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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…

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We present non-linear solutions of Vlasov Perturbation Theory (VPT), describing gravitational clustering of collisionless dark matter with dispersion and higher cumulants induced by orbit crossing. We show that VPT can be cast into a form…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Mathias Garny , Dominik Laxhuber , Roman Scoccimarro

High-resolution simulations of particle-based kinetic plasma models typically require a high number of particles and thus often become computationally intractable. This is exacerbated in multi-query simulations, where the problem depends on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-07-10 Jan S. Hesthaven , Cecilia Pagliantini , Nicolò Ripamonti

We present quantum algorithms for simulating the dynamics of a broad class of classical oscillator systems containing $2^n$ coupled oscillators (Eg: $2^n$ masses coupled by springs), including those with time-dependent forces, time-varying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 Abhinav Muraleedharan , Nathan Wiebe

Massive scalar fields provide excellent dark matter candidates, whose dynamics are often explored analytically and numerically using nonrelativistic Schr\"{o}dinger-Poisson (SP) equations in a cosmological context. In this paper, starting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 Borna Salehian , Hong-Yi Zhang , Mustafa A. Amin , David I. Kaiser , Mohammad Hossein Namjoo

This paper presents a grid-free simulation algorithm for the fully three-dimensional Vlasov--Poisson system for collisionless electron plasmas. We employ a standard particle method for the numerical approximation of the distribution…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-03-06 Torsten Keßler , Sergej Rjasanow , Steffen Weißer

The collapse of a collisionless self-gravitating system, with the fast achievement of a quasi-stationary state, is driven by violent relaxation, with a typical particle interacting with the time-changing collective potential. It is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-21 Leandro Beraldo e Silva , Walter de Siqueira Pedra , Laerte Sodré , Eder Perico , Marcos Lima

We explore a novel approach to the study of large-scale structure formation in which self-gravitating cold dark matter (CDM) is represented by a complex scalar field whose dynamics are governed by coupled Schrodinger and Poisson equations.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. J. Short , P. Coles

We study the large time behavior of classical solutions to the two-dimensional Vlasov-Poisson (VP) and relativistic Vlasov-Poisson (RVP) systems launched by radially-symmetric initial data with compact support. In particular, we prove that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Jonathan Ben-Artzi , Baptiste Morisse , Stephen Pankavich

This paper introduces a novel deep-learning-based approach for numerical simulation of a time-evolving Schr\"odinger equation inspired by stochastic mechanics and generative diffusion models. Unlike existing approaches, which exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Elena Orlova , Aleksei Ustimenko , Ruoxi Jiang , Peter Y. Lu , Rebecca Willett

We review the field of collisionless numerical simulations for the large-scale structure of the Universe. We start by providing the main set of equations solved by these simulations and their connection with General Relativity. We then…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-14 Raul E. Angulo , Oliver Hahn

In cosmology numerical simulations of structure formation are now of central importance, as they are the sole instrument for providing detailed predictions of current cosmological models for a whole class of important constraining…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Michael Joyce

We present a new code, SCALAR, based on the high-resolution hydrodynamics and N-body code RAMSES, to solve the Schr\"odinger equation on adaptive refined meshes. The code is intended to be used to simulate axion or fuzzy dark matter models…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Mattia Mina , David F. Mota , Hans A. Winther

The real- and imaginary-time evolution of quantum states are powerful tools in physics, chemistry, and beyond, to investigate quantum dynamics, prepare ground states or calculate thermodynamic observables. On near-term devices, variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-27 Julien Gacon , Jannes Nys , Riccardo Rossi , Stefan Woerner , Giuseppe Carleo

We study the complete cosmological evolution of dark matter (DM) density fluctuations for DM particles that decoupled being ultrarelativistic during the radiation dominated era which is the case of keV scale warm DM (WDM). The new framework…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 H. J. de Vega , N. G. Sanchez

We investigate the differences in the small-scale structure of vector dark matter (VDM) and scalar dark matter (SDM) using 3+1 dimensional simulations of single/multicomponent Schr\"{o}dinger-Poisson system. We find that the amount of wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-22 Mustafa A. Amin , Mudit Jain , Rohith Karur , Philip Mocz

We investigate the dynamics of a cosmological dark matter fluid in the Schr\"odinger formulation, seeking to evaluate the approach as a potential tool for theorists. We find simple wave-mechanical solutions of the equations for the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-06 Rebecca Johnston , A. N. Lasenby , M. P. Hobson

The standard perturbation theory (SPT) approach to gravitational clustering is based on a fluid approximation of the underlying Vlasov-Poisson dynamics, taking only the zeroth and first cumulant of the phase-space distribution function into…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Mathias Garny , Dominik Laxhuber , Roman Scoccimarro

Particle methods are a ubiquitous tool for solving the Vlasov-Poisson equation in comoving coordinates, which is used to model the gravitational evolution of dark matter in an expanding universe. However, these methods are known to produce…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-12 Andrew Myers , Phillip Colella , Brian Van Straalen

Kinetic plasma simulations solve the Vlasov-Poisson or Vlasov-Maxwell equations to evolve scalar-variable distribution functions in position-velocity phase space and vector-variable electromagnetic fields in physical space. The…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Andrew Ho , Genia Vogman