Speaker
Dr
Erik Lentz
(University of Goettingen)
Description
It was recently shown that axion dark matter, as a highly-correlated Bose fluid, contains extra-classical physics on super-de Broglie and cosmological length scales. The extra-classical physics comes in the form of an exchange-correlation interaction, induced by the constraints of symmetric particle exchange and inter-axion correlations from self-gravitation. Exchange-correlation physics creates opportunities for axion dark matter to form cosmological structures unique from standard cold dark matter. This talk presents our most recent results in studying axion structure formation with exchange-correlation interactions, including N-body simulations of full collapse and virialization of isolated halos. Novel structures induced by exchange-correlation interactions are found to be created in even the most violent collapses. Applications to observation and axion search efforts are also discussed.
Primary author
Dr
Erik Lentz
(University of Goettingen)
Co-authors
Dr
Leslie Rosenberg
(University of Washington)
Dr
Thomas Quinn
(University of Washington)
