The Bose gas in a box with Neumann boundary conditions

Abstract

We consider a gas of bosonic particles confined in a box with Neumann boundary conditions. We prove Bose-Einstein condensation in the Gross-Pitaevskii regime, with an optimal bound on the condensate depletion. Our lower bound for the ground state energy in the box implies (via Neumann bracketing) a lower bound for the ground state energy of the Bose gas in the thermodynamic limit.