Spectral Stability of Vortices in Two-Dimensional Bose–Einstein Condensates via the Evans Function and Krein Signature

DOI10.1093/AMRX/ABR007MaRDI QIDQ5389060zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Richard Kollár, Robert L. Pego

Publication date 24 April 2012

Published in Applied Mathematics Research eXpress (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1103.0157

zbMATH Keywords

eigenvaluesEvans functionGross-Pitaevskii equationKrein signaturevortex solutions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

NLS equations (nonlinear Schrödinger equations) (35Q55) Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

Abstract: We investigate spectral stability of vortex solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, a mean-field approximation for Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) in an effectively two-dimensional axisymmetric harmonic trap. We study eigenvalues of the linearization both rigorously and through computation of the Evans function, a sensitive and robust technique whose use we justify mathematically. The absence of unstable eigenvalues is justified a posteriori through use of the Krein signature of purely imaginary eigenvalues, which also can be used to significantly reduce computational effort. In particular, we prove general basic continuation results on Krein signature for finite systems of eigenvalues in infinite-dimensional problems.

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