Stabilization against collapse of 2D attractive Bose-Einstein condensates with repulsive, three-body interactions

Abstract

We consider a trapped Bose gas of $N$ identical bosons in two dimensional space with both an attractive, two-body, scaled interaction and a repulsive, three-body, scaled interaction respectively of the form $-aN^{2\alpha-1} U(N^\alpha \cdot)$ and $bN^{4\beta-2} W(N^\beta \cdot, N^\beta \cdot))$, where $a,b,\alpha,\beta>0$ and $\int_{\mathbb R^2}U(x) {\mathop{}\mathrm{d}} x = 1 = \iint_{\mathbb R^{4}} W(x,y) {\mathop{}\mathrm{d}} x {\mathop{}\mathrm{d}} y$. We derive rigorously the cubic--quintic nonlinear Schr\"odinger semiclassical theory as the mean-field limit of the model and we investigate the behavior of the system in the double-limit $a = a_N \to a_*$ and $b = b_N \searrow 0$. Moreover, we also consider the homogeneous problem where the trapping potential is removed.