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The dense environment of our Galactic Center (GC) offers a unique laboratory for probing ultralight dark matter (ULDM). We explore the prospect of detecting a scalar ULDM field through its effects on the orbital dynamics of S-stars around…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-10 Jiang-Chuan Yu , Yan Cao , Lijing Shao

Among several dark matter candidates, bosonic ultralight (sub meV) dark matter is well motivated because it could couple to the Standard Model (SM) and induce new forces. Previous MICROSCOPE and Eot Wash torsion experiments have achieved…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-09 Rui Li , Shaochun Lin , Liang Zhang , Changkui Duan , Pu Huang , Jiangfeng Du

The local solar gravitational potential forms a basin for ultralight dark matter (ULDM), with discrete energy levels. Even if barely populated, it introduces a new characteristic timescale in DM dynamics. This necessitates a generalization…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-15 Chaitanya Paranjape , Gilad Perez , Wolfram Ratzinger , Somasundaram Sankaranarayanan

Couplings between light scalar dark matter (DM) and neutrinos induce a perturbation to the neutrino mass matrix. If the DM oscillation period is smaller than ten minutes (or equivalently, the DM particle is heavier than $0.69\times10^{-17}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-30 Jiajun Liao , Danny Marfatia , Kerry Whisnant

We simulate the gravitational dynamics of a massive object interacting with Ultralight / Fuzzy Dark Matter (ULDM/FDM), non-relativistic quantum matter described by the Schrodinger-Poisson equation. We first consider a point mass moving in a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-06 Yourong Wang , Richard Easther

We consider the scenario where dark matter (DM) is represented by an ultra-light classical scalar field performing coherent periodic oscillations. We point out that such DM perturbs the dynamics of binary systems either through its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-24 Diego Blas , Diana Lopez Nacir , Sergey Sibiryakov

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) has opened a new window to explore the dark Universe. Ultralight dark matter (ULDM), an attractive candidate for dark matter, might induce monochromatic signals in gravitational-wave (GW) laser…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-21 Yue-Hui Yao , Tingyuan Jiang , Wenyan Ren , Di Chen , Yong Tang , Yu-Feng Zhou

Ultralight dark matter (ULDM) is an interesting alternative to the cold dark matter (CDM) paradigm. Due to the extremely low mass of the constituent particle ($\sim 10^{-22}$ eV), ULDM can exhibit quantum effects up to kiloparsec scales. In…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-18 Emily Kendall , Mateja Gosenca , Richard Easther

Scalar ultralight dark matter (ULDM) is uniquely accessible to tabletop experiments such as clocks and interferometers, and its search has been the focus of a vast experimental effort. However, the scalar ULDM mass is not protected from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-24 Cédric Delaunay , Michael Geller , Zamir Heller-Algazi , Gilad Perez , Konstantin Springmann

Ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) refers to a class of theories, including ultra-light axions, in which particles with mass $m_{\psi} < 10^{-20}\, \rm{eV}$ comprise a significant fraction of the dark matter. A galactic scale de Broglie…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-28 Alexander Laroche , Daniel Gilman , Xinyu Li , Jo Bovy , Xiaolong Du

Ultralight dark matter (ULDM) model is a leading dark matter candidate that arises naturally in extensions of the Standard Model. In the Galactic Center, ULDM manifests as dense hydrogen-like boson clouds or self-gravitating soliton cores.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-28 Jiang-Chuan Yu , Yan Cao , Zexin Hu , Lijing Shao

In recent years, numerous experiments have been proposed and conducted to search for ultralight bosonic dark matter (ULBDM). Signals from ULBDM in such experiments are characterized by extremely narrow spectral widths. A near-optimal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-07 Soichiro Morisaki , Jun'ya Kume , Takumi Fujimori , Yuta Michimura

Measurements of differential length oscillations of Fabry-Perot cavities provide a sensitive and promising approach to searching for scalar ultralight dark matter (ULDM). The initial demonstration sets direct lower bounds that are one to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-23 Tejas Deshpande , Andra Ionescu , Nicholas Miller , Zhiyuan Wang , Gerald Gabrielse , Andrew A. Geraci , Tim Kovachy

Dark matter (DM) can consist of very light bosons behaving as a classical scalar field that experiences coherent oscillations. The presence of this DM field would perturb the dynamics of celestial bodies, either because the (oscillating) DM…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-18 Diego Blas , Diana López Nacir , Sergey Sibiryakov

Atom interferometers offer promising new avenues for detecting ultra-light dark matter (ULDM). The exceptional sensitivity of atom interferometers to fluctuations in the local gravitational potential exposes them to sources of noise from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-22 John Carlton , Christopher McCabe

We study synchronization properties of general uncoupled limit-cycle oscillators driven by common and independent Gaussian white noises. Using phase reduction and averaging methods, we analytically derive the stationary distribution of the…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Hiroya Nakao , Kensuke Arai , Yoji Kawamura

Ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) is a compelling candidate for cosmological dark matter. If ULDM interacts with ordinary matter, it can induce measurable, characteristic signals in pulsar-timing data because it causes the orbits of pulsars in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-16 Pavel Kůs , Diana López Nacir , Federico R. Urban

Dark matter may have been relativistic and collisional until relatively late times and become cold and collisionless after a phase transition before the matter-radiation equality of the standard $\Lambda$CDM cosmology. We show that such a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-06 Anirban Das , Basudeb Dasgupta , Rishi Khatri

Atom interferometers offer exceptional sensitivity to ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) by precisely measuring effects on atomic systems. Previous studies have demonstrated their capability to detect scalar and vector ULDM candidates, yet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-23 Diego Blas , John Carlton , Christopher McCabe

We propose to search for (ultra)-light scalar dark matter (DM) using synchrotron radiation based M\"ossbauer spectroscopy technique. Such DM induces temporal variation in various fundamental constants, which in turn causes time modulation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-12 Abhishek Banerjee