Uniform semiclassical approximations of the nonlinear Schroedinger equation by a Painleve mapping
arXiv:quant-ph/0608099 · doi:10.1088/0305-4470/39/47/012
Abstract
A useful semiclassical method to calculate eigenfunctions of the Schroedinger equation is the mapping to a well-known ordinary differential equation, as for example Airy's equation. In this paper we generalize the mapping procedure to the nonlinear Schroedinger equation or Gross-Pitaevskii equation describing the macroscopic wave function of a Bose-Einstein condensate. The nonlinear Schroedinger equation is mapped to the second Painleve equation, which is one of the best-known differential equations with a cubic nonlinearity. A quantization condition is derived from the connection formulae of these functions. Comparison with numerically exact results for a harmonic trap demonstrates the benefit of the mapping method. Finally we discuss the influence of a shallow periodic potential on bright soliton solutions by a mapping to a constant potential.
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