{ "id": "0711.2694", "version": "v1", "published": "2007-11-16T22:39:35.000Z", "updated": "2007-11-16T22:39:35.000Z", "title": "Bounds on the tight-binding approximation for the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a periodic potential", "authors": [ "Dmitry Pelinovsky", "Guido Schneider" ], "comment": "9 pages, 2 figures", "categories": [ "math-ph", "math.DS", "math.MP" ], "abstract": "We justify the validity of the discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equation for the tight-binding approximation in the context of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a periodic potential. Our construction of the periodic potential and the associated Wannier functions is based on the previous work, while our analysis involving energy estimates and Gronwall's inequality addresses time-dependent localized solutions on large but finite time intervals.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2007-11-16T22:39:35.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "periodic potential", "gross-pitaevskii equation", "tight-binding approximation", "inequality addresses time-dependent localized solutions", "discrete nonlinear schrodinger equation" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 9, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2007arXiv0711.2694P" } } }