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Recent fully non-linear simulations of ultracompact spherically symmetric boson stars have presented evidence for their long-term stability. All observed dynamics could be mainly attributed to the fundamental radial mode. In this work, we…

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Fully non-linear numerical evolutions of the Einstein-(multi)--Klein-Gordon equations are performed to study head-on collisions of $\ell$-boson stars. Despite being spherically symmetric, $\ell$-boson stars have a (hidden) frame of…

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We investigate numerically a models of the static spherically symmetric boson-fermion stars in scalar-tensor theory of gravity with massive dilaton field. The proper mathematical model of such stars is interpreted as a nonlinear…

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The structure of binary mixtures of bosonic and fermionic atoms in an external trapping potential at zero temperature is studied on the basis of a modified Gross-Pitaevskii equation for the bosonic component which self-consistently includes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Robert Roth

We study the spontaneous scalarization of spherically symmetric, asymptotically flat boson stars in the $(\alpha {\cal R} + \gamma {\cal G}) \phi^2$ scalar-tensor gravity model. These compact objects are made of a complex valued scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-10-02 Yves Brihaye , Betti Hartmann

The Klein-Gordon-Einstein equations of classical real scalar fields have time-dependent solutions (periodic in time). We show that quantum real scalar fields can form non-oscillating (static) solitonic objects, which are quite similar to…

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This paper investigates chains of rotating boson stars (BSs) within Einstein gravity coupled to a complex scalar field. The model incorporates quartic or sextic self-interactions in the scalar Lagrangian, which support the existence of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-09 Hao-Ran Sun , Jing-Kang Bin , Li Zhao

We review the derivation of the pulsations equations for spherically symmetric boson stars and then make a thorough study of the radial oscillation frequencies for the fundamental and first excited modes. We do this for self-interacting…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-16 Ben Kain

There is increasing numerical evidence that scalar fields can form long-lived quasi-bound states around black holes. Recent perturbative and numerical relativity calculations have provided further confirmation in a variety of physical…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-07-19 Alejandro Escorihuela-Tomàs , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Juan Carlos Degollado , José A. Font

The coupled Einstein-Dirac equations for a static, spherically symmetric system of two fermions in a singlet spinor state are derived. Using numerical methods, we construct an infinite number of soliton-like solutions of these equations.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-11-19 Felix Finster , Joel Smoller , Shing-Tung Yau

Based on the secular spin evolution of black holes, neutron stars, gravastars, or boson stars in precessing compact binaries on eccentric orbit, we identify the aligned and more generic coplanar configurations of the spins and orbital…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-04 Zoltán Keresztes , László Árpád Gergely

We examined the Einstein-Klein-Gordon system coupled to a nonlinear electrodynamics framework that asymptotically supports a Hayward spacetime. We explored the solution space of a static spherically symmetric, complex scalar field minimally…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-19 Sebastian S. Chicaiza-Medina , Juan Carlos Degollado

We study the dynamical stability of Proca-Higgs stars, in spherical symmetry. These are solutions of the Einstein-Proca-Higgs model, which features a Higgs-like field coupled to a Proca field, both of which minimally coupled to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-13 Marco Brito , Carlos Herdeiro , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , Etevaldo dos Santos Costa Filho , Miguel Zilhão

Boson stars, hypothetical astrophysical objects bound by the self-gravity of a scalar field, have been widely studied as a type of exotic compact object that is horizonless and provides a testing ground for physics beyond the Standard…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-23 Yu Miyauchi , Takahiro Tanaka

Boson stars are gravitationally bound objects that arise in ultralight dark matter models and form in the centers of galactic halos or axion miniclusters. We systematically study the excitations of a boson star, taking into account the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-27 James Hung-Hsu Chan , Sergey Sibiryakov , Wei Xue

We discuss spherically symmetric static solutions of the Einstein-Klein-Gordon equations for a real scalar field with a mass and a quartic self-interaction term. As for the massless case the solutions have a naked singularity at the origin.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Philippe Jetzer , David Scialom

A Faraday-wave-like parametric instability is investigated via mean-field and Floquet analysis in immiscible binary Bose-Einstein condensates. The condensates form a so-called \textit{ball-shell} structure in a two-dimensional harmonic…

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Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Volodymyr Derzhko

We study charged boson stars in scalar-tensor (ST) gravitational theories. We analyse the weak field limit of the solutions and analytically show that there is a maximum charge to mass ratio for the bosons above which the weak field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-25 A. W. Whinnett , Diego F. Torres

Boson stars have attracted much attention in recent decades as simple, self-consistent models of compact objects and also as self-gravitating structures formed in some dark-matter scenarios. Direct detection of these hypothetical objects…

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