On the Thomas-Fermi approximation of the ground state in a PT-symmetric confining potential

DOI10.1111/SAPM.12064MaRDI QIDQ2935335zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Clément Gallo, Dmitry Pelinovsky

Publication date 23 December 2014

Published in Studies in Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.7072

zbMATH Keywords

\(\mathcal{P}T\)-symmetric confining potentialGross-Pitaevskii equationThomas-Fermi approximation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Einstein equations (35Q76) Numerical solution of boundary value problems involving ordinary differential equations (65L10)

Abstract: For the stationary Gross-Pitaevskii equation with harmonic real and linear imaginary potentials in the space of one dimension, we study the ground state in the limit of large densities (large chemical potentials), where the solution degenerates into a compact Thomas-Fermi approximation. We prove that the Thomas-Fermi approximation can be constructed with an invertible coordinate transformation and an unstable manifold theorem for a planar dynamical system. The Thomas-Fermi approximation can be justified by reducing the existence problem to the Painlev'e-II equation, which admits a unique global Hastings-McLeod solution. We illustrate numerically that an iterative approach to solving the existence problem converges but give no analytical proof of this result. Generalizations are discussed for the stationary Gross-Pitaevskii equation with harmonic real and localized imaginary potentials.

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