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We analyze the possibility that due to their superfluid properties some compact astrophysical objects may contain a significant part of their matter in the form of a Bose-Einstein condensate. To study the condensate we use the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-05-30 P. H. Chavanis , T. Harko

The current article explores the problem of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) trapped in an anisotropic three-dimensional harmonic-oscillator potential, with positive effective interatomic interactions, and the analogue gravity acoustic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-05 B. González-Fernández , A. Camacho

General types of Bose-Einstein condensates are considered. The formation of black-hole analogues is examined for both short- and long-range interactions for arbitrary spatial dimensions greater than two. The former case includes non-linear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-22 Florian Kuhnel

We investigate gravitational analogue models to describe slowly rotating objects (e.g., dark-matter halos, or boson stars) in terms of Bose-Einstein condensates, trapped in their own gravitational potentials. We begin with a modified…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-26 Florian Kuhnel , Cornelius Rampf

Gross-Pitaevskii equation for Bose-Einstein condensate confined in elongated cigar-shaped trap is reduced to an effective system of nonlinear equations depending on only one space coordinate along the trap axis. The radial distribution of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 A. M. Kamchatnov , V. S. Shchesnovich

We consider the possible existence of gravitationally bound general relativistic strings consisting of Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) matter which is described, in the Newtonian limit, by the zero temperature time-dependent nonlinear…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-09-29 Tiberiu Harko , Matthew J. Lake

We develop a hydrodynamic representation of the Klein-Gordon-Maxwell-Einstein equations. These equations combine quantum mechanics, electromagnetism, and general relativity. We consider the case of an arbitrary curved spacetime, the case of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-11-27 Pierre-Henri Chavanis , Tonatiuh Matos

The review is devoted to the elucidation of the basic problems arising in the theoretical investigation of systems with Bose-Einstein condensate. Understanding these challenging problems is necessary for the correct description of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 V. I. Yukalov

We investigate geometric resonances in Bose-Einstein condensates by solving the underlying time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation for systems with two- and three-body interactions in an axially-symmetric harmonic trap. To this end, we use…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-03-08 Hamid Al-Jibbouri , Ivana Vidanovic , Antun Balaz , Axel Pelster

For almost a century, the cosmological constant has been a mysterious object, in relation to both its origin and its very small value. By using a Bose-Einstein condensate analogue model for gravitational dynamics, we address here the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-07-25 Stefano Finazzi , Stefano Liberati , Lorenzo Sindoni

We discuss the phenomenon of Bose-Einstein condensation of an ideal non-relativistic Bose gas in an arbitrarily shaped cavity. The influence of the finite extension of the cavity on all thermodynamical quantities, especially on the critical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Klaus Kirsten , David J. Toms

This work presents a dimensional reduction of Bose-Einstein condensates confined by generalized transverse potentials, parametrized by an exponent $n$. Starting from the three-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation, we employ a variational…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-11-20 Andréia M. Basso , Wesley B. Cardoso

Recent conjectures that there are mesoscopically ``large'' extra dimensions, through which gravity propagates have interesting implications for much of physics. The scenario implies gross departures from Newton's law of gravity at small…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Steinn Sigurdsson

We revisit the problem of the reduction of the three-dimensional (3D) dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates, under the action of strong confinement in one direction ($z$), to a 2D mean-field equation. We address this problem for the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-10-14 Mateus C. P. dos Santos , Boris A. Malomed , Wesley B. Cardoso

We report on some recent results concerning the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensates, obtained in a series of joint papers with L. Erdos and H.-T. Yau. Starting from many body quantum dynamics, we present a rigorous derivation of a cubic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Benjamin Schlein

Spatially homogeneous universes can be described in (loop) quantum gravity as condensates of elementary excitations of space. Their treatment is easiest in the second-quantised group field theory formalism which allows the adaptation of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-07-24 Steffen Gielen

We consider the possibility that the dark matter, which is required to explain the dynamics of the neutral hydrogen clouds at large distances from the galactic center, could be in the form of a Bose-Einstein condensate. To study the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-27 C. G. Boehmer , T. Harko

We discuss a toy model for an emergent non-relativistic gravitational theory. Within a certain class of Bose-Einstein condensates, it is possible to show that, in a suitable regime, a modified version of non-relativistic Newtonian gravity…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-02-08 Lorenzo Sindoni , Florian Girelli , Stefano Liberati

We consider the three-dimensional time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation arising in the description of rotating Bose-Einstein condensates and study the corresponding scaling limit of strongly anisotropic confinement potentials. The…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-13 Florian Mehats , Christof Sparber

Quantum sensors based on matter-wave interferometry are promising candidates for high-precision gravimetry and inertial sensing in space. The favorable source for the coherent matter waves in these devices are Bose-Einstein condensates. A…