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We assume dark matter to be a cosmological self-gravitating Bose-Einstein condensate of non-relativistic ultralight scalar particles with competing gravitational and repulsive contact interactions and investigate the observational…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-19 V. Delgado , A. Muñoz Mateo

In scenarios where the Peccei-Quinn symmetry breaks after inflation, small-scale axion inhomogeneities may gravitationally collapse into bound structures. The evolution of these systems is typically modeled through cosmological perturbation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-13 Bryan Cordero-Patino , Álvaro Duenas-Vidal , Jorge Segovia

We investigate the structure of self-gravitating polytropic stellar systems. We present a method which allows to obtain approximate analytical solutions, $\psi_{n+\epsilon}({\bf x})$, of the nonlinear Poisson equation with the polytropic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Mikhail V. Medvedev , George Rybicki

Equilibrium configurations for a self-gravitating scalar field with self-interaction are constructed. The corresponding Schr\"odinger-Poisson (SP) system is solved using finite differences assuming spherical symmetry. It is shown that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 F. Siddhartha Guzman , L. Arturo Urena-Lopez

In this paper we consider the Dvali and G\'omez assumption that the end state of a gravitational collapse is a Bose-Einstein condensate of gravitons. We then construct the two Gross-Pitaevskii equations for a static and spherically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-05-02 Francesc Cunillera , Cristiano Germani

We obtain from the first principles a general-relativistic Keplerian rotation law for self-gravitating disks around spinning black holes. This is an extension of a former rotation law that was designed mainly for toroids around spin-less…

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We investigate the dynamics of self-gravitating, spherically-symmetric distributions of fluid through numerical means. In particular, systems involving neutron star models driven far from equilibrium in the strong-field regime of general…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Scott C. Noble

In the supercritical range of the polytropic indices $\gamma\in(1,\frac43)$ we show the existence of smooth radially symmetric self-similar solutions to the gravitational Euler-Poisson system. These solutions exhibit gravitational collapse…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Yan Guo , Mahir Hadzic , Juhi Jang , Matthew Schrecker

Dynamics and collapse of collisionless self-gravitating systems is described by the coupled collisionless Boltzmann and Poisson equations derived from $f(R)$-gravity in the weak field approximation. Specifically, we describe a system at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Capozziello , M. De Laurentis , I. De Martino , M. Formisano , S. D. Odintsov

We introduce a dissipation term in the Gross-Pitaevskii equation that describes the stimulated relaxation of condensed bosons due to scattering with a different type of particles. This situation applies to Bose-Einstein condensates of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-08-02 Michiel Wouters , Vincenzo Savona

We search for self-gravitating oscillating field lumps (pulsons) in the scalar model with logarithmic potential. With the use of a Krylov-Bogoliubov-type asymptotic expansion in the gravitational constant, the pulson solutions of the…

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We analyse the implications of superfluid turbulence for neutron star physics. We begin by extending our previous results for the mutual friction force for a straight vortex array to account for the self-induced flow which arises when the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-11-16 N. Andersson , T. Sidery , G. L. Comer

We show that the dark soliton of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE) that describes the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) density of a system of weakly repulsive bosons, also describes that of a system of strongly repulsive hard core bosons at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Indubala I Satija , Radha Balakrishnan

A new final state of gravitational collapse is proposed. By extending the concept of Bose-Einstein condensation to gravitational systems, a cold, dark, compact object with an interior de Sitter condensate $p_{_V} = -\rho_{_V}$ and an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-19 Pawel O. Mazur , Emil Mottola

This review focuses on applications of the ideas of superfluidity and superconductivity in neutron stars in a broader context, ranging from the microphysics of pairing in nucleonic superfluids to macroscopic manifestations of superfluidity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-06 Brynmor Haskell , Armen Sedrakian

Based on the GW dispersion relation raised in [1], we investigate the possible reflection of gravitational wave (GW) by superfluidity (SF) in the neutron star, provided its high density and dissipationless properties. Following this…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-20 Yunjing Gao , Jiahao Yang , Zhenyu Zhu , Yosuke Mizuno , Jianda Wu

The problem of a condensate of a relativistic neutral vector boson gas constituted of particles bearing a magnetic moment is discussed. Such a vector boson system is expected to be formed either by parallel spin-pairing of neutrons in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-16 H. Pérez Rojas , A. Pérez Martínez , H. J. Mosquera Cuesta

Recently, a rich variety of the micro-phenomena of the superfluid passing an obstacle has been observed in the binary mixture of rotating Bose--Einstein condensates (BECs). Among such phenomena, the interaction of dark--bright solitons is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 Qi Gao , Chiun-Chang Lee , Tai-Chia Lin

We present a comprehensive study of gravitational exciton dynamics arising from higher-dimensional theories, with a focus on establishing a robust effective framework that incorporates self-interactions, higher-derivative corrections, and…

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