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We investigate the structure of dynamics of large self-gravitating astrophysical systems using a self-interacting two-component model. We consider two cases, galaxy clusters and cosmic walls, for illustrations. In both cases stability…

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We study the evolution of cosmological perturbations in dark-matter models with elastic and velocity-independent self interactions. Such interactions are imprinted in the matter-power spectrum as dark acoustic oscillations, which can be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-24 Daniel Egana-Ugrinovic , Rouven Essig , Daniel Gift , Marilena LoVerde

We propose an experiment to search for ultralight scalar dark matter (DM) with dilatonic interactions. Such couplings can arise for the dilaton as well as for moduli and axion-like particles in the presence of CP violation. Ultralight…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-03 Asimina Arvanitaki , Junwu Huang , Ken Van Tilburg

Pairs of misalignment-produced axions with nearby masses can experience a nonlinear resonance that leads to enhanced direct and astrophysical signatures of axion dark matter. In much of the relevant parameter space, self-interactions cause…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-20 David Cyncynates , Olivier Simon , Jedidiah O. Thompson , Zachary J. Weiner

The effects of long-range intermolecular interactions on characteristic features of soliton bound states, consisting of localized excitons and polaritons in molecular crystals interacting with a high-intensity optical field, are…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-17 E. Nji Nde Aboringong , Alain M. Dikandé

Scalar fields can give rise to confined structures, such as boson stars or Q-balls. These objects are interesting hypothetical new "dark matter stars," but also good descriptions of dark matter haloes when the fields are ultralight. Here,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-30 Lorenzo Annulli , Vitor Cardoso , Rodrigo Vicente

This work studies the formation and growth of boson stars and their surrounding miniclusters by gravitational condensation using non-linear dynamical numerical methods. Fully dynamical attractive and repulsive self-interactions are also…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-27 Jiajun Chen , Xiaolong Du , Erik W. Lentz , David J. E. Marsh , Jens C. Niemeyer

We investigate cosmological structure formation in Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) with an attractive self-interaction (SI) with numerical simulations. Such a SI would arise if the FDM boson were an ultra-light axion, which has a strong CP…

We derive the equations governing the motion of Kerr solitons in pair waveforms. Recent experiments in microresonators have studied a variety of interaction effects in multisoliton waveforms, including collisions and formation of soliton…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2025-07-11 Amir Leshem , Sanzida Akter , Logan Courtright , Pradyoth Shandilya , Curtis R. Menyuk , Omri Gat

Self-gravitating bosonic fields can support stable and localised field configurations. For real fields, these solutions oscillate in time and are known as oscillatons. The density profile is static, and is soliton. Such solitons should be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 David J. E. Marsh , Ana-Roxana Pop

We investigate the astrophysical consequences of an attractive long-range interaction between dark matter and baryonic matter. Our study highlights the role of this interaction in inducing dynamical friction between dark matter and stars,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-06 Yang Ma , Zihui Wang

Scalar particles are a common prediction of many beyond the Standard Model theories. If they are light and cold enough, there is a possibility they may form Bose-Einstein condensates, which will then become gravitationally bound. These…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-19 Eric Cotner

In this Letter we further develop the proposed approach of optical manipulation based on the interactions of non-linear optical effects with nanoparticles. The interaction of the dissipative optical solitons with nanoparticles is studied…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-22 D. A. Dolinina , A. S. Shalin , A. V. Yulin

The effects of scalar and pseudoscalar ultralight bosonic dark matter (UBDM) were searched for by comparing the frequency of a quartz oscillator to that of a hyperfine-structure transition in $^{87}$Rb, and an electronic transition in…

We introduce a model for the condensate of dipolar atoms or molecules, in which the dipole-dipole interaction (DDI) is periodically modulated in space, due to a periodic change of the local orientation of the permanent dipoles, imposed by…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-16 Fatkhulla Kh. Abdullaev , Arnaldo Gammal , Boris A. Malomed , Lauro Tomio

In this work we present a systematic theoretical analysis regarding dark-bright solitons and their interactions, motivated by recent advances in atomic two-component repulsively interacting Bose-Einstein condensates. In particular, we study…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-01-25 G. C. Katsimiga , J. Stockhofe , P. G. Kevrekidis , P. Schmelcher

We propose to search for scalar dark matter via its effects on the electromagnetic fine-structure constant and particle masses. Scalar dark matter that forms an oscillating classical field produces `slow' linear-in-time drifts and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-16 Yevgeny V. Stadnik , Benjamin M. Roberts , Victor V. Flambaum , Vladimir A. Dzuba

We explore how dynamical friction in an ultralight dark matter (ULDM) background is affected by dark matter self-interactions. We calculate the force of dynamical friction on a point mass moving through a uniform ULDM background with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-07 Noah Glennon , Nathan Musoke , Ethan O. Nadler , Chanda Prescod-Weinstein , Risa H. Wechsler

One of the simplest possible candidates for dark matter is a stable scalar singlet beyond the Standard Model. If its mass is below the Hubble scale during inflation, long-wavelength modes of this scalar will be excited during inflation, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-03 Marcos A. G. Garcia , Wenqi Ke , Yann Mambrini , Keith A. Olive , Sarunas Verner

Prolific interactions of nonlinear waves on a plane-wave background in an erbium-doped fiber system are unveiled, based on explicit coexistence conditions extracting from the general higher-order solution of a coupled nonlinear…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2016-01-21 Liang Duan , Zhan-Ying Yang , Chong Liu , Wen-Li Yang