Jain, MuditAmin, Mustafa A.2022-04-282022-04-282022Jain, Mudit and Amin, Mustafa A.. "Polarized solitons in higher-spin wave dark matter." <i>Physical Review D,</i> 105, no. 5 (2022) American Physical Society: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.056019.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/112169We first show that the effective nonrelativistic theory of gravitationally interacting, massive integer-spin fields (spin-0, 1, and 2 in particular) is described by a 2s+1 component Schrödinger-Poisson action, where s is the spin of the field. We then construct s+1 distinct, gravitationally supported solitons in this nonrelativistic theory from identically polarized plane waves. Such solitons are extremally polarized, with macroscopically large spin, but no orbital angular momentum. These s+1 solitons form a basis set, out of which partially polarized solitons can be constructed. All such solitons are ground states, have a spherically symmetric energy density but not field configurations. We discuss how solitons in higher-spin fields can be distinguished from scalar solitons, and potential gravitational and nongravitational probes of them.engPublished by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI.Journal articlePhysRevD-105-056019https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.105.056019