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We present a new implementation of fuzzy dark matter (FDM) dynamical friction within the galpy framework, enabling orbital integrations of globular clusters (GCs) across a broad range of halo-to-GC mass ratios and boson masses. In this…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-08 Adrian Szpilfidel , Pierre Boldrini , Jo Bovy , Paola Di Matteo

According to the Schr\"odinger-Poisson equations, fuzzy dark matter (FDM) can form a stable equilibrium configuration, the so-called FDM soliton. In principle, given the FDM particle mass, the profile of the FDM soliton is fixed. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-29 Chen Tan , M. Le Delliou , Ke Wang

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) consisting of ultra-light axions has been invoked to alleviate galactic-scale problems in the cold dark matter scenario. FDM fluctuations, created via the superposition of waves, can impact the motion of a central…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-10-07 Amr El-Zant , Zacharias Roupas , Joseph Silk

Observations on galactic scales seem to be in contradiction with recent high resolution N-body simulations. This so-called cold dark matter (CDM) crisis has been addressed in several ways, ranging from a change in fundamental physics by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Alexander Knebe , Julien Devriendt , Asim Mahmood , Joseph Silk

Cold dark matter (CDM) is a well established paradigm to describe cosmological structure formation, and works extraordinarily well on large, linear, scales. Progressing further in dark matter physics requires being able to understand…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-20 David J. E. Marsh

We study the formation and evolution of self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) halos. We find analytical, fully cosmological similarity solutions taking account of the collisional interaction of SIDM particles. This interaction results in a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-18 Kyungjin Ahn , Paul R. Shapiro

This paper investigates the feasibility of simulating Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) with a reduced number of spatial dimensions. Our aim is to set up a realistic, yet numerically inexpensive, toy model in $(1+1)$-dimensional space time, that -…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-28 Tim Zimmermann , Nico Schwersenz , Massimo Pietroni , Sandro Wimberger

In the last time the cold dark matter (CDM) model has suggested more and more that it is not able to describe all the properties of nearby galaxies that can be observed in great detail as well as that it has some problems in the mechanism…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Juan Magaña , Tonatiuh Matos , Victor Robles , Abril Suárez

The fuzzy dark matter model (FDM, also known as quantum wave dark matter model) argues that light bosons with a mass of $\sim10^{-22}{\;{\rm eV}}$ are a possible candidate for dark matter in the Universe. One of the most important…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-12 Zhi Li , Juntai Shen , Hsi-Yu Schive

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM), particularly in the $10^{-22}$ eV mass regime is frequently used to characterize wave-like interference effects. It exhibits macroscopic wave properties, which drive distinct baryonic dynamics within collapsed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-04-28 Alexander Tocher , Anastasia Fialkov , Simon May , Ralf S. Klessen , Simon C. O. Glover , Paul C. Clark , Tibor Dome

Observations of ultra-dense substructures in strong lensing systems challenge the standard cosmological model at small scales. Self-interacting dark matter (SIDM), as an alternative to the cold and collisionless dark matter (CDM) of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Yuxuan He , Weiyang Wang , Chen Zhang , Yi-Ming Zhong

Warm Dark Matter (WDM) models have recently been resurrected to resolve apparent conflicts of Cold Dark Matter (DM) models with observations. Endowing the DM particles with non-negligible velocities causes free-streaming, which suppresses…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Zoltan Haiman , Rennan Barkana , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

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

The dark energy dominated warm dark matter (WDM) model is a promising alternative cosmological scenario. We explore large-scale structure formation in this paradigm. We do this in two different ways: with the halo model approach and with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Aurel Schneider , Robert E. Smith , Andrea V. Maccio , Ben Moore

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

The properties of substructure in galaxy clusters, exquisitely probed by gravitational lensing, offer a stringent test of dark matter (DM) models. Combining strong- and weak-lensing data for massive clusters, we map their total mass --…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-12 Priyamvada Natarajan , Barry T. Chiang , Isaque Dutra

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

Abundance matching between galaxies and halos has proven to be an informative technique, less dependent on detailed physical approximations than some other methods. We extend the discussion to the dwarf galaxies realm and to the study of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-11-14 Pierre Cristofari , Jeremiah P. Ostriker

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) with mass around $10^{-22}$ eV is viewed as a promising paradigm in understanding the structure formation of the local universe at small scales. Recent observations, however, begin to challenge FDM in return. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-01-28 Shiyun Lu , Amara Ilyas , Xiao-Han Ma , Bo Wang , Dongdong Zhang , Yi-Fu Cai

Warm dark matter (WDM) is an intriguing model of structure formation from the point of view of both cosmology and particle physics. We consider a one-parameter family of WDM models. The linear power spectra for these models is calculated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Stephane Colombi , Scott Dodelson , Lawrence M. Widrow