Interference pattern in the collision of structures in the BEC dark matter model: comparison with fluids

TL;DR

This paper investigates the unique interference patterns formed during the collision of structures in the Bose-Einstein condensate dark matter model, contrasting it with fluid dark matter models, to identify potential observational signatures.

Contribution

It demonstrates that interference pattern formation is a distinctive feature of BEC dark matter during structure collisions, unlike fluid dark matter models.

Findings

Interference patterns form in BEC dark matter collisions.

Fluid dark matter models do not produce interference patterns.

Interference patterns could serve as observational signatures of BEC dark matter.

Abstract

In order to explore nonlinear effects on the distribution of matter during collisions within the Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) dark matter model driven by the Schr\"odinger-Poisson system of equations, we study the head-on collision of structures and focus on the interference pattern formation in the density of matter during the collision process. We explore the possibility that the collision of two structures of fluid matter modeled with an ideal gas equation of state also forms interference patterns and found a negative result. Given that a fluid is the most common flavor of dark matter models, we conclude that one fingerprint of the BEC dark matter model is the pattern formation in the density during a collision of structures.