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Through the black hole (BH) superradiance, ultralight bosons can form dense clouds around rotating Kerr BHs. Certain ultralight bosons, such as axions and axion-like particles (promising dark matter candidates), naturally possess…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-22 Ning Xie , Fa Peng Huang

We study the atomic physics and the astrophysical implications of a model in which the dark matter is the analog of hydrogen in a secluded sector. The self interactions between dark matter particles include both elastic scatterings as well…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-11 Kimberly K. Boddy , Manoj Kaplinghat , Anna Kwa , Annika H. G. Peter

We report the experimental observation of discrete bright matter-wave solitons with attractive interaction in an optical lattice. Using an accordion lattice with adjustable spacing, we prepare a Bose-Einstein condensate of cesium atoms…

Cosmological scalar fields coupled to the Standard Model drive temporal variations in the fundamental constants that grow with redshift, positioning the early Universe as a powerful tool to study such models. We investigate the dynamics and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-04 Masha Baryakhtar , Olivier Simon , Zachary J. Weiner

Axio-dilaton cosmology provides a minimal benchmark model for both Dark Matter (DM) and Dark Energy (DE) that is well motivated by fundamental physics. The axion and dilaton arise as pseudo-Goldstone modes of symmetries that predict…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-30 Adam Smith , Maria Mylova , Carsten van de Bruck , C. P. Burgess , Eleonora Di Valentino

The statics, stability and dynamical properties of dark-bright soliton pairs are investigated motivated by applications in a homogeneous system of two-component repulsively interacting Bose-Einstein condensate. One of the intra-species…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2018-05-02 G. C. Katsimiga , P. G. Kevrekidis , B. Prinari , G. Biondini , P. Schmelcher

We investigate cosmological implications of an energy density contribution arising by elastic dark matter self-interactions. Its scaling behaviour shows that it can be the dominant energy contribution in the early universe. Constraints from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-06 Rainer Stiele , Tillmann Boeckel , Jurgen Schaffner-Bielich

We perform a high-resolution cosmological zoom-in simulation of a Milky Way (MW)--like system, which includes a realistic Large Magellanic Cloud analog, using a large differential elastic dark matter self-interaction cross section that…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-06-06 Daneng Yang , Ethan O. Nadler , Hai-Bo Yu

Dark matter (DM) can consist of a scalar field so light that DM particles in the galactic halo are best described by classical waves. We investigate how these classical solutions are influenced by the presence of a non-rotating supermassive…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-12-12 Bruno Bucciotti , Enrico Trincherini

Dark matter self-interactions have important implications for the distributions of dark matter in the Universe, from dwarf galaxies to galaxy clusters. We present benchmark models that illustrate characteristic features of dark matter that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-25 Manoj Kaplinghat , Sean Tulin , Hai-Bo Yu

New long range forces acting on ordinary matter are highly constrained. However it is possible such forces act on dark matter, as it is less constrained observationally. In this work, we consider dark matter to be made of light bosons, such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-20 Alize Sucsuzer , Mark P. Hertzberg , Michiru Uwabo-Niibo

This study aims to investigate the interactions of solitons with an external force within the framework of the Schamel equation, both asymptotically and numerically. By utilizing asymptotic expansions, we demonstrate that the soliton…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-08-09 Marcelo V. Flamarion , Efim Pelinovsky

We study properties of boson stars consisting of ultra-light scalar dark matter with repulsive self-interactions. We investigate the origin of the maximum mass of spherically symmetric stable stars which emerges only when solving the full…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-17 Djuna Croon , JiJi Fan , Chen Sun

We reveal and observe experimentally significant modifications undertaken by discrete solitons in waveguide lattices upon the continuous transformation of the lattice structure from one-dimensional to two-dimensional. Light evolution and…

Axion like particles (ALPs) are quite generic in many scenarios for physics beyond the Standard Model, they are pseudoscalar Nambu-Goldstone bosons, and appear once any global $U(1)$ symmetry is broken spontaneously. The ALPs can gain mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 Anupam Mazumdar , Saleh Qutub

We study the evolution of a collisionally inhomogeneous matter wave in a spatial gradient of the interaction strength. Starting with a Bose-Einstein condensate with weak repulsive interactions in quasi-one-dimensional geometry, we monitor…

In this work, we consider the dynamics of the self-induced collapse of the tachyon wave function in inflationary scenarios. We analyze the modifications on the power spectrum by considering the $\beta$-exponential potential, whose…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 F. A. Brito , Julio C. M. Rocha , A. S. Lemos , A. S. Pereira

We reveal the existence of polariton soliton solutions in the array of weakly coupled optical cavities, each containing an ensemble of interacting qubits. An effective complex Ginzburg-Landau equation is derived in the continuum limit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 I. -H. Chen , Y. Y. Lin , Y. -C. Lai , E. S. Sedov , A. P. Alodjants , S. M. Arakelian , R. -K. Lee

This document contains refereed supplementary information for the paper ``Rapid planetesimal formation in turbulent circumstellar discs''. It contains 15 sections (\S1.1 -- \S1.15) that address a number of subjects related to the main…

We study the stability, form and interaction of single and multiple dark solitons in quasi-one-dimensional dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates. The solitons are found numerically as stationary solutions in the moving frame of a non-local…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-06-28 M. J. Edmonds , T. Bland , D. H. J. O'Dell , N. G. Parker