Dimension reduction for dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates in the strong interaction regime

We study dimension reduction for the three-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation with a long-range and anisotropic dipole-dipole interaction modeling dipolar Bose-Einstein condensation in a strong interaction regime. The cases of disk shaped condensates (confinement from dimension three to dimension two) and cigar shaped condensates (confinement to dimension one) are analyzed. In both cases, the analysis combines averaging tools and semiclassical techniques. Asymptotic models are derived, with rates of convergence in terms of two small dimensionless parameters characterizing the strength of the confinement and the strength of the interaction between atoms.

Existence of nodal solutions for Dirac equations with singular nonlinearities

We prove, by a shooting method, the existence of infinitely many solutions of the form $psi(x^0,x) = e^{-iOmega x^0}chi(x)$ of the nonlinear Dirac equation {equation*} iunderset{mu=0}{overset{3}{sum}} gamma^mu partial_mu psi- mpsi - F(bar{psi}psi)psi = 0 {equation*} where $Omega>m>0,$ $chi$ is compactly supported and [F(x) = {{array}{ll} p|x|^{p-1} & text{if} |x|>0 0 & text{if} x=0 {array}.] with $pin(0,1),$ under some restrictions on the parameters $p$ and $Omega.$ We study also the behavior of the solutions as $p$ tends to zero to establish the link between these equations and the M.I.T. bag model ones.

A variational study of some hadron bag models

Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is the theory of strong interaction and accounts for the internal structure of hadrons. Physicists introduced phe- nomenological models such as the M.I.T. bag model, the bag approximation and the soliton bag model to study the hadronic properties. We prove, in this paper, the existence of excited state solutions in the symmetric case and of a ground state solution in the non-symmetric case for the soliton bag and the bag approximation models thanks to the concentration compactness method. We show that the energy functionals of the bag approximation model are Gamma -limits of sequences of soliton bag model energy functionals for the ground and excited state problems. The pre- compactness, up to translation, of the sequence of ground state solutions associated with the soliton bag energy functionals in the non-symmetric case is obtained combining the Gamma -convergence theory and the concentration-compactness method. Finally, we give a rigorous proof of the original derivation of the M.I.T. bag equations done by Chodos, Jaffe, Johnson, Thorn and Weisskopf via a limit of bag approximation ground state solutions in the spherical case. The supersymmetry property of the Dirac operator is the key point in many of our arguments.