3 papers
astro-ph.CO2025
Universal lower bound on the axion decay constant from free streaming effects
Keisuke Harigaya, Wayne Hu, Rayne Liu +1
We show that enhancement of the axion relic abundance compared to the standard misalignment contribution generically leads to the production of nonzero momentum axion modes, result…
astro-ph.CO2025
Interference with Gravitational Instability: Hot and Fuzzy Dark Matter
Rayne Liu, Wayne Hu, Huangyu Xiao
Wave or fuzzy dark matter produced with high momenta behaves in many ways like hot particle dark matter while also possessing seemingly different phenomenology due to wave interfer…
astro-ph.CO2025
Wave Interference in Self-Interacting Fuzzy Dark Matter
Christian Capanelli, Wayne Hu, Evan McDonough
In the Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) scenario, the dark matter is composed of an ultra-light scalar field with coherence length and wave interference on astrophysical scales. Scalar fiel…