From Bosonic Grand-Canonical Ensembles to Nonlinear Gibbs Measures

In a recent paper, in collaboration with Mathieu Lewin and Phan Th{`a}nh Nam, we showed that nonlinear Gibbs measures based on Gross-Pitaevskii like functionals could be derived from many-body quantum mechanics, in a mean-field limit. This text summarizes these findings. It focuses on the simplest, but most physically relevant, case we could treat so far, namely that of the defocusing cubic NLS functional on a 1D interval. The measure obtained in the limit, which (almost) lives over H^{1/2} , has been previously shown to be invariant under the NLS flow by Bourgain.