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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…

A Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) halo consists of a soliton core close to the center and an NFW-like density profile in the outer region. Previous investigations found that the soliton core exhibits temporal oscillations and random walk excursions…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-13 Xinyu Li , Lam Hui , Tomer D. Yavetz

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is composed of ultra-light bosons having a de Broglie wavelength that is comparable to the size of the stellar component of galaxies at typical galactic velocities. FDM behaves like cold dark matter on large scales.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-07-07 Ben Bar-Or , Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Scott Tremaine

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

Dark matter may be composed of light bosons, ${m_b \sim 10^{-22}\, \mathrm{eV}}$, with a de Broglie wavelength $\lambda \sim 1 \,\mathrm{kpc}$ in typical galactic potentials. Such `fuzzy' dark matter (FDM) behaves like cold dark matter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-28 Ben Bar-Or , Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Scott Tremaine

An intriguing alternative to cold dark matter (CDM) is that the dark matter is a light ( $m \sim 10^{-22}$ eV) boson having a de Broglie wavelength $\lambda \sim 1$ kpc, often called fuzzy dark matter (FDM). We describe the arguments from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Lam Hui , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Scott Tremaine , Edward Witten

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) comprised of ultralight ($m \sim 10^{-22}~\rm{eV}$) boson particles has received significant attention as a viable alternative to Cold Dark Matter (CDM), as it approximates CDM on large scales ($\gtrsim 1$ Mpc) while…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-28 Connor A. Painter , Michael Boylan-Kolchin , Philip Mocz , Mark Vogelsberger

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) is among the most suitable candidates to replace WIMPs and to resolve the puzzling mystery of dark matter. A galactic dark matter halo made of these ultralight bosonic particles leads to the formation of a solitonic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-03-19 Gabriel d'Andrade Furlanetto , Riccardo Della Monica , Ivan De Martino

We simulate the gravitational dynamics of a massive object interacting with Ultralight / Fuzzy Dark Matter (ULDM/FDM), non-relativistic quantum matter described by the Schrodinger-Poisson equation. We first consider a point mass moving in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-06 Yourong Wang , Richard Easther

Whereas cold dark matter (CDM) simulations predict central dark matter cusps with densities that diverge as $\rho$(r)$\sim$ 1/r observations often indicate constant density cores with finite central densities $\rho_0$ and a flat density…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-12-09 Andreas Burkert

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

Ultralight bosonic dark matter called fuzzy dark matter (FDM) has attracted much attention as an alternative to the cold dark matter. An intriguing feature of the FDM model is the presence of a soliton core, a stable dense core formed at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Atsushi Taruya , Shohei Saga

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

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

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) or wave dark matter is an alternative theory designed to solve the small-scale problems faced by the standard cold dark matter proposal for the primary material component of the universe. It is made up of ultra-light…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Mihir Kulkarni , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

In the fuzzy dark matter (FDM) model, gravitationally collapsed objects always consist of a solitonic core located within a virialised halo. Although various numerical simulations have confirmed that the collapsed structure can be described…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-27 Hei Yin Jowett Chan , Elisa G. M. Ferreira , Simon May , Kohei Hayashi , Masashi Chiba

Scalar Field Dark Matter (SFDM), comprised of ultralight ($\gtrsim 10^{-22}$ eV) bosons, is distinguished from massive ($\gtrsim$ GeV), collisionless Cold Dark Matter (CDM) by its novel structure-formation dynamics as Bose-Einstein…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-05-26 Sonja O. Schobesberger , Tanja Rindler-Daller , Paul R. Shapiro

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

The Ultra-Light Axion (ULA) is a dark matter candidate with mass $\mathcal{O}(10^{-22})$eV and de Broglie wavelength of order kpc. Such an axion, also called the Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM), thermalizes via the gravitational force and forms a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-01-30 Jiajun Zhang , Yue-Lin Sming Tsai , Jui-Lin Kuo , Kingman Cheung , Ming-Chung Chu

We use observations of ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) galaxies to constrain the particle mass of ultra-light dark matter. Potential fluctuations created by wave interference in virialized "fuzzy" dark matter (FDM) halos dynamically heat stellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-22 Neal Dalal , Andrey Kravtsov
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