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P.le , ∼ M rk ⊙ 10 son 10 ≃ 2 Fabio Briscese: Title Suppressed Due to Excessive Length the computational effort to solve the N-body dynamics ScM is based on the hypothesis that, in the Newto- numerically. nian limit, it is possible to describe the evolution of DM 9 Thus, although the choice M 10 M⊙ in the N- by means of a ψ, such that the DM density ≃ is given by ρ = M ψ 2, where M represents the effec- body simulations is fit for purpose, it is still arbitrary. DM | | However, an indication on the plausibility of this value tive mass of DM particles. The wave function ψ obeys the comes from scalar field DM models [16]. In fact, a mas- coupled Schr¨odinger-Poisson equations (SPEs) sive and non-interacting scalar field with lagrangian den- ~2 µ 2 i~∂ ψ = ∆ψ + MV ψ , sity L = ∂µΦ∂ Φ mφ Φ forms bound DM halos [17] t − 2a(t)M (the generalization− to self-interacting| | scalar fields with (1) quartic potential has been studied in [18]). In the case ∆V =4πG ρ , of spherically symmetric scalar field configurations Φ = where V is the Newtonian potential, ρ is the energy den- exp [ im t]σ(r)/√2, the size of the halo is given by l φ sity of the universe, a(t) is a scale factor introduced to − ~ ∼ MP /σ(0) ( /mφc). From such relation it is quite evi- take into account the expansion of the universe, and ~ is a dentp that, even if M /σ(0) 1 so that l is much bigger P ≫ parameter representing an effective . The than the of DM particles, halos of Newtonian potential V is determined through the Pois- size above & 10kpc are formed only for ultralight DM par- son equation in (1). The form of the DM density used ticles. The typical orbiting velocity in the halo is v /c o ∼ to run cosmological simulations in [24,25,26,27,28,29,30, σ(0)MP , and using l 10 kpc and vo 100 km/s for 31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39] is ρ = (M ψ 2 ρ )/a(t), p ∼ ∼ −6 crit low luminosity spiral galaxies, one has σ(0)/MP 10 , | | − −23 ∼ where ρcrit is a parameter representing a comoving criti- while m 10 eV [17]. We stress that this estimate of cal density of the universe, although some authors assume m coincides∼ (in order of magnitude) with that obtained in φ ρcrit = 0, so that the SPEs reduce to the Schr¨odinger- [36,37,38,39]. Furthermore, the mass M of the halo in this Newton equations [40]. However, since we are not inter- 3 2 9 simple model is given by M σ(0)M /m 10 M⊙ ested in discussing the explicit form of the DM density, we ∼ q P φ ∼ − will use the generic expression ρ. Furthermore, here we are [17], indeed m 10 23 is an upper bound for the DM only focused on the relation between the ScM and N-body particle mass yielding∼ a lower bound for the masses of ha- simulations, and this is not related to the expansion of the los that can be realized. We mention that scalar field dark universe; thus hereafter we set a(t) = 1. matter might be useful to resolve potential small scale The SPEs can be viewed as the non-relativistic limit of problems of CDM, see [19] for an exhaustive discussion of the Klein-Gordon and Dirac equations, and their theoret- this issue. ical justification follows from the correspondence princi- Due to the huge numerical effort to solve the N-body ple that relates classical and mechanical phase- problem in realistic situations when N 1010, it would be ∼ space-distribution functions in the semiclassical limit [42]. desirable to have a simple analytical model from which it is In this case ~ coincides with the Planck constant, and M possible to extract the most important physical properties is the mass of the elementary DM particles. Numerical so- of this N-body system. An alternative is to describe the N- lutions of the SPEs point towards ultralight DM particles body dynamics statistically, by means of the phase-space of mass M 10−23 eV [36,37,38]. distribution of the bodies f(t,x,p), where the evolution of Alternatively,∼ the ScM has been introduced as a nu- f(t,x,p) is given by the Boltzmann equation. In the case merical double of the N-body description of DM at large of LSS, N is large and collisions are suppressed; moreover, scales; see e.g. [24,25,35] and references therein. In this the dynamics is only affected by the Newtonian potential case, the effective particles in the N-body system are again [20], so that the Boltzmann equation reduces to a Vlasov huge agglomerates of DM elementary particles, and there- (or collisionless Boltzmann) equation [21]. Although this fore M is huge in comparison with the mass of elementary model is simple from a conceptual point of view, there is DM particles. Moreover, the constant ~ in (1) does not no general solution of the Vlasov equation. However, the coincide with the Planck constant, nor is fixed by the N- relevant physical information can be extracted from the body problem, but it is merely a free parameter that can (n) momenta M of the distribution function. To do so, one be chosen at will. Furthermore, due to the correspondence should solve the infinitely coupled hierarchy of equations principle [42], ~ determines the phase-space resolution in (n) for the momenta M , and it turns out that the only the ScM. To ensure the match with N-body simulations coherent way to neglect higher cumulants is to neglect one must require ~/M 10−4Mpc c, so that ~ is huge in them entirely [22]; but in this case one reduces to the dust comparison with the true∼ Planck constant.· model, which we know to be inappropriate to describe It is worth to emphasize the difficulty in reconciliat- halo formation, while giving a good description of LSS at ing such huge values of M and ~ with the derivation of larger scales. the SPEs from the fundamental quantum mechanical evo- We can assume that, for our purposes, it is sufficient lution of DM particles. In fact, even though one might to study the evolution of smoothed density and velocity assume that M represents the mass of huge agglomerates fields [23]. A possibility is to use the so called Schr¨odinger of DM particles, one encounters the insurmountable prob- method (ScM), which has been proposed as numerical lem of explaining the extremely large value of ~. In fact, technique to describe the dynamics of CDM [24,25,26, since the Planck constant is fundamental, its value should 27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39]. not be affected by the Newtonian and semiclassical limits. Fabio Briscese: Title Suppressed Due to Excessive Length 3

In this paper we discuss the relation between the ScM references therein); but we want to exploit the result of and the N-body description of DM used in numerical simu- Nelson in the context of the N-body dynamics. lations [11,12,13,14,15], and we argue how the SPEs can At this point, one can ask the question of the na- be obtained as the large N limit of the Newtonian N- ture of the random field B(t) responsible for the emergent body system. This argument is valid beyond the context quantization. One of the most studied possibilities is that of LSS formation, and it implies that any Newtonian N- B(t) is the random zero-point radiation field of the elec- body system of identical bodies can be described by means tromagnetic field [44]. Another possibility, conjectured by of the SPEs, and that makes this finding of wide interest. Calogero [45], is that the random noise B(t) is the resul- For completeness, we mention that the correspondence be- tant of the gravitational interaction of the particle with tween the ScM method and the Vlasov equation has been all the other particles of the universe. In fact, apart from extensively studied, and we remand the interested reader the interaction with neighboring bodies which is not small to the existing literature; see [35] and references therein. and must be included in the potential φ, the gravitational Our staring point is the Newtonian N-body system interaction with far bodies behaves as a small background of DM agglomerates considered in [11,12,13,14,15]. We noise, and its random behavior comes from the fact that show that the dynamics of this system satisfies the hy- the classical dynamics of a N-body system is chaotic (see pothesis of the so called Nelson stochastic quantization for instance [46] for a review of classical chaos). In the con- [43] in the large N limit. That implies that the evolution text of cosmological simulations, it has been shown that of the system can be described statistically, by means of chaos appears at scales smaller than a critical transition the Schr¨odinger equation. The stochastic background re- scale 3.5Mpc/h, where h is the dimensionless Hubble sponsible for the Nelson quantization is given, as in the parameter,∼ while the dynamics appears to be nonsensitive Calogero conjecture, by the gravitational interaction be- to initial conditions (thus non-chaotic) at larger scales; see tween the N bodies, and its stochastic character is due [47] for more details. to the chaotic behavior of the N-body dynamics. What is Therefore, any particle of the N-body system experi- more, the Calogero conjecture also allows to estimate the ences a stochastic gravitational acceleration due to the rest order of magnitude of the effective Planck constant. of the system. Exploiting this idea, Calogero has shown To begin, let us discuss briefly the hypothesis of the that the order of magnitude of the induced Planck con- Nelson stochastic quantization [44], and let us consider a stant is [45] particle of mass M which moves according to the New- ton laws of motion. The further assumption is that this ~ M 5/3G1/2(N/<ρ>)1/6 , (4) particle constantly undergoes a Brownian motion with no ∼ friction, and with a diffusion coefficient ~/M inversely pro- where N and M are the number and the mass of the bod- portional to its mass M. Therefore, the trajectory of this ies, <ρ> is the average density of the system, and G the particle will be given by . Let us briefly describe how (4) can be obtained on the basis of semiquantitative arguments. The relevant quan- M x¨ = ∇φ + B(t) (2) − tities in our analysis are the dimensional parameters G, where ∇φ represents all the conservative forces, and M, and <ρ>; plus N, which of course is dimensionless. B(t) is− a random variable with zero mean, representing From these quantities we can define the unit of time T as a small random noise. Nelson has shown [43] that, un- −1/2 der these hypotheses, the motion of the particle can be T (G<ρ>) . (5) ∼ described by means of a stochastic process, and the prob- We want to estimate the characteristic time τ of the stochas- ability distribution f(x) of the particle can be expressed tic acceleration that each particle of the system undergoes as f(x) = ψ 2, in terms of a wave function ψ satisfying | | due to all the other particles. Since the N-body dynamics the Schr¨oedinger equation is chaotic, it is plausible that the characteristic frequency

2 of this motion ν 2π/τ should be a growing function of ~ ~ (3) ∼ i ∂tψ = 2M ∆ψ + φ ψ . N, and since the background gravitational noise is due to − a collective stochastic effect, it is also plausible to assume Therefore, in this picture the quantum behavior of the that ν is proportional to the square root of N, so that dynamics of the particle is not a fundamental property of the nature, but it is induced by the random field B(t). τ N −1/2 T. (6) It is necessary to note that the Nelson quantization only ∼ implies the emergence of the Schr¨oedinger equation (3), The ”quantum” of action (that is, the characteristic ac- which of course, does not encompass all the features of tion) associated with the stochastic gravitational noise is . For instance, all the properties re- obtained multiplying τ by the gravitational energy per lated to the measurement processes in quantum mechan- particle ǫ, which is estimated as ics, e.g. entanglement, have not been derived in the con- text of Nelson quantization. However, we are not inter- ǫ G(NM)2R−1N −1 GM 5/3N 2/3 <ρ>−1/3 , (7) ested in discussing the validity of the Nelson quantization ∼ ∼ as a real theory of quantum world, and we refer the reader where the length R (NM/ < ρ >)1/3 represents the interested in this problem to the literature (see [44] and average linear size of≡ the N-body system. Therefore, the 4 Fabio Briscese: Title Suppressed Due to Excessive Length effective Planck constant is obtained as ~ ǫ τ, which fi- M 2/3G1/2(N/<ρ>)1/6 obtained from (4). For instance, nally gives Eq. (4). At that point we should≡ emphasize that in the case of the Millennium simulation [11], where the this argument is not a pure dimensional analysis since, N-body problem is solved for N 1010 particles of mass 9 2 ≃ −26 3 even though the exponents of the dimensional quantities M 10 M⊙, using <ρ> 3H0 /8πG 4 10 Kg/m , ≃ −1 ≃ ≃ × in (4) are fixed by their dimensions, the dependence on the where H0 h 100 km/sMpc, with h 0.73, is the dimensionless quantity N is fixed by the assumption made Hubble constant,≃ × one has× ~ 2 1066Kgm2≃/s. This cor- in (6), which plays a fundamental role in the derivation of responds to a value ~/M 10≃−4×Mpc c in the range of val- (4). We stress that (6) can be justified in a more rigorous ues used in numerical simulations,≃ e.g.· ~/M 10−4Mpc c way, and we refer the reader to [45], where this relation in [35,37] or ~/M 10−6Mpc c in [36,38].∼ · has been derived through a more detailed analysis of the In conclusion,∼ in this paper· it has been shown that properties of the Newtonian N-body system. the dynamics of the classical Newtonian N-body system Let us come back to our gravitational N-body system. is well described in terms of the SPEs in the large N limit. Using the Calogero conjecture, we have argued that, due This is due to the stochastic quantization of the N-body to the classical gravitational interaction with all the other system induced by the random gravitational background particles, any particle in the system undergoes a stochastic produced by the N bodies, as in the Calogero conjecture. gravitational noise which plays the role of the stochastic Moreover, the emerging effective Planck constant in the random noise B(t) in (2). Thus, the dynamics of each par- SPEs can be computed by means of (4) in terms of the ticle of the system is given in terms of a wavefunction ψ parameters of the corresponding N-body system. solution of (3), where ~ is given by (4). At that point, we When applied to LSS formation, this finding gives a can express the wavefunction of the entire system using further argument in support of the validity of the Schr¨odinger the Hartree-Fock approximation, so that the number den- method as numerical double of the N-body simulations of sity of the N-body system will be n(x) = N ψ 2. This is DM dynamics at large cosmological scales [11,12,13,14, the analog of the derivation of the famous Gross-Pitaevskii| | 15], and offers a natural justification for the huge value ~ equation [50] for a Bose-Einstein condensate by means of of often used in numerical solutions of SPEs. These re- the Hartree-Fock approximation, see [49] for a detailed sults are particularly remarkable, since this derivation of analysis of the quantum many-body system of bosons. Fi- SPEs in the context of the Schr¨odinger method is the first nally, the potential in (3) is φ = M V , where V is the practical application of the Nelson quantization and of the gravitational potential solution of the Poisson equation Calogero conjecture to a realistic physical problem. ∆V =4πGρ, where ρ = Mn(x). During the proofreading of this manuscript, the author has noticed a paper [51], where it has been presented a Of course, this analysis is accurate only for N large, generalized Schr¨odinger equation derived from the theory and therefore we conclude the dynamics of the N-body of scale relativity, and its application to the problem of system is well described by the SPEs (1) in the large N dark matter halos formation has been discussed. Due to limit. 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