Geometric analysis of bifurcation and symmetry breaking in a Gross-Pitaevskii equation

DOI10.1023/B:JOSS.0000037238.94034.75zbMath1138.81015arXivnlin/0309020MaRDI QIDQ2385671

Michael I. Weinstein, Russell K. Jackson

Publication date: 12 October 2007

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Gross-Pitaevskii and nonlinear Hartree equations are equations of nonlinear Schroedinger type, which play an important role in the theory of Bose-Einstein condensation. Recent results of Aschenbacher et. al. [AFGST] demonstrate, for a class of 3- dimensional models, that for large boson number (squared L^2 norm), N, the ground state does not have the symmetry properties as the ground state at small N. We present a detailed global study of the symmetry breaking bifurcation for a 1-dimensional model Gross-Pitaevskii equation, in which the external potential (boson trap) is an attractive double-well, consisting of two attractive Dirac delta functions concentrated at distinct points. Using dynamical systems methods, we present a geometric analysis of the symmetry breaking bifurcation of an asymmetric ground state and the exchange of dynamical stability from the symmetric branch to the asymmetric branch at the bifurcation point.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/nlin/0309020

zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear Schrödinger equationsymmetry breakingBose-Einstein condensatestanding waveslinear instability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Symmetry breaking in quantum theory (81R40) Exactly and quasi-solvable systems arising in quantum theory (81U15) Bifurcations in context of PDEs (35B32)

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