English

Stability of self-gravitating Bose-Einstein-Condensates

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2015-12-09 v2

Abstract

We study the ground state and the first three radially excited states of a self-gravitating Bose-Einstein- Condensate with respect to the influence of two external parameters, the total mass and the strength of interactions between particles. For this we use the so-called Gross-Pitaevskii-Newton system. In this context we especially determine the case of very high total masses where the ground state solutions of the Gross-Pitaevskii- Newton system can be approximated with the Thomas-Fermi limit. Furthermore, stability properties of the computed radially excited states are examined by applying arguments of the catastrophe theory.

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@article{arxiv.1507.06122,
  title  = {Stability of self-gravitating Bose-Einstein-Condensates},
  author = {Kris Schroven and Meike List and Claus Lämmerzahl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1507.06122},
  year   = {2015}
}

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11 pages, 9 figures

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