Cosmic structure as the quantum interference of a coherent dark wave
Abstract
A cosmological model treating dark matter as a coherent quantum wave agrees well with conventional dark-matter theory on an astronomical scale. But on smaller scales, the quantum nature of wave-like dark matter can explain dark-matter cores that are observed in dwarf galaxies, which standard theory cannot.
- Publication:
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Nature Physics
- Pub Date:
- July 2014
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1406.6586
- Bibcode:
- 2014NatPh..10..496S
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 14 pages, 8 figures. Pre-submission version. Final version has appeared in Nature Physics (http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nphys2996)