed the development of simulation code that is designed to study the behavior of a conjectured dark matter galactic halo that is in the form of a Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC). The BEC is described by the Gross-Pitaevskii…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-02-19 Eniko J. M. Madarassy , Viktor T. Toth

The dynamical behavior of Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) in a gas with attractive interactions is striking. Quantum theory predicts that BEC of a spatially homogeneous gas with attractive interactions is precluded by a conventional phase…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Jordan M. Gerton , Dmitry Strekalov , Ionut Prodan , Randall G. Hulet

Dark matter consisting of a Bose--Einstein condensate (BEC) of ultra-light particles is predicted to have a soliton shape that shifts with the dark matter mass fraction in galaxies containing a centrally localized point mass (or black…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-21 Dor Ben-Amotz

Constraints on the cosmic history of self-interacting Bose-Einstein condensed (SIBEC) dark matter (DM) are obtained using the cosmic microwave background (CMB), baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO), growth factor measurements, and type Ia…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-09 S. T. H. Hartman , H. A. Winther , D. F. Mota

Once the temperature of a bosonic gas is smaller than the critical, density dependent, transition temperature, a Bose - Einstein Condensation process can take place during the cosmological evolution of the Universe. Bose - Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-04 Tiberiu Harko , Gabriela Mocanu

When particles with integer spin accumulate at low temperature and high density they undergo Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC). Atoms, solid-state excitons and excitons coupled to light all exhibit BEC, which results in high coherence due to…

Bose-Einstein condensation is a remarkable manifestation of quantum statistics and macroscopic quantum coherence. Superconductivity and superfluidity have their origin in Bose-Einstein condensation. Ultracold quantum gases have provided…