Uniqueness of Single Peak Solutions for Coupled Nonlinear Gross-Pitaevskii Equations with Potentials

Abstract

For a couple of singularly perturbed Gross-Pitaevskii equations, we first prove that the single peak solutions, if they concentrate on the same point, are unique provided that the Taylor's expansion of potentials around the concentration point is in the same order along all directions. Among other assumptions, our results indicate that the peak solutions obtained in [21,31,38] are unique. Moreover, for the radially symmetric ring-shaped potential, which attains its minimum at the spheres$\Gamma_i:=\{x\in\mathbb{R}^N:|x|=A_i>0\},i=1,2,\cdots,l,$ and is totally degenerate in the tangential space of $\Gamma_i$, we prove that the positive ground state is cylindrically symmetric and is unique up to rotations around the origin. Aa far as we know, this is the first uniqueness result for ground states under radially symmetric but non-monotonic potentials.