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Journal of Computational Physics

A minimisation approach for computing the ground state of Gross–Pitaevskii systems

Marco Caliari A, Alexander Ostermann, Stefan Rainer, Mechthild Thalhammer

Published Oct 3, 2008• 55 citations
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10.1016/j.jcp.2008.09.018

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The ground state of a quantum system is the minimizer of the total energy of that system. The aim of this thesis is to present and numerically solve the Gross-Pitaevskii eigenvalue problem (GPE) as a physical model for the formation of ground states of dilute Bose gases at ultra-low temperatures in a disordered potential. The first part of the report introduces the quantum mechanical phenomenon that arises at ground states of the Bose gases; the Anderson localization, and presents the nonlinear eigenvalue problem and the finite element method (FEM) used to discretize the GPE. The numerical method used to solve the eigenvalue problem for the smallest eigenvalue is called the inverse power iteration method, which is presented and explained. In the second part of the report, the smallest eigenvalue of a linear Schrödinger equation is compared with the numerically computed smallest eigenvalue (ground state) in order to evaluate the accuracy of a linear numerical scheme constructed as first step for numerically solving the non-linear problem. In the next part of the report, the numerical methods are implemented to solve for the eigenvalue and eigenfunction of the (non-linear) GPE at ground state (smallest eigenvalue). The mathematical expression for the quantum energy and smallest eigenvalue of the non-linear system are presented in the report. The methods used to solve the GPE are the FEM and inverse power iteration method and different instances of the Anderson localization are produced. The study shows that the error of the smallest eigenvalue approximation for the linear case without disorder is satisfying when using FEM and Power iteration method. The accuracy of the approximation obtained for the linear case without disorder is satisfying, even for a low numbers of iterations. The methods require many more iterations for solving the GPE with a strong disorder. On the other hand, pronounced instances of Anderson localizations are produced in a certain scaling regime. The study shows that the GPE indeed works well as a physical model for the Anderson localization.