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The distinctive effects of fuzzy dark matter are most visible at non-linear galactic scales. We present the first simulations of mixed fuzzy and cold dark matter, obtained with an extended version of the Nyx code. Fuzzy (or ultralight, or…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-21 Bodo Schwabe , Mateja Gosenca , Christoph Behrens , Jens C. Niemeyer , Richard Easther

Gravitational weak lensing by dark matter halos leads to a measurable imprint in the shear correlation function of galaxies. Fuzzy dark matter (FDM), composed of ultralight axion-like particles of mass $m\sim 10^{-22}\text{ eV}$, suppresses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-29 Mona Dentler , David J. E. Marsh , Renée Hložek , Alex Laguë , Keir K. Rogers , Daniel Grin

We investigate nonlinear structure formation in the fuzzy dark matter (FDM) model in comparison to cold dark matter (CDM) models from a weak lensing perspective using perturbative methods. We use Eulerian perturbation theory (PT) up to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-29 Alexander Kunkel , Tzihong Chiueh , Björn Malte Schäfer

In the Dynamical Dark Matter (DDM) framework, the dark sector comprises a large number of constituent dark particles whose individual masses, lifetimes, and cosmological abundances obey specific scaling relations with respect to each other.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-28 Keith R. Dienes , Jacob Fennick , Jason Kumar , Brooks Thomas

Dark matter may be composed of ultra-light bosons whose de Broglie wavelength in galaxies is of order 1 kpc. The standard model for this fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is a complex scalar field that obeys the Schr\"odinger-Poisson equations. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-23 Boris Zupancic , Lawrence M. Widrow

We explore the imprints of fuzzy dark matter (FDM) on the redshifted 21~cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization by employing the wavelet scattering transform (WST). FDM, composed of ultralight scalar particles with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 Hayato Shimabukuro , Shihang Liu , Bohua Li

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM), consisting of ultralight bosons, is an intriguing alternative to Cold Dark Matter. Numerical simulations solving the Schr\"odinger-Poisson (SP) equation, which governs FDM dynamics, show that FDM halos consist of a…

We investigate phenomenologically the viability of fuzzy dark matter (FDM). We do this by confronting the predictions of the model, in particular, the formation of a solitonic core at the center of dark matter halos, with a homogeneous and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-03-15 Andrés Bañares-Hernández , Andrés Castillo , Jorge Martin Camalich , Giuliano Iorio

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) models admit self-similar solutions which are very different from their Cold Dark Matter (CDM) counterparts and do not converge to the latter in the semiclassical limit. In contrast with the familiar CDM hierarchical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-31 Raquel Galazo García , Philippe Brax , Patrick Valageas

Potential small-scale discrepancies in the picture of galaxy formation painted by the $\Lambda$CDM paradigm have led to considerations of modified dark matter models. One such dark matter model that has recently attracted much attention is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-08 Olof Nebrin , Raghunath Ghara , Garrelt Mellema

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is a compelling candidate for dark matter, offering a natural explanation for the structure of diffuse low-mass haloes. However, the canonical FDM model with a mass of $10^{-22}~{\rm eV}$ encounters challenges in…

It has been postulated that Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) could be a viable alternative to Cold Dark Matter (CDM). FDM is comprised of ultralight bosons which exist as a Bose-Einstein condensate. Due to the very low mass of FDM, the de Broglie…

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Theories defined in higher than four dimensions have been used in various frameworks and have a long and interesting history. Here we review certain attempts, developed over the last years, towards the construction of unified particle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-11-10 Athanasios Chatzistavrakidis , George Zoupanos

A scalar field $\phi$ endowed with a trigonometric potential has been proposed to play the role of Dark Matter. A deep study of the cosmological evolution of linear perturbations, and its comparison to the Cold Dark Matter (CDM) and Fuzzy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-03 Francisco X. Linares Cedeño , Alma X. González-Morales , L. Arturo Ureña-López

We describe the evolution of Dark Matter (DM) abundance from the very onset of its creation from inflaton decay under the assumption of an instantaneous reheating. Based on the initial conditions such as the inflaton mass and its decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-12 P. S. Bhupal Dev , Anupam Mazumdar , Saleh Qutub

The standard cold dark matter (CDM) model predicts too many and too dense small structures. We consider an alternative model that the dark matter undergoes two-body decays with cosmological lifetime $\tau$ into only one type of massive…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 Dalong Cheng , M. -C. Chu , Jiayu Tang

In this review we provide a rigorous and self-contained presentation of one-body reduced density-matrix (1RDM) functional theory. We do so for the case of a finite basis set, where density-functional theory (DFT) implicitly becomes a 1RDM…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-07 Klaas J. H. Giesbertz , Michael Ruggenthaler

The 21-cm signals from Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization contain valuable information on cosmological structure formation dominated by dark matter. Measurements of the 21-cm power spectrum can thus probe certain dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-15 Shihang Liu , Yilin Liu , Bowen Peng , Mengzhou Xie , Zelong Liu , Bohua Li , Yi Mao

In the Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) scenario, the dark matter is composed of an ultra-light scalar field with coherence length and wave interference on astrophysical scales. Scalar fields generically have quartic self-interactions that modify…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-31 Christian Capanelli , Wayne Hu , Evan McDonough

We introduce the Fuzzy Dark Sector (FDS) scenario as a rich, interacting system and candidate for dark matter. This serves as a natural extension of the single-component, non-interacting Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) paradigm. Concretely, we…

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