Mathematical analysis of a Muñoz-Delgado model for cigar-shaped Bose-Einstein condensates

Abstract

In this paper we present mathematical analysis of one-dimensional effective models proposed in [\cite{MunozDelgado}] concerning Bose-Einstein condensates in the presence of harmonic confinement. Among the demonstrated properties, we can mention: existence, uniqueness, orbital stability, symmetry and gaussian asymptotic decay of ground-state solutions in the repulsive case. We also report formulæ for the minimal energy $E_{\mn}$ and the associate chemical potential $\mu$ as functions of a parameter $\lambda$, which is related to $N$ (the number of atoms) and/or $a$ (the s-wave scattering length). By considering Taylor's development of the non-quadratic therm of the energy and using appropriate gaussian functions as approximations for the ground state, we present some numerical experiments to illustrate our results.

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