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We assume dark matter to be a cosmological self-gravitating Bose-Einstein condensate of non-relativistic ultralight scalar particles with competing gravitational and repulsive contact interactions and investigate the observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-19 V. Delgado , A. Muñoz Mateo

We review the physics and phenomenology of wave dark matter: a bosonic dark matter candidate lighter than about 30 eV. Such particles have a de Broglie wavelength exceeding the average inter-particle separation in a galaxy like the Milky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-01 Lam Hui

We consider a cosmic string moving through a gas of superfluid dark matter (SFDM) particles and analyze how it affects the dark matter distribution. We look at two different cases: first, a cosmic string passing through an already condensed…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Heliudson Bernardo , Robert Brandenberger , Aline Favero

Axions and axion-like particles are a leading model for the dark matter in the Universe; therefore, dark matter halos may be boson stars in the process of collapsing. We examine a class of static boson stars with a non-minimal coupling to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-22 Jeremy Heyl , Matthew W. Choptuik , David Shinkaruk

The linearized Einstein theory in the approximately flat time-space is modified accounting for a massive graviton as a dark matter in the universe. On the basis of magnetic-type Maxwell- Proca -Vlasov equations, the interactions of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-06-05 Xiao-qing Li

Axion dark matter thermalizes by gravitational self-interactions and forms a Bose-Einstein condensate. We show that the rethermalization of the axion fluid during the initial collapse of large scale overdensities near cosmic dawn transports…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-07 Pierre Sikivie , Yuxin Zhao

The hypothesis of an `invisible' axion was made by Misha Shifman and others, approximately thirty years ago. It has turned out to be an unusually fruitful idea, crossing boundaries between particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology. An…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-14 P. Sikivie

There is a strong possibility that the particles making up the dark matter in the Universe have a mass below 1 eV and in many important situations exhibit a wave-like behavior. Amongst the candidates the axion stands out as particularly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-20 Joerg Jaeckel , Gray Rybka , Lindley Winslow

We show that Dark Matter consisting of bosons of mass of about 1eV or less has critical temperature exceeding the temperature of the universe at all times, and hence would have formed a Bose-Einstein condensate at very early epochs. We also…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-18 Saurya Das , Rajat K. Bhaduri

We present a novel theory of a unified dark sector, where late-time cosmic acceleration emerges from the dark matter superfluid framework. The system is described by a superfluid mixture consisting of two distinguishable states with a small…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Elisa G. M. Ferreira , Guilherme Franzmann , Justin Khoury , Robert Brandenberger

Most of the galaxies harbor supermassive Black Holes (SMBH) in their center. Some of them are observed in very high redshifts. We explore the possibility that SMBH form from the coherent waves of Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) which are…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-08 M. Morikawa , S. Takahashi

Physical process version of the first law of black hole thermodynamics in Einstein- Maxwell dark matter gravity was derived. The dark matter sector is mimicked by the additional U(1)-gauge field coupled to the ordinary Maxwell one. By…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-01 Marek Rogatko , Aneta Wojnar

The theory of superfluid dark matter is characterized by self-interacting sub-eV particles that thermalize and condense to form a superfluid core in galaxies. Massive black holes at the center of galaxies, however, modify the dark matter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-24 Lasha Berezhiani , Giordano Cintia , Valerio De Luca , Justin Khoury

The axion-like particles with ultralight mass ($\sim10^{-22}$eV) can be a possible candidate of dark matter, known as the fuzzy dark matter (FDM). These particles form Bose-Einstein condensate in the early Universe which can explain the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-01-14 Shreyansh S. Dave , Sanatan Digal

The particle that makes up the dark matter of the universe could be an axion or axion-like particle. A collection of axions can condense into a bound Bose-Einstein condensate called an axion star. It is possible that a significant fraction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-30 Eric Braaten , Hong Zhang

A new model for dark matter is put forward which consists of uniform droplets of Bose Einstein condensate. In this model, structure forms rapidly, shortly after the hot big bang plasma de-ionises. The model also produces modifications to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-03-04 Ian G Moss

In superfluid dark matter the exchange of phonons can create an additional force that has an effect similar to Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND). To test whether this hypothesis is compatible with observation, we study a set of strong…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-15 Sabine Hossenfelder , Tobias Mistele

An ultra-light axion field with mass $\sim 10^{-22}\ {\rm eV}$, also known as wave or fuzzy dark matter, has been proposed as a component of the dark matter in the Universe. We study the evolution of the axion dark matter distribution in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-01 Jorge Vicens , Jordi Salvado , Jordi Miralda-Escudé

A new model describing the dark sector of the universe is established. The model involves Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) as dark energy (DE) and an excited state above it as dark matter (DM). The condensate is assumed to have a negative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-05-24 V. A. Popov

The hypothesis that dark matter consists of superheavy particles with the mass close to the Grand Unification scale is investigated. These particles were created from vacuum by the gravitation of the expanding Universe and their decay led…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. A. Grib , Yu. V. Pavlov