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The cold dark matter model successfully describes the Universe on large scales, yet faces challenges at sub-galactic scales. Ultralight dark matter (ULDM), with particle masses around $10^{-22} \mathrm{eV}$, offers a promising solution to…

Ultralight dark matter is expected to induce oscillations of nuclear parameters. These oscillations are characterized by extremely weak couplings or high suppression scales, with the Planck scale - the characteristic scale of quantum…

Light offers a route to engineer new phases of matter far from equilibrium, including transient states suggestive of superconducting, charge-ordered, and excitonic ordering behavior. Yet it remains unclear how optical excitation can…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-09 Mattia Moroder , Sebastian Paeckel , Matteo Mitrano , John Sous

Synchronization is a widespread phenomenon observed in physical, biological, and social networks, which persists even under the influence of strong noise. Previous research on oscillators subject to common noise has shown that noise can…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2021-06-02 Zachary G. Nicolaou , Michael Sebek , Istvan Z. Kiss , Adilson E. Motter

While the search for dark matter remains a central focus of modern astrophysics and high-energy physics, neutron stars provide natural laboratories in which the interaction between dark matter and baryonic matter can be studied. In this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-15 Claudio Lazarte , Nicolas Sanchis-Gual , José A. Font

The nature of dark matter (DM) and its interaction with the Standard Model (SM) is one of the biggest open questions in physics nowadays. The vast majority of theoretically-motivated Ultralight-DM (ULDM) models predict that ULDM couples…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Eric Madge , Gilad Perez , Ziv Meir

Dark photons, which can kinetically mix with ordinary photons, represent the simplest extension to the standard model. Detecting their oscillations with visible photons could provide crucial insights into the nature of dark matter and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-30 Yu-Xin Tian , Wenyu Wang , Wen-Na Yang , Bin Zhu

We study scenarios in which ultralight dark matter (ULDM) causes oscillations of the Cabibbo--Kobayashi--Maskawa (CKM) matrix elements, considering two frameworks. The first, previously proposed in the literature, employs the Nelson--Barr…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-26 Prisco Lo Chiatto , Babette Döbrich , Gilad Perez

Ultra-light bosons, naturally appearing in well-motivated extensions to the Standard Model, can constitute all the dark matter. Models with particle mass close to the smallest phenomenologically allowed exhibit coherent field configurations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-11 Diego Blas , Silvia Gasparotto , Rodrigo Vicente

We suggest that an interplay between microscopic and macroscopic physics can give rise to dark matter (DM) whose interactions with the visible sector fundamentally undulate in time, independent of celestial dynamics. A concrete example is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-30 Joe Davighi , Matthew McCullough , Joseph Tooby-Smith

Nonlinear oscillators can mutually synchronize when they are driven by common external impulses. Two important scenarios are (i) synchronization resulting from phase locking of each oscillator to regular periodic impulses and (ii)…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2015-05-19 Shigefumi Hata , Takeaki Shimokawa , Kensuke Arai , Hiroya Nakao

Synchronization of many coupled oscillators is widely found in nature and has the potential to revolutionize timing technologies. Here we demonstrate synchronization in arrays of silicon nitride micromechanical oscillators coupled purely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-21 Mian Zhang , Shreyas Shah , Jaime Cardenas , Michal Lipson

Motivated by the collisionless cold dark matter small scale structure problem, we propose an asymmetric dark matter model where dark matter particle interact with each other via a massive dark gauge boson. This model easily avoid the strong…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-31 Zien Chen , Kairui Ye , Mengchao Zhang

Numerous theories extending beyond the standard model of particle physics predict the existence of bosons that could constitute the dark matter (DM) permeating the universe. In the standard halo model (SHM) of galactic dark matter the…

We explore the imprints of fuzzy dark matter (FDM) on the redshifted 21~cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn and the Epoch of Reionization by employing the wavelet scattering transform (WST). FDM, composed of ultralight scalar particles with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-02 Hayato Shimabukuro , Shihang Liu , Bohua Li

Ultralight scalar dark matter may induce apparent oscillations of the muon mass, which may be directly probed via temporal shifts in the spectra of muonium and muonic atoms. Existing datasets and ongoing spectroscopy measurements with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-10 Yevgeny V. Stadnik

UltraLight Dark Matter (ULDM) is an axion-like dark matter candidate with an extremely small particle mass. ULDM halos consist of a spherically symmetric solitonic core and an NFW-like skirt. We simulate halo creation via soliton mergers…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-05-02 J. Luna Zagorac , Emily Kendall , Nikhil Padmanabhan , Richard Easther

In this thesis, we investigate the possibility that dark matter consists of ultra light spin-zero particles with mass $m \sim 10^{-22}\ \text{eV}$. We focus on the role of self-interactions, assuming all other non-gravitational couplings to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-01 Bihag Dave

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

The mechanism of phase synchronization between uncoupled limit-cycle oscillators induced by common external impulsive forcing is analyzed. By reducing the dynamics of the oscillator to a random phase map, it is shown that phase…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2007-06-13 H. Nakao , K. Arai , K. Nagai , Y. Tsubo , Y. Kuramoto