Rotating Q-Balls
ORAL
Abstract
Q-balls are theoretical particles and proposed dark matter candidates. Surprisingly, all known rotating Q-balls exhibit quantized angular momentum, despite being a classical system. We demonstrate a novel method of deriving Q-Ball solutions, and apply this method to rediscover rotating Q-Ball solutions. For such solutions, we show the angular momentum is quantized. In this talk, I will elucidate quantized angular momentum in these classical systems.
* National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY-2210067
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Presenters
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Benjamin DeVries
Brigham Young University
Authors
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Benjamin DeVries
Brigham Young University
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Christopher Verhaaren
Brigham Young University
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Fabrizio Vassallo
University of Wisconsin-Madison