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We investigate the role of contact interactions in the dynamics of fuzzy dark matter (FDM) modeled through the Schr\"odinger-Poisson equation in one spatial dimension. While the $\Lambda$CDM paradigm successfully explains structure…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-27 Óscar Rodríguez-Villalba , Ivan Saychenko , Massimo Pietroni , Sandro Wimberger

An ultra-light bosonic particle of mass around $10^{-22}\,\mathrm{eV}/c^2$ is of special interest as a dark matter candidate, as it both has particle physics motivations, and may give rise to notable differences in the structures on highly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-18 Simon May , Volker Springel

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) has recently emerged as an interesting alternative model to the standard Cold Dark Matter (CDM). In this model, dark matter consists of very light bosonic particles with quantum mechanical effects on galactic scales.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-08 Sana Elgamal , Matteo Nori , Andrea V. Macciò , Marco Baldi , Stefan Waterval

Fuzzy (wave) dark matter (FDM), the dynamical model underlying an ultralight bosonic dark matter species, produces a rich set of non-gravitational signatures that distinguishes it markedly from the phenomenologically related warm (particle)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-22 Tim Zimmermann , David J. E. Marsh , Keir K. Rogers , Hans A. Winther , Sijing Shen

Dark matter models involving a very light bosonic particle, generally known as Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM), have been recently attracting great interest in the cosmology community, as their wave-like phenomenology would simultaneously explain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-23 Matteo Nori , Marco Baldi

The era of precision cosmology allows us to test the composition of the dark matter. Mixed ultralight or fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is a cosmological model with dark matter composed of a combination of particles of mass $m\leq…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-11 Alex Laguë , Bodo Schwabe , Renée Hložek , David J. E. Marsh , Keir K. Rogers

A very light boson of mass $\mathcal{O}(10^{-22})$ eV may potentially be a viable dark matter (DM) candidate which can avoid phenomenological problems associated with cold DM. Such "fuzzy DM (FDM)" may naturally be an axion with a decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-12 Hooman Davoudiasl , Christopher W. Murphy

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM), motivated by string theory, has recently become a hot candidate for dark matter. The rest mass of FDM is believed to be $\sim 10^{-22}$eV and the corresponding de-Broglie wave length is $\sim 1$kpc. Therefore, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-08 Jiajun Zhang , Hantao Liu , Ming-Chung Chu

The nature of dark matter remains a central question in cosmology, with fuzzy dark matter (FDM) models offering a compelling alternative to the cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm. We explore FDM scenarios by performing 21-cm simulations across…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Bahareh Soleimanpour Salmasi , S. Mobina Hosseini

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is a dark matter candidate consisting of ultra-light scalar particles with masses around $10^{-22} \mathrm{eV}/c^2$, a regime where cold bosonic matter behaves as a collective wave rather than individual particles.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Simon May , Volker Springel

We present an in-depth exploration of the phenomenon of dynamical friction in a universe where the dark matter is composed entirely of so-called Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM), ultralight bosons of mass $m\sim\mathcal{O}(10^{-22})\,$eV. We review…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Lachlan Lancaster , Cara Giovanetti , Philip Mocz , Yonatan Kahn , Mariangela Lisanti , David N. Spergel

The fuzzy dark matter (FDM) scenario has received increased attention in recent years due to the small-scale challenges of the vanilla Lambda cold dark matter ($\Lambda$CDM) cosmological model and the lack of any experimental evidence for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-20 Tibor Dome , Anastasia Fialkov , Philip Mocz , Björn Malte Schäfer , Michael Boylan-Kolchin , Mark Vogelsberger

We present a new module of the parallel N-Body code P-GADGET3 for cosmological simulations of light bosonic non-thermal dark matter, often referred as Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM). The dynamics of the FDM features a highly non-linear Quantum…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-06 M. Nori , M. Baldi

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) represents an alternative and intriguing description of the standard Cold Dark Matter (CDM) fluid, able to explain the lack of direct detection of dark matter particles in the GeV sector and to alleviate small scales…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-30 Matteo Nori , Riccardo Murgia , Vid Iršič , Marco Baldi , Matteo Viel

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) made of ultra-light bosonic particles is a viable alternative to cold dark matter (CDM) with clearly distinguishable small-scale features in collapsed structures. On large scales, it behaves gravitationally like CDM…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-11 Bodo Schwabe , Jens C. Niemeyer

We investigate nonlinear structure formation in the fuzzy dark matter (FDM) model using both numerical and perturbative techniques. On the numerical side, we examine the virtues and limitations of a Schrodinger-Poisson solver (wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-27 Xinyu Li , Lam Hui , Greg L. Bryan

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM), composed of ultralight bosons, exhibits intricate wave phenomena on galactic scales. Compared to cold dark matter, FDM simulations are significantly more computationally demanding due to the need to resolve the de…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Hsi-Yu Schive

AI super-resolution, combining deep learning and N-body simulations has been shown to successfully reproduce the large scale structure and halo abundances in the Lambda Cold Dark Matter cosmological model. Here, we extend its use to models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-16 Meris Sipp , Patrick LaChance , Rupert Croft , Yueying Ni , Tiziana Di Matteo

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is a promising candidate for dark matter, characterized by its ultra-light mass, which gives rise to wave effects at astrophysical scales. These effects offer potential solutions to the small-scale issues encountered…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-30 Hamed Manouchehri Kousha , Mohammad Ansarifard , Aliakbar Abolhasani

We study cosmological structure formation with ultralight axion dark matter, or "fuzzy dark matter (FDM), using a particle-mesh scheme to account for the quantum pressure arising in the Madelung formulation of the Schr\"odinger-Poisson…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-03 Jan Veltmaat , Jens C. Niemeyer
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