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Lea Boßmann

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arXiv2024

A Note on the Binding Energy for Bosons in the Mean-field Limit

We consider a gas of N weakly interacting bosons in the ground state. Such gases exhibit Bose-Einstein condensation. The binding energy is defined as the energy it takes to remove one particle from the gas. In this article, we prove an asymptotic expansion for the binding energy, and compute the first orders explicitly for the homogeneous gas. Our result addresses in particular a conjecture by Nam [Lett. Math. Phys., 108(1):141--159, 2018], and provides an asymptotic expansion of the ionization energy of bosonic atoms.

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arXiv2023

Ground state of Bose gases interacting through singular potentials

We consider a system of $N$ bosons on the three-dimensional unit torus. The particles interact through repulsive pair interactions of the form $N^{3β-1} v (N^βx)$ for $β\in (0,1)$. We prove the next order correction to Bogoliubov theory for the ground state and the ground state energy.

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arXiv2023

Focusing dynamics of 2D Bose gases in the instability regime

We consider the dynamics of a 2D Bose gas with an interaction potential of the form $N^{2β-1}w(N^β\cdot)$ for $β\in (0,3/2)$. The interaction may be chosen to be negative and large, leading to the instability regime where the corresponding focusing cubic nonlinear Schr{ö}dinger equation (NLS) may blow up in finite time. We show that to leading order, the $N$-body quantum dynamics can be effectively described by the NLS prior to the blow-up time. Moreover, we prove the validity of the Bogoliubov approximation, where the excitations from the condensate are captured in a norm approximation of the many-body dynamics.

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arXiv2023

Weak Edgeworth expansion for the mean-field interacting Bose gas

We consider the ground state and the low-energy excited states of a system of $N$ identical bosons with interactions in the mean-field scaling regime. For the ground state, we derive an Edgeworth expansion for the fluctuations of bounded one-body operators, which yields corrections to a central limit theorem to any order in $1/\sqrt{N}$ . For suitable excited states, we show that the limiting distribution is a polynomial times a normal distribution, and that higher order corrections are given by an Edgeworth-type expansion.

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arXiv2023

Asymptotic analysis of the weakly interacting Bose gas: A collection of recent results and applications

We consider a gas of N bosons with interactions in the mean-field scaling regime. We review a recent proof of the asymptotic expansion of its spectrum and eigenstates and two applications of this result, namely the derivation of an Edgeworth expansion for fluctuations of one-body operators and the computation of the binding energy of an inhomogeneous Bose gas to any order. Finally, we collect related results for the dynamics of the weakly interacting Bose gas and for the regularized Nelson model.

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arXiv2022

Asymptotic expansion of low-energy excitations for weakly interacting bosons

We consider a system of $N$ bosons in the mean-field scaling regime for a class of interactions including the repulsive Coulomb potential. We derive an asymptotic expansion of the low-energy eigenstates and the corresponding energies, which provides corrections to Bogoliubov theory to any order in $1/N$.

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arXiv2022

Beyond Bogoliubov Dynamics

We consider a system of N interacting bosons in the mean-field scaling regime and construct corrections to the Bogoliubov dynamics that approximate the true N-body dynamics in norm to arbitrary precision. The N-independent corrections are given in terms of the solutions of the Bogoliubov and Hartree equations and satisfy a generalized form of Wick's theorem. We determine the n-point correlation functions of the excitations around the condensate, as well as the reduced densities of the N-body system, to arbitrary accuracy, given only the knowledge of the two-point functions of a quasi-free state and the solution of the Hartree equation. In this way, the complex problem of computing all n-point correlation functions for an interacting N-body system is essentially reduced to the problem of solving the Hartree equation and the PDEs for the Bogoliubov two-point functions.

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arXiv2022

Low-energy spectrum and dynamics of the weakly interacting Bose gas

We consider a gas of N bosons with interactions in the mean-field scaling regime. We review the proof of an asymptotic expansion of its low-energy spectrum, eigenstates and dynamics, which provides corrections to Bogoliubov theory to all orders in 1/N. This is based on joint works with S. Petrat, P. Pickl, R. Seiringer and A. Soffer. In addition, we derive a full asymptotic expansion of the ground state one-body reduced density matrix.

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arXiv2020

Derivation of the 2d Gross-Pitaevskii equation for strongly confined 3d bosons

We study the dynamics of a system of $N$ interacting bosons in a disc-shaped trap, which is realised by an external potential that confines the bosons in one spatial dimension to a region of order $\varepsilon$. The interaction is non-negative and scaled in such a way that its scattering length is of order $(N/\varepsilon)^{-1}$, while its range is proportional to $(N/\varepsilon)^{-β}$ with scaling parameter $β\in(0,1]$. We consider the simultaneous limit $(N,\varepsilon)\to(\infty,0)$ and assume that the system initially exhibits Bose-Einstein condensation. We prove that condensation is preserved by the $N$-body dynamics, where the time-evolved condensate wave function is the solution of a two-dimensional non-linear equation. The strength of the non-linearity depends on the scaling parameter $β$. For $β\in(0,1)$, we obtain a cubic defocusing non-linear Schrödinger equation, while the choice $β=1$ yields a Gross-Pitaevskii equation featuring the scattering length of the interaction. In both cases, the coupling parameter depends on the confining potential.

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arXiv2019

Higher order corrections to the mean-field description of the dynamics of interacting bosons

In this paper, we introduce a novel method for deriving higher order corrections to the mean-field description of the dynamics of interacting bosons. More precisely, we consider the dynamics of $N$ $d$-dimensional bosons for large $N$. The bosons initially form a Bose-Einstein condensate and interact with each other via a pair potential of the form $(N-1)^{-1}N^{dβ}v(N^β\cdot)$ for $β\in[0,\frac{1}{4d})$. We derive a sequence of $N$-body functions which approximate the true many-body dynamics in $L^2(\mathbb{R}^{d N})$-norm to arbitrary precision in powers of $N^{-1}$. The approximating functions are constructed as Duhamel expansions of finite order in terms of the first quantised analogue of a Bogoliubov time evolution.

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arXiv2018

Derivation of the 1d Gross-Pitaevskii equation from the 3d quantum many-body dynamics of strongly confined bosons

We consider the dynamics of $N$ interacting bosons initially forming a Bose-Einstein condensate. Due to an external trapping potential, the bosons are strongly confined in two dimensions, where the transverse extension of the trap is of order $\varepsilon$. The non-negative interaction potential is scaled such that its range and its scattering length are both of order $(N/\varepsilon^2)^{-1}$, corresponding to the Gross-Pitaevskii scaling of a dilute Bose gas. We show that in the simultaneous limit $N\rightarrow\infty$ and $\varepsilon\rightarrow 0$, the dynamics preserve condensation and the time evolution is asymptotically described by a Gross-Pitaevskii equation in one dimension. The strength of the nonlinearity is given by the scattering length of the unscaled interaction, multiplied with a factor depending on the shape of the confining potential. For our analysis, we adapt a method by Pickl to the problem with dimensional reduction and rely on the derivation of the one-dimensional NLS equation for interactions with softer scaling behaviour.

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arXiv2018

Derivation of the 1d NLS equation from the 3d quantum many-body dynamics of strongly confined bosons

We consider the dynamics of $N$ interacting bosons initially exhibiting Bose-Einstein condensation. Due to an external trapping potential, the bosons are strongly confined in two spatial directions, with the transverse extension of the trap being of order $\varepsilon$. The non-negative interaction potential is scaled such that its scattering length is positive and of order $(N/\varepsilon^2)^{-1}$, the range of the interaction scales as $(N/\varepsilon^2)^{-β}$ for $β\in(0,1)$. We prove that in the simultaneous limit $N\rightarrow\infty$ and $\varepsilon\rightarrow 0$, the condensation is preserved by the dynamics and the time evolution is asymptotically described by a cubic defocusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation in one dimension, where the strength of the nonlinearity depends on the interaction and on the confining potential. This is the first derivation of a lower-dimensional effective evolution equation for singular potentials scaling with $β\geq\frac12$ and lays the foundations for the derivation of the physically relevant one-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation ($β=1$). For our analysis, we adapt an approach by Pickl to the problem with strong confinement.

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arXiv2017

On the Dipole Approximation with Error Estimates

The dipole approximation is employed to describe interactions between atoms and radiation. It essentially consists of neglecting the spatial variation of the external field over the atom. Heuristically, this is justified by arguing that the wavelength is considerably larger than the atomic length scale, which holds under usual experimental conditions. We prove the dipole approximation in the limit of infinite wavelengths compared to the atomic length scale and estimate the rate of convergence. Our results include N-body Coulomb potentials and experimentally relevant electromagnetic fields such as plane waves and laser pulses.

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