We study the decay of Bogoliubov quasiparticles in one-dimensional Bose gases. Starting from the hydrodynamic Hamiltonian, we develop a microscopic theory that enables one to systematically study both the excitations and their decay. At zero temperature, the leading mechanism of decay of a quasiparticle is disintegration into three others. We find that low-energy quasiparticles (phonons) decay with the rate that scales with the seventh power of momentum, whereas the rate of decay of the high-energy quasiparticles does not depend on momentum. In addition, our approach allows us to study analytically the quasiparticle decay in the whole crossover region between the two limiting cases. When applied to integrable models, including the Lieb-Liniger model of bosons with contact repulsion, our theory confirms the absence of the decay of quasiparticle excitations. We account for two types of integrability-breaking perturbations that enable finite decay: three-body interaction between the bosons and two-body interaction of finite range.
In a one-dimensional weakly interacting Bose-Fermi mixture, one branch of elementary excitations is well described by the Bogoliubov spectrum. Here we use the microscopic theory to study the decay of such quasiparticle excitations. The main scattering process which leads to their decay is the backscattering of a Bogoliubov quasiparticle off the Fermi sea, where a particle-hole pair is excited. For a low-momentum quasiparticle (phonon) of momentum
q, we find that the decay rate scales as
q3 provided
q is smaller than the Fermi momentum
kF, while in the opposite case the decay behaves as
q2. If the ratio of the masses of fermions and bosons is equal to the ratio of the boson-fermion and the boson-boson interaction strengths, the decay rate changes dramatically. It scales as
q7 for
q<kF, while we find
q6 scaling at
q>kF. For a high-momentum Bogoliubov quasiparticle, we find a constant decay rate for
q<kF, while it scales as
1/q for
q>kF. We also find an analytic expression for the decay rate in the crossover region between low and high momenta. The decay rate is a continuous, but nonanalytic function of the momentum at
q=kF. In the special case when the parameters of our system correspond to the integrable model, we observe that the decay rate vanishes.
In a one-dimensional Bose gas, there is no nontrivial scattering channel involving three Bogoliubov quasiparticles that conserves both energy and momentum. Nevertheless, we show that such three-wave mixing processes (Beliaev and Landau damping) account for their decay via interactions with thermal fluctuations. Within an appropriate time window where the Fermi golden rule is expected to apply, the occupation number of the initially occupied mode decays exponentially and the rate takes a simple analytic form. The result is shown to compare favorably with simulations based on the truncated Wigner approximation. It is also shown that the same processes slow down the exponential growth of phonons induced by a parametric oscillation.
In the presence of dipolar interactions, the excitation spectrum of a Bose gas can acquire a local minimum.The corresponding quasiparticles are known as rotons.They are gapped and do not decay at zero temperature.Here we study the decay of rotons in one-dimensional Bose gases at low temperatures.It predominantly occurs due to the backscattering of thermal phonons on rotons.The resulting rate scales with the third power of temperature and is inversely proportional to the sixth power of the roton gap near the solidification phase transition.The hydrodynamic approach used here enables us to find the decay rate for quasiparticles at practically any momenta, with minimal assumptions on the exact form of the interparticle interactions.Our results are an essential prerequisite for the description of all the dissipative phenomena in dipolar gases and have direct experimental relevance.
We study elementary excitations of a system of one-dimensional bosons with weak contact repulsion. We show that the Gross-Pitaevskii regime, in which the excitations are the well-known Bogoliubov quasiparticles and dark solitons, does not extend to the low-energy limit. Instead, the spectra of both excitations have finite curvatures at zero momentum, in agreement with the phenomenological picture of fermionic quasiparticles. We describe analytically the crossover between the Gross-Pitaevskii and the low-energy regimes, and discuss implications of our results for the behavior of the dynamic structure factor.