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PHYSICAL REVIEW D
Volume 62, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.62.043519
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We numerically study the evolution of a self-gravitating nonequilibrium Bose gas contained in a fixed volume. We find that, even when the volume is small enough to prevent collisionless instability, a compact phase-correlated object (a Bose star) can form, by gravity alone, from a disordered initial state. We interpret this effect and the associated growth of the density contrast as consequences of a new type of gravitational instability-a nonlinear instability due to a stimulated gravitational scattering of the bosons. Our results imply that the formation of Bose stars, in regions that have fallen out of Hubble expansion, may be a quite general phenomenon, not requiring a large preexisting correlation length or any short-range interactions.
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