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Benjamin Schlein

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arXiv2026

The Lee-Huang-Yang energy for a dilute gas of hard spheres: an upper bound

We consider a quantum gas consisting of $N$ hard spheres with radius $\frak{a} > 0$, obeying bosonic statistics and moving in the box $\Lambda = [0;L]^3$ with periodic boundary conditions. We are interested in the ground state energy per unit volume in the thermodynamic limit, with $N, L \to \infty$ at fixed density $\rho = N / L^3$. We derive an upper bound for the ground state energy density, matching the famous Lee-Huang-Yang formula, up to lower order terms, in the dilute limit $\rho \frak{a}^3 \ll 1$.

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arXiv2024

Effective Dynamics of Local Observables for Extended Fermi Gases in the High-Density Regime

We give a rigorous derivation of the Hartree equation for the many-body dynamics of pseudo-relativistic Fermi systems at high density $\varrho \gg 1$, on arbitrarily large domains, at zero temperature. With respect to previous works, we show that the many-body evolution can be approximated by the Hartree dynamics locally, proving convergence of the expectation of observables that are supported in regions with fixed volume, independent of $\varrho$. The result applies to initial data describing fermionic systems at equilibrium confined in arbitrarily large domains, under the assumption that a suitable local Weyl-type estimate holds true. The proof relies on the approximation of the initial data through positive temperature quasi-free states, that satisfy strong local semiclassical bounds, which play a key role in controlling the growth of the local excitations of the quasi-free state along the many-body dynamics.

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arXiv2024

Upper Bound for the Free Energy of Dilute Bose Gases at Low Temperature

We consider a Bose gas at density $\rho > 0$, interacting through a repulsive potential $V \in L^2 (\mathbb{R}^3)$ with scattering length $\mathfrak{a} > 0$. We prove an upper bound for the free energy of the system, valid at low temperature $T \lesssim \rho \mathfrak{a}$. Combined with the recent lower bound obtained in \cite{HabHaiNamSeiTri-23}, our estimate resolves the free energy per unit volume up to and including the Lee--Huang--Yang order $\mathfrak{a} \rho^2 (\rho \mathfrak{a}^3)^{1/2}$.

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arXiv2023

Third order corrections to the ground state energy of a Bose gas in the Gross-Pitaevskii regime

For a translation invariant system of $N$ bosons in the Gross-Pitaevskii regime, we establish a precise bound for the ground state energy $E_N$. While the leading, order $N$, contribution to $E_N$ has been known since [30,28] and the second order corrections (of order one) have been first determined in [5], our estimate also resolves the next term in the asymptotic expansion of $E_N$, which is of the order $(\log N) / N$.

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arXiv2023

Quantum Fluctuations of Many-Body Dynamics around the Gross-Pitaevskii Equation

We consider the evolution of a gas of $N$ bosons in the three-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii regime (in which particles are initially trapped in a volume of order one and interact through a repulsive potential with scattering length of the order $1/N$). We construct a quasi-free approximation of the many-body dynamics, whose distance to the solution of the Schr\"odinger equation converges to zero, as $N \to \infty$, in the $L^2 (\mathbb{R}^{3N})$-norm. To achieve this goal, we let the Bose-Einstein condensate evolve according to a time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation. After factoring out the microscopic correlation structure, the evolution of the orthogonal excitations of the condensate is governed instead by a Bogoliubov dynamics, with a time-dependent generator quadratic in creation and annihilation operators. As an application, we show a central limit theorem for fluctuations of bounded observables around their expectation with respect to the Gross-Pitaevskii dynamics.

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arXiv2022

Upper bound for the ground state energy of a dilute Bose gas of hard spheres

We consider a gas of bosons interacting through a hard-sphere potential with radius $\frak{a}$ in the thermodynamic limit. We derive a simple upper bound for the ground state energy per particle at low density. Our bound captures the leading term $4\pi \rho \frak{a}$ and shows that corrections are smaller than $C \rho \frak{a} (\rho \frak{a}^3)^{1/2}$, for a sufficiently large constant $C > 0$. In combination with a known lower bound, our result implies that the first sub-leading term to the ground state energy is, in fact, of the order $\rho \frak{a} (\rho \frak{a}^3)^{1/2}$, in agreement with the Lee-Huang-Yang prediction.

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arXiv2022

The excitation spectrum of two dimensional Bose gases in the Gross-Pitaevskii regime

We consider a system of $N$ bosons, in the two-dimensional unit torus. We assume particles to interact through a repulsive two-body potential, with a scattering length that is exponentially small in $N$ (Gross-Pitaevskii regime). In this setting, we establish the validity of the predictions of Bogoliubov theory, determining the ground state energy of the Hamilton operator and its low-energy excitation spectrum, up to errors that vanish in the limit $N \to \infty$.

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arXiv2022

Effective Dynamics of Extended Fermi Gases in the High-Density Regime

We study the quantum evolution of many-body Fermi gases in three dimensions, in arbitrarily large domains. We consider both particles with non-relativistic and with relativistic dispersion. We focus on the high-density regime, in the semiclassical scaling, and we consider a class of initial data describing zero-temperature states. In the non-relativistic case we prove that, as the density goes to infinity, the many-body evolution of the reduced one-particle density matrix converges to the solution of the time-dependent Hartree equation, for short macroscopic times. In the case of relativistic dispersion, we show convergence of the many-body evolution to the relativistic Hartree equation for all macroscopic times. With respect to previous work, the rate of convergence does not depend on the total number of particles, but only on the density: in particular, our result allows us to study the quantum dynamics of extensive many-body Fermi gases.

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arXiv2022

Dynamics of mean-field bosons at positive temperature

We study the time evolution of an initially trapped weakly interacting Bose gas at positive temperature, after the trapping potential has been switched off. It has been recently shown in arXiv:2009.00992 that the one-particle density matrix of Gibbs states of the interacting trapped gas is given, to leading order in $N$, as $N \to \infty$, by the one of the ideal gas, with the condensate wave function replaced by the minimizer of the Hartree energy functional. We show that this structure is stable with respect to the many-body evolution in the following sense: the dynamics can be approximated in terms of the time-dependent Hartree equation for the condensate wave function and in terms of the free evolution for the thermally excited particles. The main technical novelty of our work is the use of the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov equations to define a fluctuation dynamics.

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arXiv2022

A second order upper bound for the ground state energy of a hard-sphere gas in the Gross-Pitaevskii regime

We prove an upper bound for the ground state energy of a Bose gas consisting of $N$ hard spheres with radius $\mathfrak{a}/N$, moving in the three-dimensional unit torus $\Lambda$. Our estimate captures the correct asymptotics of the ground state energy, up to errors that vanish in the limit $N \to \infty$. The proof is based on the construction of an appropriate trial state, given by the product of a Jastrow factor (describing two-particle correlations on short scales) and of a wave function constructed through a (generalized) Bogoliubov transformation, generating orthogonal excitations of the Bose-Einstein condensate and describing correlations on large scales.

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arXiv2022

Bose gases in the Gross-Pitaevskii limit: a survey of some rigorous results

We review some mathematical work on the Bose gas in the Gross-Pitaevskii regime. We start with the classical results by Lieb, Seiringer and Yngvason on the ground state energy and by Lieb and Seiringer on the existence of Bose-Einstein condensation. Afterwards, we discuss some more recent progress, based on a rigorous version of Bogoliubov theory.

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arXiv2022

Bogoliubov Theory in the Gross-Pitaevskii Limit: a Simplified Approach

We show that Bogoliubov theory correctly predicts the low-energy spectral properties of Bose gases in the Gross-Pitaevskii regime. We recover recent results from \cite{BBCS,BBCS4}. While our main strategy is similar to the one developed in \cite{BBCS,BBCS4}, we combine it with new ideas, taken in part from \cite{Hainzl,NT}; this makes our proof substantially simpler and shorter. As an important step towards the proof of Bogoliubov theory, we show that low-energy states exhibit complete Bose-Einstein condensation with optimal control on the number of orthogonal excitations.

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arXiv2022

Ground state energy of a Bose gas in the Gross-Pitaevskii regime

We review some rigorous estimates for the ground state energy of dilute Bose gases. We start with Dyson's upper bound, which provides the correct leading order asymptotics for hard spheres. Afterwards, we discuss a rigorous version of Bogoliubov theory, which recently led to an estimate for the ground state energy in the Gross-Pitaevskii regime, valid up to second order, for particles interacting through integrable potentials. Finally, we explain how these ideas can be combined to establish a new upper bound, valid to second order, for the energy of hard spheres in the Gross-Pitaeavskii limit. Here we only sketch the main ideas, details will appear elsewhere.

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arXiv2022

The Euclidean $\phi^4_2$ theory as a limit of an interacting Bose gas

We prove that the complex Euclidean field theory with local quartic self-interaction in two dimensions arises as a limit of an interacting Bose gas at positive temperature, when the density of the gas becomes large and the range of the interaction becomes small. The field theory is supported on distributions of negative regularity, which requires a renormalization by divergent mass and energy counterterms. We obtain convergence of the relative partition function and uniform convergence of the renormalized reduced density matrices. The proof is based on three main ingredients: (a) a quantitative analysis of the infinite-dimensional saddle point argument for the functional integral introduced in [32] using continuity properties of Brownian paths, (b) a Nelson-type estimate for a general nonlocal field theory in two dimensions, and (c) repeated Gaussian integration by parts in field space to obtain uniform control on the renormalized correlation functions. As a byproduct of our proof, in two and three dimensions we also extend the results on the mean-field limit from [32,56] to unbounded interaction potentials satisfying the optimal integrability conditions proposed by Bourgain [13].

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arXiv2021

Bogoliubov Theory for Trapped Bosons in the Gross-Pitaevskii Regime

We consider systems of $N$ bosons in $\mathbb{R}^3$, trapped by an external potential. The interaction is repulsive and has a scattering length of the order $N^{-1}$ (Gross-Pitaevskii regime). We determine the ground state energy and the low-energy excitation spectrum up to errors that vanish in the limit $N\to \infty$.

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arXiv2021

Correlation Energy of a Weakly Interacting Fermi Gas with Large Interaction Potential

Recently the leading order of the correlation energy of a Fermi gas in a coupled mean-field and semiclassical scaling regime has been derived, under the assumption of an interaction potential with a small norm and with compact support in Fourier space. We generalize this result to large interaction potentials, requiring only $|\cdot| \hat{V} \in \ell^1 (\mathbb{Z}^3)$. Our proof is based on approximate, collective bosonization in three dimensions. Significant improvements compared to recent work include stronger bounds on non-bosonizable terms and more efficient control on the bosonization of the kinetic energy.

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arXiv2021

Excitation Spectrum for Bose Gases beyond the Gross-Pitaevskii Regime

We consider Bose gases of $N$ particles in a box of volume one, interacting through a repulsive potential with scattering length of order $N^{1-\kappa}$, for $\kappa > 0$. Such regimes interpolate between the Gross-Pitaevskii and thermodynamic limits. Assuming that $\kappa$ is sufficiently small, we determine the ground state energy and the low-energy excitation spectrum of the system, up to errors vanishing in the limit of large $N$.

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