We study a long wave-length asymptotics for the Gross-Pitaevskii equation corresponding to perturbation of a constant state of modulus one. We exhibit lower bounds on the first occurence of possible zeros (vortices) and compare the solutions with the corresponding solutions to the linear wave equation or variants. The results rely on the use of the Madelung transform, which yields the hydrodynamical form of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, as well as of an augmented system.
We consider the so-called Gross-Pitaevskii equations supplemented with non-standard boundary conditions. We prove two mathematical results concerned with the initial value problem for these equations in Zhidkov spaces.
We consider a Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a nonlocal interaction potential. We provide sufficient conditions on the potential such that there exists a range of speeds in which nontrivial traveling waves do not exist
In this paper, we prove the nonlinear orbital stability of the stationary traveling wave of the one-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation by using Zakharov-Shabat's inverse scattering method.
We study the energy space for the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with magnetic field and non-vanishing conditions at infinity. We provide necessary and sufficient conditions on the magnetic field for which the energy space is non-empty.
Extensions to higher-dimensions are given for a convolution estimate used by Klainerman and Machedon in their study of uniqueness of solutions for the Gross-Pitaevskii hierarchy. Such estimates determine more general forms of Stein-Weiss integrals involving restriction to smooth submanifolds.
We prove existence and uniqueness of a positive solution to a system of two coupled Gross-Pitaevskii equations. We give a full asymptotic expansion of this solution into powers of the semi classical parameter $\varepsilon$ in the Thomas--Fermi limit $\varepsilon\to 0$.
In this paper, we establish the global well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with an rotational angular momentum term in the space $\Real^2$.
We establish the stability in the energy space for sums of solitons of the one-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation when their speeds are mutually distinct and distinct from zero, and when the solitons are initially well-separated and spatially ordered according to their speeds.
We prove global wellposedness in the energy space of the defocusing cubic nonlinear Schroedinger and Gross-Pitaevskii equations on the exterior of a non-trapping domain in dimension 3. The main ingredient is a Strichartz estimate obtained combining a semi-classical Strichartz estimate with a smoothing effect on exterior domains.
We prove the global-in-time well-posedness of the one dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation in the energy space, which is a complete metric space equipped with a newly introduced metric and with the energy norm describing the $H^s$ regularities of the solutions. We establish a family of conserved energies for the one dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation, such that the energy norms of the solutions are conserved globally in time. This family of energies is also conserved by the complex modified Korteweg-de Vries flow.
We study dynamics of vortices in solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation $i \partial_t u = Δu + \varepsilon^{-2} u (1 - |u|^2)$ on $\mathbb{R}^2$ with nonzero degree at infinity. We prove that vortices move according to the classical Kirchhoff-Onsager ODE for a small but finite coupling parameter $\varepsilon$. By carefully tracking errors we allow for asymptotically large numbers of vortices, and this lets us connect the Gross-Pitaevskii equation on the plane to two dimensional incompressible Euler equations through the work of Schochet [21].
In the nineties, Klein, Majda and Damodaran have formally derived a simplified asymptotic motion law for the evolution of nearly parallel vortex filaments in the context of the three dimensional Euler equation for incompressible fluids. In the present work, we rigorously derive the corresponding asymptotic motion law in the context of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation.
We establish the orbital stability of the black soliton, or kink solution, $\v_0(x) = þ\big(\frac{x}{\sqrt{2}} \big)$, to the one-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation, with respect to perturbations in the energy space.
We study the Cauchy problem for an inhomogeneous Gross-Pitaevskii equation. We first derive a sharp threshold for global existence and blow up of the solution. Then we construct and classify finite time blow up solutions at the minimal mass threshold. Additionally, using variational techniques, we study the existence, the orbital stability and instability of standing waves.
In this paper, we establish the global well-posedness of the Cauchy problem for the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with an angular momentum rotational term in which the angular velocity is equal to the isotropic trapping frequency in the space $\Real^3$.
We construct a smooth branch of travelling wave solutions for the 2 dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equations for small speed. These travelling waves exhibit two vortices far away from each other. We also compute the leading order term of the derivatives with respect to the speed. We construct these solutions by an implicit function type argument.
Leapfrogging motion of vortex rings sharing the same axis of symmetry was first predicted by Helmholtz in his famous work on the Euler equation for incompressible fluids. Its justification in that framework remains an open question to date. In this paper, we rigorously derive the corresponding leapfrogging motion for the axially symmetric three-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation.
We study the Gross-Pitaevskii equation involving a nonlocal interaction potential. Our aim is to give sufficient conditions that cover a variety of nonlocal interactions such that the associated Cauchy problem is globally well-posed with non-zero boundary condition at infinity, in any dimension. We focus on even potentials that are positive definite or positive tempered distributions.
We provide a rigorous mathematical derivation of the convergence in the long-wave transonic limit of the minimizing travelling waves for the two-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation towards ground states for the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation (KP I).
We establish a rigorous well-posedness results for the Marchenko system associated to the scattering theory of the one dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GP). Under some assumptions on the scattering data, these well-posedness results provide regular solutions for (GP). We also construct particular solutions, called $N-$soliton solutions as an approximate superposition of traveling waves. A study for the asymptotic behaviors of such solutions when $t\rightarrow\pm \infty$ is also made.
In this paper, we justify the semiclassical limit of Gross-Pitaevskii equation with Dirichlet boundary condition on the 3-D upper space under the assumption that the leading order terms to both initial amplitude and initial phase function are sufficiently small in some high enough Sobolev norms. We remark that the main difficulty of the proof lies in the fact that the boundary layer appears in the leading order terms of the amplitude functions and the gradient of the phase functions to the WKB expansions of the solutions. In particular, we partially solved the open question proposed in \cite{C…
We study the dynamics of vortices in an inhomogeneous Gross-Pitaevskii equation $i \partial_t u = Δu + {1\over \varepsilon^2} (p_\varepsilon^2(x) - |u|^2)$. For a unique scaling regime $|p_\varepsilon(x) - 1 | = O(|\log \varepsilon|^{-1})$, it is shown that vortices can interact both with the background perturbation and with each other. Results for associated parabolic and elliptic problems are discussed.
The Cauchy problem for the Gross-Pitaevskii equation in three space dimensions is shown to have an unconditionally unique global solution for data of the form 1 + H^s for 5/6 < s < 1, which do not have necessarily finite energy. The proof uses the I-method which is complicated by the fact that no L^2 -conservation law holds. This improves former results of Bethuel-Saut and Gerard.
We prove existence and qualitative properties of ground state solutions to a generalized nonlocal 3rd-4th order Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Using a mountain pass argument on spheres and constructing appropriately localized Palais-Smale sequences we are able to prove existence of real positive ground states as saddle points. The analysis is deployed in the set of possible states, thus overcoming the problem that the energy is unbounded below. We also prove a corresponding nonlocal Pohozaev identity with no rest term, a crucial part of the analysis.
In this paper we consider traveling waves for the Gross-Pitaevskii equation which are T-periodic in each variable. We prove that if T is large enough, there exists a solution as a global minimizer of the corresponding action functional. In the subsonic case, we can use variational methods to prove the existence of a mountain-pass solution. Moreover, we show that for small T the problem admits only constant solutions.
We study the well-posedness of two systems modeling the non-equilibrium dynamics of pumped decaying Bose-Einstein condensates. In particular, we present the local theory for rough initial data using the Fourier restricted norm method introduced by Bourgain. We extend the result globally for initial data in $L^2$.
We consider a system of Gross-Pitaevskii equations in R^2 modelling a mixture of two Bose-Einstein condensates with repulsive interaction. We aim to study the qualitative behaviour of ground and excited state solutions. We allow two different harmonic and off-centered trapping potentials and study the spatial patterns of the solutions within the Thomas-Fermi approximation as well as phase segregation phenomena within the large-interaction regime.
We study the Gross-Pitaevskii equation in dimension two with periodic conditions in one direction, or equivalently on the product space $\mathbb{R} \times \mathbb{T}_L$ where $L > 0$ and $\mathbb{T}_L = \mathbb{R} / L \mathbb{Z}.$ We focus on the variational problem consisting in minimizing the Ginzburg-Landau energy under a fixed momentum constraint. We prove that there exists a threshold value for $L$ below which minimizers are the one-dimensional dark solitons, and above which no minimizer can be one-dimensional.
In the previous paper, we constructed a smooth branch of travelling waves for the 2 dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Here, we continue the study of this branch. We show some coercivity results, and we deduce from them the kernel of the linearized operator, a spectral stability result, as well as a uniqueness result in the energy space. In particular, our result proves the non degeneracy of these travelling waves, which is a key step in the classification of these waves and for the construction of multi-travelling waves.
We study the Cauchy problem for the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a nonlocal interaction potential of Hartree type in three space dimensions. If the potential is even and positive definite or a positive function and its Fourier transform decays sufficiently rapidly the problem is shown to be globally well-posed for large rough data which not necessarily have finite energy and also in a situation where the energy functional is not positive definite. The proof uses a suitable modification of the I-method.
We consider the final-data problem for systems of nonlinear Schrödinger equations with $L^2$ subcritical nonlinearity. An asymptotically free solution is uniquely obtained for almost every randomized asymptotic profile in $L^2(\mathbb{R}^d)$, extending the result of J. Murphy to powers equal to or lower than the Strauss exponent. In particular, systems with quadratic nonlinearity can be treated in three space dimensions, and by the same argument, the Gross-Pitaevskii equation in the energy space. The extension is by use of the Strichartz estimate with a time weight.
The purpose of this paper is to provide a rigorous mathematical proof of the existence of travelling wave solutions to the Gross-Pitaevskii equation in dimensions two and three. Our arguments, based on minimization under constraints, yield a full branch of solutions, and extend earlier results, where only a part of the branch was built. In dimension three, we also show that there are no travelling wave solutions of small energy.
We investigate the existence of ground state solutions of a Gross-Pitaevskii equation modeling the dynamics of pumped Bose Einstein condensates (BEC). The main interest in such BEC comes from its important nature as macroscopic quantum system, constituting an excellent alternative to the classical condensates which are hard to realize because of the very low temperature required. Nevertheless, the Gross Pitaevskii equation governing the new condensates presents some mathematical challenges due to the presence of the pumping and damping terms. Following a self-contained approach, we prove the e…
We construct a family of conserved energies for the one dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation, but in the low regularity case (in \cite{KL} we have constructed conserved energies in the high regularity situation). This can be done thanks to regularization procedures and a study of the topological structure of the finite-energy space. The asymptotic (regularised conserved) phase change on the real line with values in $ \R/2π\Z$ is studied. We also construct a conserved quantity, the renormalized momentum $H_1$ (see Theorem \ref{thm:E1}), on the universal covering space of the finite-energy spac…
We pursue our work on the dynamical stability of dark solitons for the one-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation. In this paper, we prove their asymptotic stability under small perturbations in the energy space. In particular, our results do not require smallness in some weighted spaces or a priori spectral assumptions. Our strategy is reminiscent of the one used by Martel and Merle in various works regarding generalized Korteweg-de Vries equations. The important feature of our contribution is related to the fact that while Korteweg-de Vries equations possess unidirectional dispersion, Schrödi…
In this paper, we proceed along our analysis of the Korteweg-de Vries approximation of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation initiated in a previous paper. At the long-wave limit, we establish that solutions of small amplitude to the one-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation split into two waves with opposite constant speeds $\pm \sqrt{2}$, each of which are solutions to a Korteweg-de Vries equation. We also compute an estimate of the error term which is somewhat optimal as long as travelling waves are considered. At the cost of higher regularity of the initial data, this improves our previous estimat…
In this short report we give a proof of the existence of a stationary solution to the Gross-Pitaevskii equation in $2d$ driven by a space-time white noise.
We study the generalized point-vortex problem and the Gross-Pitaevskii equation on surfaces of revolution. We find rotating periodic solutions to the generalized point-vortex problem, which have two two rings of $n$ equally spaced vortices with degrees $\pm 1$. In particular we prove the existence of such solutions when the surface is longitudinally symmetric. Then we seek a rotating solution to the Gross-Pitaevskii equation having vortices that follow those of the point-vortex flow for $\varepsilon$ sufficiently small.
We study the Cauchy problem for the 3D Gross-Pitaevskii equation. The global well-posedness in the natural energy space was proved by Gérard \cite{Gerard}. In this paper we prove scattering for small data in the same space with some additional angular regularity, and in particular in the radial case we obtain small energy scattering.
We give a new proof of uniqueness of solutions to the Gross-Pitaevskii hierarchy, first established by Erdos, Schlein and Yau, in a different space, based on space-time estimates.
The Gross-Pitaevskii equation with white noise in time perturbations of the harmonic potential is considered. In this article we define a Crank-Nicolson scheme based on a spectral discretization and we show the convergence of this scheme in the case of cubic non-linearity and when the exact solution is uniquely defined and global in time. We prove that the strong order of convergence in probability is at least one.
In this paper we consider the two-dimensional stochastic Gross-Pitaevskii equation, which is a model to describe Bose-Einstein condensation at positive temperature. The equation is a complex Ginzburg-Landau equation with a harmonic potential and an additive space-time white noise. We study the well-posedness of the model using an inhomogeneous Wick renormalization due to the potential, and prove the existence of an invariant measure and of stationary martingale solutions.
We prove an adiabatic theorem for the non-autonomous Gross-Pitaevskii equation in the case of a weak trap. More precisely, we assume that the external potential decays suitably at infinity and admits exactly one bound state.
We study asymptotic behaviour at time infinity of solutions close to the non-zero constant equilibrium for the Gross-Pitaevskii equation in two and three spatial dimensions. We construct a class of global solutions with prescribed dispersive asymptotic behavior, which is given in terms of the linearized evolution.
In 1982, Ball, Marsden, and Slemrod proved an obstruction to the controllability of linear dynamics with a bounded bilinear control term. This note presents an example of nonlinear dynamics with respect to the state for which this obstruction still holds while the control potential is not bounded.
We study the stability of the standing wave solutions of a Gross-Pitaevskii equation describing Bose-Einstein condensation of dipolar quantum gases and characterize their orbit. As an intermediate step, we consider the corresponding constrained minimization problem and establish existence, symmetry and uniqueness of the ground state solutions.
Bäcklund transformations are applied to study the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Supported by previous results, a class of Bäcklund transformations admitted by this equation are constructed. Schwartzian derivative as well as its invariance properties turn out to represent a key tool in the present investigation. Examples and explicit solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation are obtained.
We consider systems of $N$ bosons in $\mathbb{R}^3$, trapped by an external potential. The interaction is repulsive and has a scattering length of the order $N^{-1}$ (Gross-Pitaevskii regime). We determine the ground state energy and the low-energy excitation spectrum up to errors that vanish in the limit $N\to \infty$.
We investigate the asymptotic behavior at time infinity of solutions close to a non-zero constant equilibrium for the Gross-Pitaevskii (or Ginzburg-Landau Schroedinger) equation. We prove that, in dimensions larger than 3, small perturbations can be approximated at time infinity by the linearized evolution, and the wave operators are homeomorphic around 0 in certain Sobolev spaces.
We review some mathematical work on the Bose gas in the Gross-Pitaevskii regime. We start with the classical results by Lieb, Seiringer and Yngvason on the ground state energy and by Lieb and Seiringer on the existence of Bose-Einstein condensation. Afterwards, we discuss some more recent progress, based on a rigorous version of Bogoliubov theory.
We consider the dissipative heat flow and conservative Gross-Pitaevskii dynamics associated with the Ginzburg-Landau energy posed on a Riemannian 2-manifold M. We show the limiting vortices of the solutions to these two problems evolve according to the gradient flow and Hamiltonian point-vortex flow respectively, associated with the renormalized energy on M. For the heat flow, we then specialize to the case where M is a sphere and study the limiting system of ODE's and establish an annihilation result. Finally, for the Ginzburg-Landau heat flow on a sphere, we derive some weighted energy ident…
In this paper we study the bilinear-control problem for the linear and non-linear Schr{ö}dinger equation with harmonic potential. By the means of different examples, we show how space-time smoothing effects (Strichartz estimates, Kato smoothing effect) enjoyed by the linear flow, can help to prove obstructions to controllability.
We consider Bose gases consisting of $N$ particles trapped in a box with volume one and interacting through a repulsive potential with scattering length of the order $N^{-1}$(Gross-Pitaevskii regime). We determine the ground state energy and the low-energy excitation spectrum, up to errors vanishing as $N \to \infty$. Our results confirm Bogoliubov's predictions.
We derive the asymptotical dynamical law for Ginzburg-Landau vortices in an inhomogeneous background density under the Schrödinger dynamics, when the Ginzburg-Landau parameter goes to zero. New ingredients involve across the cores lower bound estimates and approximations.
