Wednesday, March 6, 2013

1303.0981 (Mathieu Lewin et al.)

Derivation of Hartree's theory for generic mean-field Bose systems    [PDF]

Mathieu Lewin, Phan Thành Nam, Nicolas Rougerie
In this paper we provide a novel strategy to prove the validity of Hartree's theory for the ground state energy of bosonic quantum systems in the mean-field regime. For the well-known case of trapped Bose gases, this can be shown using the strong quantum de Finetti theorem, which gives the structure of infinite hierarchies of k-particles density matrices. Here we deal with the case where some particles are allowed to escape to infinity, leading to a lack of compactness. Our approach is based on two ingredients: (1) a weak version of the quantum de Finetti theorem, and (2) geometric techniques for many-body systems. Our strategy does not rely on any special property of the interaction between the particles. In particular, our results cover those of Benguria-Lieb and Lieb-Yau for, respectively, bosonic atoms and boson stars.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.0981

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