An impenetrable hard wall imposes the Dirichlet boundary condition . Choose the bulk complex argument to be zero and write a stationary solution as with as . The dimensional Gross–Pitaevskii equation becomes
Multiplication by and use of the bulk limit yield the first integral
for the increasing wall profile. Integrating gives the hard-wall condensate healing profile
The PDF's expression without the factor is correct for the normalized number density , not for the dimensional number density defined at the start of the paper. For example, a bulk number density must approach , whereas the literal printed expression approaches . If both number density and coordinates in this part are understood to have already been normalized, the same result reads and the dimensionless width is . These are two descriptions of the same profile, not different physical healing lengths.