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Phase diagram of rotating Bose-Einstein condensates trapped in power-law and hard-wall potentials

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Pith's one-line read Power-law and hard-wall traps produce opposite central-density behavior in rotating Bose-Einstein condensates as rotation frequency rises.

desk verdict Metadata and abstract describe a rotating-BEC vortex phase diagram, but the supplied body is an unrelated martingale paper; nothing in the BEC claims can be checked. read the letter →

arxiv 2603.29738 v2 pith:F33OSXSE submitted 2026-03-31 cond-mat.quant-gas physics.atom-phquant-ph

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keywords Bose-Einsteincondensaterotatingvortexphasediagrampower-lawtraphard-wallmultiplyquantizedvorticesquasi-two-dimensional
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This paper maps the rotational phase diagram of a quasi-two-dimensional, weakly interacting Bose-Einstein condensate in two families of traps: smooth power-law potentials and hard-wall containers. At weak interactions the condensate jumps discontinuously between multiply quantized vortex states as the trap rotation frequency is raised. Stronger interactions turn those jumps into continuous transitions into mixed states that combine singly and multiply quantized vortices. The central, experimentally accessible distinction is that hard-wall traps always destabilize first into states that keep nonzero density at the origin, while power-law traps empty the center as rotation increases. The two confinement types also produce distinct scaling laws that collapse their respective phase diagrams.

What carries the argument

The rotational energy functional (or equivalent mean-field Gross-Pitaevskii description) of a quasi-two-dimensional condensate in a rotating frame, whose minimization with respect to vortex multiplicity and density profile produces the phase boundaries and the central-density dichotomy.

What would settle it

Measure the central column density of a rotating quasi-two-dimensional condensate while ramping rotation frequency: hard-wall confinement must keep finite central density at the first instability, while power-law confinement must empty the center; any opposite behavior falsifies the claimed dichotomy.

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Core claim

In the weakly interacting, quasi-two-dimensional regime the rotational phase diagram of a Bose-Einstein condensate is qualitatively different under power-law versus hard-wall confinement: hard-wall traps always lose stability first to states with finite central density, whereas power-law traps drive the density at the origin to zero with increasing rotation frequency; weak interactions produce discontinuous transitions between multiply quantized vortices, while stronger interactions produce continuous transitions into mixed singly- and multiply-quantized states, and each confinement class yields its own scaling properties for the phase diagram.

Load-bearing premise

Everything is calculated inside the quasi-two-dimensional, weakly interacting mean-field regime; if three-dimensional excitations or strong-interaction corrections become important the predicted transitions and central-density contrast can change.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The submission metadata and abstract claim a study of the rotational phase diagram of a quasi-two-dimensional, weakly interacting Bose–Einstein condensate in power-law and hard-wall traps. The abstract asserts discontinuous transitions between multiply quantized vortex states at weak interactions, continuous transitions to mixed singly/multiply quantized states at stronger interactions, a qualitative dichotomy in central density between the two confinements, and associated scaling properties of the phase diagrams. The body of the manuscript that was supplied, however, is an unrelated probability paper (Nishiyama, arXiv:2603.29739) on oracle maximal inequalities for submartingales, finite approximation devices, infinite-dimensional Lenglart inequalities, and Donsker theorems for separable martingale random fields and empirical processes. No Gross–Pitaevskii energy functional, vortex ansätze, numerical phase diagrams, or BEC-related derivations appear.

Significance. If the abstract’s claims were supported by a correct manuscript, the reported qualitative distinction between power-law and hard-wall traps (central density vanishing versus remaining finite) would be of genuine experimental interest for rotating ultracold gases. Because the supplied full text belongs to a different paper, none of those claims can be verified, and the scientific significance of the actual submission cannot be assessed.

major comments (2)
  1. Title, abstract and arXiv identifier (2603.29738, cond-mat.quant-gas) describe a BEC phase-diagram paper, yet the entire body (Sections 1–5, Lemmas 4–8, Theorems 10–18, Appendix) is the unrelated martingale/empirical-process manuscript arXiv:2603.29739. No energy functional, rotation term, vortex trial wave functions, or phase-diagram figures for the claimed BEC problem are present. The central scientific claims of the abstract are therefore unsupported by any verifiable derivation or data in the submitted text.
  2. Because the body does not treat rotating BECs, the load-bearing assertions of the abstract—discontinuous-to-continuous transition with interaction strength, the hard-wall versus power-law central-density dichotomy, and the claimed scaling properties—cannot be checked for correctness, completeness of the mean-field regime, or experimental observability. A referee report on the physics content is impossible until the correct manuscript is supplied.
minor comments (1)
  1. The supplied text itself (the probability paper) contains ordinary presentation issues (occasional typographical slips such as “puseudomentirc”, “indistinguishability” conventions, and dense notation), but these are irrelevant to the BEC submission under review.

Circularity Check

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No circularity: the supplied manuscript is a self-contained derivation of oracle maximal inequalities and their consequences for martingale random fields; the BEC abstract/metadata is mismatched and supplies no equations to audit.

full rationale

The body text is Nishiyama's probability paper (arXiv:2603.29739) on oracle maximal inequalities for submartingales and squares of martingales, proved via integration by parts and Doob decomposition (Lemmas 7-8), followed by a finite-approximation device (Lemma 4) that lifts finite-dimensional bounds to separable/totally-bounded infinite-dimensional cases, then infinite-dimensional Lenglart inequalities and weak-convergence theorems in ell^infty. All load-bearing steps are derived from first principles inside the paper; self-citations (own earlier martingale CLTs and book) supply only historical context and are not used to force the new OMIs or the Donsker-type conclusions. No parameters are fitted to data, no uniqueness theorem is imported to forbid alternatives, and no known empirical pattern is merely renamed. The BEC phase-diagram abstract and title that appear in the metadata have no corresponding equations, energy functionals, or vortex ansätze in the supplied text, so they cannot be examined for circularity. Honest finding: zero circularity in the actual derivation chain that is present.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 2 assumptions · 0 invented entities

Abstract-only review. The load-bearing modeling choices that must be true for the phase diagram to hold are the quasi-2D reduction, weak-interaction (mean-field) regime, and the idealization of pure power-law versus pure hard-wall confinement. No free parameters or invented entities are visible in the abstract.

assumptions (2)
  • domain assumption The condensate is accurately described by a quasi-two-dimensional weakly-interacting mean-field theory (Gross-Pitaevskii or equivalent energy functional).
    Stated in the opening sentence of the abstract; all subsequent phase-diagram claims rest on it.
  • domain assumption Power-law and hard-wall traps can be treated as pure limiting cases without intermediate anharmonicities or finite-wall softness.
    The qualitative dichotomy is claimed for these two ideal confinements; real experiments always have some intermediate character.

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read the original abstract

We investigate the rotational phase diagram of a quasi-two-dimensional, weakly-interacting Bose-Einstein condensate confined in power-law and in hard-wall trapping potentials. For weak interactions, the system undergoes discontinuous transitions between multiply-quantized vortex states as the rotation frequency of the trap increases. In contrast, stronger interactions induce continuous phase transitions toward mixed states involving both singly and multiply-quantized vortex states. A central result is the qualitative (and experimentally observable) difference between power-law and hard-wall confinement: In hard-wall traps, the leading instability always involves states with nonzero density at the trap center, whereas in power-law traps the density vanishes as the rotation frequency increases. The two different types of confinement give rise to scaling properties in the derived phase diagrams.

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