Rigorous derivation of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation

Phys Rev Lett. 2007 Jan 26;98(4):040404. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.040404. Epub 2007 Jan 26.

Abstract

The time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation describes the dynamics of initially trapped Bose-Einstein condensates. We present a rigorous proof of this fact starting from a many-body bosonic Schrödinger equation with a short-scale repulsive interaction in the dilute limit. Our proof shows the persistence of an explicit short-scale correlation structure in the condensate.