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Self-gravitating Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) have been proposed in various astrophysical contexts, including Bose-stars and BEC dark matter halos. These systems are described by a combination of the Gross-Pitaevskii and Poisson…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-08-16 Viktor T. Toth

The possibility that dark matter, whose existence is inferred from the study of the galactic rotation curves, and from the mass deficit in galaxy clusters, can be in a form of a Bose-Einstein Condensate, has been extensively investigated…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-01 Tiberiu Harko , Francisco S. N. Lobo

We consider the effects of an uncorrelated random potential on the properties of Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) dark matter halos, which acts as a source of disorder, and which is added as a new term in the Gross-Pitaevskii equation,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-05-18 Tiberiu Harko , Eniko J. Madarassy

We confront a non-relativistic Bose--Einstein Condensate (BEC) model of light bosons interacting gravitationally either through a Newtonian or a Yukawa potential with the observed rotational curves of $12$ dwarf galaxies. The baryonic…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-14 Emma Kun , Zoltán Keresztes , Saurya Das , László Á. Gergely

The nature of one of the fundamental components of the Universe, the dark matter, is still unknown. One interesting possibility is that dark matter could exist in the form of a self-interacting Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC). The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-09-03 Maria Crăciun , Tiberiu Harko

Using recently developed nonrelativistic numerical simulation code, we investigate the stability properties of compact astrophysical objects that may be formed due to the Bose-Einstein condensation of dark matter. Once the temperature of a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-05 Eniko J. M. Madarassy , Viktor T. Toth

We analyze the rotation curves that correspond to a Bose--Einstein Condensate (BEC) type halo surrounding a Schwarzschild--type black hole to confront predictions of the model upon observations of galaxy rotation curves. We model the halo…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-27 Elías Castellanos , Celia Escamilla-Rivera , Jorge Mastache

Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) confined on shell-shaped surfaces have been proposed as a platform for exploring many nontrivial quantum phenomena on curved spaces. However, as the shell-shaped trapping potential generated with the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-12-21 Fan Jia , Zerong Huang , Liyuan Qiu , Rongzi Zhou , Yangqian Yan , Dajun Wang

In the present work, we analyze the structural configuration of a collection of generic non-relativistic bosons forming a gravitational bound Bose-Einstein condensate that we interpreted as a non-relativistic boson star. We prove that the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-08 Elías Castellanos , Guillermo Chacón-Acosta , Jorge Mastache

We completed the development of simulation code that is designed to study the behavior of a conjectured dark matter galactic halo that is in the form of a Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC). The BEC is described by the Gross-Pitaevskii…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2013-02-19 Eniko J. M. Madarassy , Viktor T. Toth

We study the properties of Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) systems consisting of two scalars, focusing on both the case where the BEC is stellar scale as well as the case when it is galactic scale. After studying the stability of such…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-08 Huai-Ke Guo , Kuver Sinha , Chen Sun , Joshua Swaim , Daniel Vagie

We investigate neutron stars admixed with dark matter (DM) in the form of a finite-temperature Bos-Einstein condensate (BEC) within a general relativistic two-fluid framework in which the nuclear and dark components interact only…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-13 Samanwaya Mukherjee , P. S. Aswathi , Chiranjeeb Singha , Apratim Ganguly

In this paper, the viscous cosmological dynamics are studied in the presence of dark matter Bose-Einstein Condensation (BEC) by curved-FRW background. For this purpose, we use the BEC regime rather than the normal dark matter (the cold dark…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-11-24 E. Mahichi , Alireza Amani , M. A. Ramzanpour

We investigate a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) as a gravitational wave detector, and study its sensitivity by optimizing the properties of the condensate and the measurement duration. We show that detecting kilohertz gravitational waves is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Matthew P. G. Robbins , Niayesh Afshordi , Robert B. Mann

Recently, the experimental realization of a Kapitza potential in a Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) has been reported for the first time in literature, motivating further theoretical investigations of such system. At the same time, in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-19 Itauany do Nascimento Barroso , Hermano Velten

We consider a BEC of rigid rotor molecules confined to quasi-2d through harmonic trapping. The molecules are subjected to an external electric field which polarizes the gas, and the molecules interact via dipole-dipole interactions. We…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-06-07 Joseph C. Smith , Seth T. Rittenhouse , Ryan M. Wilson , Brandon M. Peden

Rotation curves of spiral galaxies are fundamental tools in the study of dark matter. Here we test the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) dark matter model against rotation curve data of High and Low Surface Brightness (HSB and LSB) galaxies,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-12-23 Marek Dwornik , Zoltán Keresztes , László Á. Gergely

We investigate the collective mode of a self-gravitating Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) described by the Gross-Pitaevskii-Poisson (GPP) equations. The self-gravitating BEC has garnered considerable attention in cosmology and astrophysics,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-10-03 Kenta Asakawa , Hideki Ishihara , Makoto Tsubota

Analogue models for gravity intend to provide a framework where matter and gravity, as well as their intertwined dynamics, emerge from degrees of freedom that have a priori nothing to do with what we call gravity or matter. Bose Einstein…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-12-03 Florian Girelli , Stefano Liberati , Lorenzo Sindoni

We propose a precise test of two fundamental gravitational constants using a detector concept that exploits the dynamics of quantum phononic excitations in a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), operable at the scale of tabletop…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Hector A. Fernandez-Melendez , Alexander Belyaev , Vahe Gurzadyan , Ivette Fuentes