Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2017 iii Paper 343 1 iii Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-06
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 becomesMultiplication by and use of the bulk limit yield the first integralfor the increasing wall profile. Integrating gives the hard-wall condensate healing profileThe 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.