Bosons in disc-shaped traps: from 3D to 2D (Q883020)

In [\textit{E. H. Lieb, R. Seiringer} and \textit{J. Yngvason}, Commun. Math. Phys. 244, 347--393 (2004; Zbl 1075.82002)] a detailed rigorous derivation of the one-dimensional behavior from the many-body Hamiltonian of a three-dimensional gas was given. In the present paper, the authors carried out the same analysis for thin, disc-shaped traps, i.e. traps with strong confinement in one direction so that a two-dimensional behavior is expected. The analysis starts from the many-body Hamiltonian with repulsive, short range interactions. It has been shown rigorously that how an effective 2D description of the ground state energy and density emerges and how the parameters of the 2D gas relate to those of the 3D gas. While investigating two regimes is distinguished: one where the gas retains some of its 3D character despite the tight confinement and another where the situation is manifestly two-dimensional with a logarithmic dependence of the coupling parameter on the density. In both cases Bose-Einstein condensation in the ground state holds provided the coupling parameter stays bounded. Note that the proceeded analysis based on the Gross-Pitaevskii theory.