Derivation of the 3D quintic Gross--Pitaevskii equation
Abstract
We study the time evolution of Bose--Einstein condensates with three-body interactions in the Gross--Pitaevskii regime. We show that Bose--Einstein condensation is preserved under many-body evolution and that the condensate wavefunction evolves according to the quintic Gross--Pitaevskii equation in $\mathbb{R}^3$, which is energy critical. In particular, we show that the effective coupling constant is universal and depends only on a three-body scattering hypervolume.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Advanced Mathematical Physics Problems
Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates
Spectral Theory in Mathematical Physics
Publication details
- Journal / source
- arXiv (Cornell University)
- Publication date
- 6 February 2026
- Document type
- Preprint