Bogoliubov excitation spectrum of trapped Bose gases in the Gross-Pitaevskii regime

Abstract

We consider an inhomogeneous system of $N$ bosons in $\mathbb{R}^3$ confined by an external potential and interacting via a repulsive potential of the form $N^2 V(N(x-y))$. We prove that the low-energy excitation spectrum of the system is determined by the eigenvalues of an effective one-particle operator, which agrees with Bogoliubov's approximation.