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- Title
Nonrelativistic Boson stars as N-body quantum systems.
- Authors
Castellanos, Elías; Chacón-Acosta, Guillermo; Mastache, Jorge
- Abstract
In this work, we show that the structural configuration of a collection of generic nonrelativistic bosons forming a gravitationally bound Bose–Einstein condensate can be interpreted as a nonrelativistic boson star. With the approach followed in this work, we can analyze with a concise and straightforward procedure the equilibrium properties of nonrelativistic boson stars viewed as a Bose–Einstein condensate. The system's behavior is obtained by analyzing its fundamental constituent properties, i.e. the associated single-particle properties. Additionally, we show that by expressing the corresponding Newtonian gravitational potential, under certain circumstances, as a harmonic oscillator potential one, we can describe the conditions in which the nonrelativistic boson star can form equilibrium configurations. In order to analyze the boson star's structural configuration, we employ four different ansätzes commonly used in the literature. These ansätzes allow us to compare the cloud's structural properties of the boson star, which leads us to obtain several gravitational equilibrium configurations from compact objects matching the size of typical stars to gigantic systems comparable to the size of galaxy cluster dark matter halos. Finally, we show that these ansätzes predict, qualitatively speaking, the same structural and gravitational equilibrium configurations for different values of the parameters involved.
- Subjects
BOSE-Einstein condensation; BOSONS; ISOSTASY; GALAXY clusters; HARMONIC oscillators; GRAVITATIONAL potential; NONRELATIVISTIC quantum mechanics
- Publication
International Journal of Modern Physics D: Gravitation, Astrophysics & Cosmology, 2022, Vol 31, Issue 7, p1
- ISSN
0218-2718
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S021827182250050X