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Dark matter as scalar particles consisting of multiple species is well motivated in string theory where axion fields are ubiquitous. A two-field fuzzy dark matter (FDM) model features two species of ultralight axion particles with different…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-01 Hoang Nhan Luu , Philip Mocz , Mark Vogelsberger , Simon May , Josh Borrow , S. -H. Henry Tye , Tom Broadhurst

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

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

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) has recently emerged as an interesting alternative model to the standard Cold Dark Matter (CDM). In this model, dark matter consists of very light bosonic particles with quantum mechanical effects on galactic scales.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-08 Sana Elgamal , Matteo Nori , Andrea V. Macciò , Marco Baldi , Stefan Waterval

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

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

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), a scalar particle coupled to the gravitational field without self-interaction whose mass range is $m \sim 10^{-24} - 10^{-20}\ \rm{eV}$, is one of the promising alternative dark matter candidates to cold dark…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-02 Hiroki Kawai , Masamune Oguri , Alfred Amruth , Tom Broadhurst , Jeremy Lim

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

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

An ultra-light bosonic particle of mass around $10^{-22}\,\mathrm{eV}/c^2$ is of special interest as a dark matter candidate, as it both has particle physics motivations, and may give rise to notable differences in the structures on highly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-18 Simon May , Volker Springel

The JWST early release data show unexpected high stellar mass densities of massive galaxies at $7<z<11$, a high star formation efficiency is probably needed to explain this. However, such a high star formation efficiency would greatly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-26 Yan Gong , Bin Yue , Ye Cao , Xuelei Chen

We derive the halo mass function (HMF) for fuzzy dark matter (FDM) by solving the excursion set problem explicitly with a mass-dependent barrier function, which has not been done before. We find that compared to the naive approach of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-21 Xiaolong Du , Christoph Behrens , Jens C. Niemeyer

The era of precision cosmology allows us to test the composition of the dark matter. Mixed ultralight or fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is a cosmological model with dark matter composed of a combination of particles of mass $m\leq…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-11 Alex Laguë , Bodo Schwabe , Renée Hložek , David J. E. Marsh , Keir K. Rogers

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) represents an alternative and intriguing description of the standard Cold Dark Matter (CDM) fluid, able to explain the lack of direct detection of dark matter particles in the GeV sector and to alleviate small scales…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-30 Matteo Nori , Riccardo Murgia , Vid Iršič , Marco Baldi , Matteo Viel

The fuzzy dark matter (FDM) scenario has received increased attention in recent years due to the small-scale challenges of the vanilla Lambda cold dark matter ($\Lambda$CDM) cosmological model and the lack of any experimental evidence for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-20 Tibor Dome , Anastasia Fialkov , Philip Mocz , Björn Malte Schäfer , Michael Boylan-Kolchin , Mark Vogelsberger

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM), composed of ultralight bosons, exhibits intricate wave phenomena on galactic scales. Compared to cold dark matter, FDM simulations are significantly more computationally demanding due to the need to resolve the de…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-07 Hsi-Yu Schive

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is an intriguing candidate alternative to the standard cold dark matter (CDM). The FDM model predicts that dark halos have characteristic core structures generated by the effect of quantum pressure, which is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-17 Hiroki Kawai , Ayuki Kamada , Kohei Kamada , Naoki Yoshida

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

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
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