Abstract

ABSTRACTWe show that fuzzy dark matter haloes exhibit spatial differentiation in the coherence of the field configuration, ranging from completely coherent in the central solitonic core to incoherent outside it, with a significant drop of the dimensionless phase-space density with increasing radius. The core is a pure condensate, overlapping perfectly with the Penrose-Onsager mode corresponding to the largest eigenvalue of the one-particle density matrix. The virialized outer halo exhibits no clear coherence as a whole upon radial and temporal averaging but can be described as a collection of local, short-lived quasi-condensate lumps, exhibiting suppressed fluctuations, which can be identified with the structures commonly referred to as granules. These localized regions are separated by vortices that form a dynamical web, inhibiting phase coherence across the entire halo. We further examine the core oscillations, finding that they are accurately described by two time-dependent parameters characterizing the size of the core, rc(t), and a crossover region, rt(t). For the haloes in our merger simulations, this feature is reflected in the (anti-)correlated oscillation of the peak value of the density power-spectrum. The halo’s turbulent vortex tangle appears to reach a quasi-equilibrium state over probed time-scales, with the incompressible component of the kinetic energy exhibiting a characteristic k−3 tail in its spectrum, indicative of a ρ ∼ r2 density profile around the quantum vortex cores. Comparison of the peak wavenumbers in the corresponding power-spectra shows the inter-vortex spacing and the granule length scale in the outer halo to be very similar and slightly above the core size.

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