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Dark matter may be composed of light bosons, ${m_b \sim 10^{-22}\, \mathrm{eV}}$, with a de Broglie wavelength $\lambda \sim 1 \,\mathrm{kpc}$ in typical galactic potentials. Such `fuzzy' dark matter (FDM) behaves like cold dark matter…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-01-28 Ben Bar-Or , Jean-Baptiste Fouvry , Scott Tremaine

We use observations of ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) galaxies to constrain the particle mass of ultra-light dark matter. Potential fluctuations created by wave interference in virialized "fuzzy" dark matter (FDM) halos dynamically heat stellar…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-03-22 Neal Dalal , Andrey Kravtsov

Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM), motivated by string theory, has recently become a hot candidate for dark matter. The rest mass of FDM is believed to be $\sim 10^{-22}$eV and the corresponding de-Broglie wave length is $\sim 1$kpc. Therefore, the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-08 Jiajun Zhang , Hantao Liu , Ming-Chung Chu

The nature of dark matter remains a central question in cosmology, with fuzzy dark matter (FDM) models offering a compelling alternative to the cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm. We explore FDM scenarios by performing 21-cm simulations across…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-03 Bahareh Soleimanpour Salmasi , S. Mobina Hosseini

AI super-resolution, combining deep learning and N-body simulations has been shown to successfully reproduce the large scale structure and halo abundances in the Lambda Cold Dark Matter cosmological model. Here, we extend its use to models…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-16 Meris Sipp , Patrick LaChance , Rupert Croft , Yueying Ni , Tiziana Di Matteo

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

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

We investigate the dynamical friction (DF) acting on circularly-moving perturbers in fuzzy dark matter (FDM) backgrounds. After condensation, FDM is described by a single wave function satisfying a Schr\"odinger-Poisson equation. An…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-25 Robin Buehler , Vincent Desjacques

We present an overview of scenarios where the observed Dark Matter (DM) abundance consists of Feebly Interacting Massive Particles (FIMPs), produced non-thermally by the so-called freeze-in mechanism. In contrast to the usual freeze-out…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-22 Nicolás Bernal , Matti Heikinheimo , Tommi Tenkanen , Kimmo Tuominen , Ville Vaskonen

We study how tidal streams from globular clusters may be used to constrain the mass of ultra-light dark matter particles, called `fuzzy' dark matter (FDM). A general feature of FDM models is the presence of ubiquitous density fluctuations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-31 Neal Dalal , Jo Bovy , Lam Hui , Xinyu Li

An intriguing alternative to cold dark matter (CDM) is that the dark matter is a light ( $m \sim 10^{-22}$ eV) boson having a de Broglie wavelength $\lambda \sim 1$ kpc, often called fuzzy dark matter (FDM). We describe the arguments from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-03-08 Lam Hui , Jeremiah P. Ostriker , Scott Tremaine , Edward Witten

Ultralight bosonic dark matter called fuzzy dark matter (FDM) has attracted much attention as an alternative to the cold dark matter. An intriguing feature of the FDM model is the presence of a soliton core, a stable dense core formed at…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Atsushi Taruya , Shohei Saga

We investigate Lyman-alpha forest flux statistics in mixed fuzzy dark matter (FDM) and cold dark matter (CDM) cosmologies using the Fluctuating Gunn-Peterson Approximation (FGPA) applied to hybrid Schr\"odinger-Poisson and N-body…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-08 Yourong Frank Wang

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is a compelling candidate for dark matter, offering a natural explanation for the structure of diffuse low-mass haloes. However, the canonical FDM model with a mass of $10^{-22}~{\rm eV}$ encounters challenges in…

Fuzzy dark matter (FDM) is a well motivated candidate for dark matter (DM) as its tiny mass and large de-Broglie wavelength suppress small-scale matter fluctuations, thereby solving some of the small-scale discrepancies in $\Lambda$CDM.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 Jordan Flitter , Ely D. Kovetz

The one-parameter fuzzy dark matter (FDM) model has faced increasingly stringent constraints from both Lyman-$\alpha$ forest observations and local measurements of dwarf galaxies. A natural extension to mitigate these limits is the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-19 Yi Zhao , Yu-Ming Yang , Xiao-Jun Bi , Peng-Fei Yin

Dark matter (DM) remains undetected, and developing theoretical models such as the promising perfect fluid dark matter (PFDM) is a key challenge in modern cosmology. In this work, we investigate the quantum characteristics of PFDM by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-23 Shu-Min Wu , Yu-Xuan Wang , Si-Han Shang , Wentao Liu

The fuzzy dark matter (FDM) model treats DM as a bosonic field with astrophysically large de Broglie wavelength. A striking feature of this model is $\mathcal{O}(1)$ fluctuations in the dark matter density on time scales which are shorter…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 David J. E. Marsh , Jens C. Niemeyer

Wave or fuzzy dark matter produced with high momenta behaves in many ways like hot particle dark matter while also possessing seemingly different phenomenology due to wave interference. We develop wave perturbation theory to show that white…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-08 Rayne Liu , Wayne Hu , Huangyu Xiao

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…

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