Coherent and Incoherent Dynamics of Fuzzy Dark Matter

Explore a comprehensive physics lecture examining Fuzzy Dark Matter (FDM) as an alternative to Cold Dark Matter, delivered by Dr. Gerasimos Rigopoulos from Newcastle University's School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics. Discover the cosmological foundations of FDM and understand its relationship to Bose-Einstein condensates in cold atom systems. Learn about the effects of non-zero self-coupling on soliton formation in halo centers, and examine a new theoretical framework for mixed condensed and non-condensed bosonic dark matter. Investigate how rotation curves from dark matter dominated galaxies in the Sparc database provide evidence for the necessity of repulsive quartic self-interaction, helping determine both the boson's mass and self-coupling properties.