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Fuzzy Cold Dark Matter: The Wave Properties of Ultralight Particles
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Abstract
Cold dark matter (CDM) models predict small-scale structure in excess of observations
of the cores and abundance of dwarf galaxies. These problems might be solved, and
the virtues of CDM models retained, even without postulating ad hoc dark matter particle
or field interactions, if the dark matter is composed of ultralight scalar particles
(m approximately 10(-22) eV), initially in a (cold) Bose-Einstein condensate, similar
to axion dark matter models. The wave properties of the dark matter stabilize gravitational
collapse, providing halo cores and sharply suppressing small-scale linear power.