On the nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation with a toroidal trap in the strong confinement regime

Abstract

We consider the 3D cubic nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (NLS) with a strong toroidal trap. In the first part, we show that as the confinement is strengthened, a large class of global solutions to the time-dependent model can be described by 1D flows solving the 1D periodic NLS (Theorem 1.4). In the second part, we construct a steady state as a constrained energy minimizer, and prove its dimension reduction to the well-known 1D periodic ground state (Theorem 1.6 and 1.7). Then, employing the dimension reduction limit, we establish the local uniqueness and the orbital stability of the 3D ring soliton (Theorem 1.8). These results justify the emergence of stable quasi-1D periodic dynamics for Bose-Einstein condensates on a ring in physics experiments.