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We report on some recent results regarding the dynamical behavior of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate, in the limit of a large number of particles. These results were obtained in [4], a joint work with L. Erdős and H.-T. Yau.
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Schlein, B. (2006). Derivation of the Gross-Pitaevskii Hierarchy. In: Asch, J., Joye, A. (eds) Mathematical Physics of Quantum Mechanics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 690. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-34273-7_20
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