Is the Conventional Picture of Coherence Time Complete? Dark Matter Recoherence
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| author | Paranjape, Chaitanya Perez, Gilad Ratzinger, Wolfram Sankaranarayanan, Somasundaram |
| author_facet | Paranjape, Chaitanya Perez, Gilad Ratzinger, Wolfram Sankaranarayanan, Somasundaram |
| contents | The local solar gravitational potential forms a basin for ultralight dark matter (ULDM), with discrete energy levels. Even if barely populated, it introduces a new characteristic timescale in DM dynamics. This necessitates a generalization of the notion of coherence time. We find that, at long times, the phenomenon of recoherence emerges, whereby a subcomponent of ULDM exhibits a formally divergent coherence time. The fact that this generalized coherence time can significantly exceed the naive estimate implies an enhanced sensitivity for dark matter searches that accumulate data over extended observation periods. |
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| spellingShingle | Is the Conventional Picture of Coherence Time Complete? Dark Matter Recoherence Paranjape, Chaitanya Perez, Gilad Ratzinger, Wolfram Sankaranarayanan, Somasundaram High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Quantum Physics The local solar gravitational potential forms a basin for ultralight dark matter (ULDM), with discrete energy levels. Even if barely populated, it introduces a new characteristic timescale in DM dynamics. This necessitates a generalization of the notion of coherence time. We find that, at long times, the phenomenon of recoherence emerges, whereby a subcomponent of ULDM exhibits a formally divergent coherence time. The fact that this generalized coherence time can significantly exceed the naive estimate implies an enhanced sensitivity for dark matter searches that accumulate data over extended observation periods. |
| title | Is the Conventional Picture of Coherence Time Complete? Dark Matter Recoherence |
| topic | High Energy Physics - Phenomenology Solar and Stellar Astrophysics Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00955 |