Vortices and Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in Rotating Bose Gases - Seiringer, Robert; QMath: Mathematical Results in Quantum Physics (World Scientific Publishing, 2008)
We present a rigorous proof of the appearance of quantized vortices in dilute trapped Bose gases with repulsive two-body interactions subject to rotation, which was obtained recently in joint work with Elliott Lieb.14 Starting from the many-body Schrödinger equation, we show that the ground state of such gases is, in a suitable limit, well described by the nonlinear Gross-Pitaevskii equation. In the case of axially symmetric traps, our results show that the appearance of quantized vortices causes spontaneous symmetry breaking in the ground state.
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