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Bosons in a Trap: A Rigorous Derivation of the Gross-Pitaevskii Energy Functional

Elliott H. Lieb, Robert Seiringer, Jakob Yngvason

math-pharXiv:math-ph/9908027

Abstract

The ground state properties of interacting Bose gases in external potentials, as considered in recent experiments, are usually described by means of the Gross-Pitaevskii energy functional. We present here the first proof of the asymptotic exactness of this approximation for the ground state energy and particle density of a dilute Bose gas with a positive interaction.

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