# 格罗斯–皮塔耶夫斯基方程 Gross–Pitaevskii equation

The Gross–Pitaevskii equation (GPE, named after Eugene P. Gross and Lev Petrovich Pitaevskii) describes the ground state of a quantum system of identical bosons using the Hartree–Fock approximation and the pseudopotential interaction model.

A Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) is a gas of bosons that are in the same quantum state, and thus can be described by the same wavefunction. A free quantum particle is described by a single-particle Schrödinger equation. Interaction between particles in a real gas is taken into account by a pertinent many-body Schrödinger equation.

GPE is a model equation for the ground-state single-particle wavefunction in a Bose–Einstein condensate. It is similar in form to the Ginzburg–Landau equation and is sometimes referred to as the “nonlinear Schrödinger equation”.

The non-linearity of the Gross–Pitaevskii equation has its origin in the interaction between the particles: setting the coupling constant of interaction in the Gross–Pitaevskii equation to zero (see the following section) recovers the single-particle Schrödinger equation describing a particle inside a trapping potential.

The Gross-Pitaevskii equation is said to be limited to the weakly interacting regime. Nevertheless, it may also fail to reproduce interesting phenomena even within this regime. In order to study the BEC beyond that limit of weak interactions, one needs to implement the Lee-Huang-Yang (LHY) correction. Alternatively, in 1D systems one can use either an exact approach, namely the Lieb-Liniger model, or an extended equation, e.g. the Lieb-Liniger Gross-Pitaevskii equation (sometimes called modified or generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation.

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