On the Thomas-Fermi ground state in a harmonic potential

Asymptotic Analysis

Volumn 73, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 53-96

  Gallo, Clément ^a   Pelinovsky, Dmitry ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bose Einstein; Gross Pitaevskii equation; ground state; hydrodynamics limit; Painlev II; Thomas Fermi

Indexed keywords

BOSE-EINSTEIN; EIGENVALUES; GROSS-PITAEVSKII EQUATION; HARMONIC POTENTIAL; NON-LINEAR; ONE DIMENSION; PAINLEVE; SPATIAL SCALE; THOMAS-FERMI; THOMAS-FERMI APPROXIMATION; THREE DIMENSIONS; VARIATIONAL METHODS;

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

GROUND STATE;

EID: 79957872154     PISSN: 09217134     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/ASY-2011-1034     Document Type: Article

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