Do dark matter axions form a condensate with long-range correlation?

Recently there has been significant interest in the claim that dark matter axions gravitationally thermalize and form a Bose-Einstein condensate with a cosmologically long-range correlation. This has potential consequences for galactic scale observations. Here we critically examine this claim. We po...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Guth, Alan, Hertzberg, Mark Peter, Prescod-Weinstein, Chanda
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/99961
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6742-4532
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3850-3688
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3802-5206