Derivation of the Gross-Pitaevskii hierarchy for the dynamics of Bose-Einstein condensate

Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1659-1741

  Erdos, László ^a   Schlein, Benjamin ^b,c   Yau, Horng Tzer ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33750551506     PISSN: 00103640     EISSN: 00103640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cpa.20123     Document Type: Article

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