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Derivation of the 3D quintic Gross--Pitaevskii equation

Mathematical Physics 2026-02-09 v1 math.MP

Abstract

We study the time evolution of Bose--Einstein condensates with three-body interactions in the Gross--Pitaevskii regime. We show that Bose--Einstein condensation is preserved under many-body evolution and that the condensate wavefunction evolves according to the quintic Gross--Pitaevskii equation in R3\mathbb{R}^3, which is energy critical. In particular, we show that the effective coupling constant is universal and depends only on a three-body scattering hypervolume.

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@article{arxiv.2602.06481,
  title  = {Derivation of the 3D quintic Gross--Pitaevskii equation},
  author = {Arnaud Triay and François L. A. Visconti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.06481},
  year   = {2026}
}

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56 pages, 2 figures, comments welcome!