Inhomogeneities and temperature effects in Bose-Einstein condensates
Apparaît également dans la collection : New challenges in mathematical modelling and numerical simulation of superfluids / Nouveaux défis dans la modélisation mathématique et la simulation numérique de systèmes superfluides
We will review in this talk some mathematical results concerning stochastic models used by physicist to describe BEC in the presence of fluctuations (that may arise from inhomogeneities in the confinement parameters), or BEC at finite temperature. The results describe the effect of those fluctuations on the structures - e.g. vortices - which are present in the deterministic model, or the convergence to equilibrium in the models at finite temperature. We will also describe the numerical methods which have been developed for those models in the framework of the ANR project Becasim. These are joint works with Reika Fukuizumi, Arnaud Debussche, and Romain Poncet.