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On the Time Dependent Gross Pitaevskii- and Hartree Equation

Mathematical Physics 2008-08-11 v1 math.MP

Abstract

We are interested in solutions Ψt\Psi_t of the Schr\"odinger equation of NN interacting bosons under the influence of a time dependent external field, where the range and the coupling constant of the interaction scale with NN in such a way, that the interaction energy per particle stays more or less constant. Let Nϕ0\mathcal{N}^{\phi_0} be the particle number operator with respect to some ϕ0L2(R3C)\phi_0\in L^2(\mathbb{R}^3\to\mathbb{C}). Assume that the relative particle number of the initial wave function N1<Ψ0,Nϕ0Ψ0>N^{-1}< \Psi_0,\mathcal{N}^{\phi_0}\Psi_0> converges to one as NN\to\infty. We shall show that we can find a ϕtL2(R3C)\phi_t\in L^2(\mathbb{R}^3\to\mathbb{C}) such that limNN1<Ψt,NϕtΨt>=1\lim_{N\to\infty}N^{-1}< \Psi_t,\mathcal{N}^{\phi_t}\Psi_t>=1 and that ϕt\phi_t is -- dependent of the scaling of the range of the interaction -- solution of the Gross-Pitaevskii or Hartree equation. We shall also show that under additional decay conditions of ϕt\phi_t the limit can be taken uniform in t<t<\infty and that convergence of the relative particle number implies convergence of the kk-particle density matrices of Ψt\Psi_t.

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@article{arxiv.0808.1178,
  title  = {On the Time Dependent Gross Pitaevskii- and Hartree Equation},
  author = {Peter Pickl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0808.1178},
  year   = {2008}
}