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20202026
most citedNew insights into the formation and growth of boson stars in dark matter halos

123 citations · 159 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

astro-ph.CO2026

Core-Halo Mass Relation in Cosmological Vector Dark Matter

Jiajun Chen, Yonghao Yao, David J. E. Marsh

We study the cosmological core-halo relation in vector dark matter using three-component Schrödinger-Poisson simulations. Starting from cosmological vector-field initial conditions…

hep-ph2026

Spin Polarization of Proca Stars Formed by Gravitational Bose--Einstein Condensation

Jiajun Chen

We study the internal spin polarization of Proca stars formed by gravitational Bose--Einstein condensation of a three-component nonrelativistic vector field. In idealized periodic-…

hep-ph2026

Yukawa-Screened Bose-Star Condensation

Jiajun Chen

We study Bose-star formation in a Yukawa-Schrödinger-Poisson (YSP) system. A finite interaction range suppresses the infrared kinetic relaxation responsible for Bose-star condensat…

hep-ph2025

Self-Interaction Controls Vortex Scale in Soliton Mergers

Yuanyuan Zeng, Bokai Zhang, Jiajun Chen

This study investigates the impact of self-interaction strength on the formation and scale of turbulent vortex structures during the merger of Bose stars, using numerical simulatio…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

Vector Dark Matter Halo: From Polarization Dynamics to Direct Detection

Jiajun Chen, Le Hoang Nguyen, David J. E. Marsh

This study investigates the characteristic polarization formation and evolution of vector dark matter (VDM) in the outer halo of galaxies. By employing numerical simulations, we an…

hep-ph2024

Novel structures and collapse of solitons in nonminimally gravitating dark matter halos

Jiajun Chen, Hong-Yi Zhang

Ultralight dark matter simulations predict condensates with short-range correlation, known as solitons or boson stars, at the centers of dark matter halos. This paper investigates…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1 cited

Gravitational Bose-Einstein Condensation of Vector/Hidden Photon Dark Matter

Jiajun Chen, Xiaolong Du, Mingzhen Zhou +2

We study the gravitational Bose-Einstein condensation of a massive vector field in the kinetic regime and the non-relativistic limit using non-linear dynamical numerical methods. G…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 34 cited

Relaxation times for Bose-Einstein condensation by self-interaction and gravity

Jiajun Chen, Xiaolong Du, Erik Lentz +1

In this paper, we study the Bose-Einstein condensation of a scalar field with an attractive self-interaction, with or without gravitational interactions. We confirm through full dy…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 123 cited

New insights into the formation and growth of boson stars in dark matter halos

Jiajun Chen, Xiaolong Du, Erik W. Lentz +2

This work studies the formation and growth of boson stars and their surrounding miniclusters by gravitational condensation using non-linear dynamical numerical methods. Fully dynam…