Thomas-Fermi profile of a fast rotating Bose-Einstein condensate
Abstract
We study the minimizers of a magnetic 2D non-linear Schr\"odinger energy functional in a quadratic trapping potential, describing a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate. We derive an effective Thomas-Fermi-like model in the rapidly rotating limit where the centrifugal force compensates the confinement, and available states are restricted to the lowest Landau level. The coupling constant of the effective Thomas-Fermi functional is linked to the emergence of vortex lattices (the Abrikosov problem). We define it via a low density expansion of the energy of the corresponding homogeneous gas in the thermodynamic limit.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2201.04418,
title = {Thomas-Fermi profile of a fast rotating Bose-Einstein condensate},
author = {Dinh-Thi Nguyen and Nicolas Rougerie},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.04418},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
The previous version, submitted in August 2022, had an unphysical restriction on the allowed scaling of physical parameters of the problem. We bypass this by a kind of bootstrap argument. We also correct a mistake in the proof of the density convergence in the LLL case