Derivation of the 2d Gross-Pitaevskii equation for strongly confined 3d bosons

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Abstract: We study the dynamics of a system of N interacting bosons in a disc-shaped trap, which is realised by an external potential that confines the bosons in one spatial dimension to a region of order varepsilon. The interaction is non-negative and scaled in such a way that its scattering length is of order (N/varepsilon)−1, while its range is proportional to with scaling parameter . We consider the simultaneous limit (N,varepsilon)o(infty,0) and assume that the system initially exhibits Bose-Einstein condensation. We prove that condensation is preserved by the N-body dynamics, where the time-evolved condensate wave function is the solution of a two-dimensional non-linear equation. The strength of the non-linearity depends on the scaling parameter . For , we obtain a cubic defocusing non-linear Schr"odinger equation, while the choice yields a Gross-Pitaevskii equation featuring the scattering length of the interaction. In both cases, the coupling parameter depends on the confining potential.


The author studies the effective many-body dynamics of a system of Bosons interacting in a disc-shaped trap. Such trap is obtained from an external potential which confines the Bosons in one spatial dimension. It is shown that if the system initially forms a Bose-Einstein condensate with factorized wavefunction, then the dynamics generated by the associated Hamiltonian preserve this property. The time evolved condensate wavefunction satisfies a nonlinear 2D equation. For the scaling parameter \(\beta\), if \(\beta \in (0,1)\), a cubic defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation is obtained, and if \(\beta =1\) a Gross-Pitaevskii equation is obtained. This work extends previous known results for the range \(\beta \in (0, 2/5)\) to now include \(\beta \in (0, 1]\) and further allows for a larger class of confining traps.



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