On the Thomas–Fermi Approximation of the Ground State in a ‐Symmetric Confining Potential

For the stationary Gross–Pitaevskii equation with harmonic real and linear imaginary potentials in the space of one dimension, we study the ground state in the limit of large densities (large chemical potentials), where the solution degenerates into a compact Thomas–Fermi approximation. We prove that the Thomas–Fermi approximation can be constructed by using the unstable manifold theorem for a planar dynamical system. To justify the …