陶哲轩博客写数学问题时，通常先把对象定义清楚，再给直觉、反例和证明轮廓。把「From Bose-Einstein condensates to the nonlinear Schrodinger equation」改写成可阅读的中文笔记，重点是：问题在问什么、已知到哪一步、下一步最容易走偏在哪。原站广告、分享条和导航已去掉。

问题在问什么

is the fundamental equation of motion for (non-relativistic) quantum mechanics, modeling both one-particle systems and -particle systems for . Remarkably, despite being a linear equation, solutions to this equation can be governed by a non-linear equation in the large particle limit . In particular, when modeling a Bose-Einstein condensate with a suitably scaled interaction potential in the large particle limit, the solution can be governed by the cubic nonlinear Schrödinger

I recently attended a talk by Natasa Pavlovic on the rigorous derivation of this type of limiting behaviour, which was initiated by the pioneering work of Hepp and Spohn, and has now attracted a vast recent literature. The rigorous details here are rather sophisticated; but the heuristic explanation of the phenomenon is fairly simple, and actually rather pretty in my opinion, involving the foundational quantum mechanics of -particle systems. I am recording this heuristic deri

已知结果和反例

This discussion will be purely formal, in the sense that (important) analytic issues such as differentiability, existence and uniqueness, etc. will be largely ignored.

The phenomena discussed here are purely quantum mechanical in nature, but to motivate the quantum mechanical discussion, it is helpful to first quickly review the more familiar (and more conceptually intuitive) classical situation.

证明或构造的主线

Classical mechanics can be formulated in a number of essentially equivalent ways: Newtonian , Hamiltonian , and Lagrangian . The formalism of Hamiltonian mechanics for a given physical system can be summarised briefly as follows:

more abstractly, just from the symplectic form on the phase space, the equations of motion can be written as

阅读时建议盯住的点

where is the symplectic gradient of . Hamilton’s equation of motion can also be expressed in a dual form in terms of observables , as Poisson’s equation of motion

for any observable , where is the Poisson bracket . One can express Poisson’s equation more abstractly as

值得单独记下的条目

• The complete state of the system at any given time is given (in the case of pure states ) by a point in the phase space .
• The physical system has a phase space of states (which is often parameterised as a complex-valued function of the position space). Mathematically, it has the structure of a complex Hilbert space , which is traditionally manipulated using br
• The complete state of the system at any given time is given (in the case of pure states ) by a unit vector in the phase space .
• There is a special observable, the Hamiltonian , which governs the evolution of the state through time, via Schrödinger’s equations of motion

阅读和落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 用自己的语言重写定义和结论，不看原文能不能说清对象是什么。
2. 找一个最小反例或边界情形，确认假设少一条会怎样。
3. 把证明拆成可独立检验的引理，每步只保留一个新想法。
4. 若涉及计算或形式化，先写可复现的小例子，再谈一般情形。
5. 记下尚未解决的缺口：缺估计、缺构造，还是缺正确的范畴。

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