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While ultra-light bosonic dark matter (ULDM) in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) state could naturally account for the central core in some galaxies and resolve the core-cusp problem, the dark matter density distribution in the outer…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-10-16 Tian-yao Fang , Ming-Chung Chu

We consider the FLRW universe in a loop quantum cosmological model filled with the radiation, baryonic matter (with negligible pressure), dark energy and dark matter. The dark matter sector is supposed to be of Bose-Einstein condensate…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-09-07 K. Atazadeh , F. Darabi , M. Mousavi

We propose a unified framework that reconciles the stunning success of MOND on galactic scales with the triumph of the LambdaCDM model on cosmological scales. This is achieved through the physics of superfluidity. Dark matter consists of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-17 Lasha Berezhiani , Justin Khoury

The superfluid dark matter model offers an elegant solution to reconcile discrepancies between the predictions of the cold dark matter paradigm and observations on galactic scales. In this scenario, dark matter is composed of ultralight…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-17 Lasha Berezhiani , Giordano Cintia , Valerio De Luca , Justin Khoury

Cosmic strings are topological defects possibly formed in the early Universe, which may be observable due to their gravitational effects on the cosmic microwave background radiation or gravitational wave experiments. To this effect it is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-01 R. P. L. Azevedo , C. J. A. P. Martins

We investigate the dynamics of two miscible superfluids experiencing fast counterflow in a narrow channel. The superfluids are formed by two distinguishable components of a trapped dilute-gas Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). The onset of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-11-10 M. A. Hoefer , J. J. Chang , C. Hamner , P. Engels

The search for cosmic strings has been of renewed interest with the advent of precision cosmology. In this note we give a quantitative description of the nonlinear matter density fluctuations that can form from a scaling network of cosmic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-06 Francis Duplessis , Robert Brandenberger

The pole of the two-particle T-matrix including the influence of the surrounding medium is analyzed for an interacting Bose gas. The phase diagram of the Bose -Einstein condensation (BEC) depending on the temperature, density, scattering…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-09-08 K. Morawetz M. Männel , M. Schreiber , P. Lipavský

We consider the possible existence of gravitationally bound general relativistic strings consisting of Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) matter which is described, in the Newtonian limit, by the zero temperature time-dependent nonlinear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-29 Tiberiu Harko , Matthew J. Lake

We explore cosmological implications of dark matter as massive particles trapped on a brane embedded in a Randall-Sundrum noncompact higher dimension $AdS_5$ space. It is an unavoidable consequence of this cosmology that massive particles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Ichiki , P. M. Garnavich , T. Kajino , G. J. Mathews , M. Yahiro

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 discuss the appearance of topological structures from the spontaneous breaking of $E_6$ to the Standard Model via its maximal subgroup $SO(10) \times U(1)_\psi$. They include dumbbells, metastable strings, as well as domain walls bounded…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-18 Rinku Maji , Qaisar Shafi , Amit Tiwari

The main aim of this study is to reveal curved space and particle physics effects on the formation of Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) scalar fields in cosmology and around a black hole. Cosmological scalar fields for dark energy and dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-11 Kemal Gültekin

In the established era of dark matter, condensed matter Hamiltonians-including those of superconductors-may require extension to account for the surrounding Galactic environment. We show that if dark matter is wave-like and couples weakly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Yechan Kim , Hye-Sung Lee , Jiheon Lee , Jaeok Yi

We study the interaction between dark sectors by considering the momentum transfer caused by the dark matter scattering elastically within the dark energy fluid. Describing the dark scattering analogy to the Thomson scattering which couples…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 Xiao-Dong Xu , Bin Wang , Elcio Abdalla

We investigate a simple model for a galactic halo under the assumption that it is dominated by a dark matter component in the form of a Bose-Einstein condensate involving an ultra-light scalar particle. In particular we discuss the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-16 Mark N Brook , Peter Coles

Mass bounds on dark matter (DM) candidates are obtained for particles decoupling in or out of equilibrium with {\bf arbitrary} isotropic and homogeneous distribution functions. A coarse grained Liouville invariant primordial phase space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 D. Boyanovsky , H. J. de Vega , N. Sanchez

We study the diffusion of massive particles in the space time of an Abelian Higgs string. The particles in the early universe plasma execute Brownian motion. This motion of the particles is modeled as a two dimensional random walk in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-28 Abhisek Saha , Soma Sanyal

In this letter, we report precise and robust observational constraints on dark matter-dark energy scattering cross section, using the latest data from cosmic microwave background (CMB) Planck temperature and polarization, baryon acoustic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-06 Suresh Kumar , Rafael C. Nunes

We study the phenomenology of superheavy decaying dark matter with mass around $10^{10}$ GeV which can arise in the low-energy limit of string compactifications. Generic features of string theory setups (such as high scale supersymmetry…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-04 Rouzbeh Allahverdi , Chiara Arina , Marco Chianese , Michele Cicoli , Fabio Maltoni , Daniele Massaro , Jacek K. Osiński