Non-Baryonic Dark Matter in Cosmology

This paper is a broad-band review of the current status of non-baryonic dark matter research. I start with a historical overview of the evidences of dark matter existence, then I discuss how dark matter is distributed from small scale to large scale, and I then verge the attention to dark matter nature: dark matter candidates and their detection. I finally discuss some of the limits of the $\Lambda$CDM model, with particular emphasis on the small scale problems of the paradigm.Comment: 62 pages; 58 figure

Frictionless quantum quenches in ultracold gases: a quantum dynamical microscope

In this article, a method is proposed to spatially scale up a trapped ultracold gas while conserving the quantum correlations of the initial many-body state. For systems supporting self-similar dynamics, this is achieved by implementing a many-body finite-time frictionless quantum quench of the harmonic trap which acts as a quantum dynamical microscope.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figure