In this paper we present the construction of the equilibrium states at positive temperature in the presence of a condensation phase for a Gas of non relativistic Bose particles on an infinite space interacting through a localised two body interaction. We use methods of quantum field theory in the algebraic formulation to obtain this result and in order to prove convergence of the partition function and of the generating function of the correlation functions, we introduce an auxiliary stochastic Gaussian field which mediates the interaction of the Bose particles (Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation). The construction of the equilibrium state and of the partition function in the presence of the condensate, treating the auxiliary stochastic field as external potential, can be achieved using and adapting ideas and methods of Araki. Explicit formulas for the relative entropy of the equilibrium state with the external potential with respect to the equilibrium state of the free theory are obtained adapting known Feynman-Kac formulas for the propagators of the theory. If the two-body interaction is sufficiently weak, the proof of the convergence of the partition function after evaluation of the external stochastic field on a suitable Gaussian state can be given utilizing the properties of the relative entropy mentioned above. Limits where the localisation of the two-body interaction is removed are eventually discussed in combination of the limits of vanishing temperature and or in the weakly interacting regime.
In this paper we present the construction of the equilibrium states at positive temperature in the presence of a condensation phase for a Gas of non relativistic Bose particles on an infinite space interacting through a localised two body interaction. We use methods of quantum field theory in the algebraic formulation to obtain this result and in order to prove convergence of the partition function and of the generating function of the correlation functions, we introduce an auxiliary stochastic Gaussian field which mediates the interaction of the Bose particles (Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation). The construction of the equilibrium state and of the partition function in the presence of the condensate, treating the auxiliary stochastic field as external potential, can be achieved using and adapting ideas and methods of Araki. Explicit formulas for the relative entropy of the equilibrium state with the external potential with respect to the equilibrium state of the free theory are obtained adapting known Feynman-Kac formulas for the propagators of the theory. If the two-body interaction is sufficiently weak, the proof of the convergence of the partition function after evaluation of the external stochastic field on a suitable Gaussian state can be given utilizing the properties of the relative entropy mentioned above. Limits where the localisation of the two-body interaction is removed are eventually discussed in combination of the limits of vanishing temperature and or in the weakly interacting regime.
In this paper, we present the construction of equilibrium states for a gas of weakly interacting non-relativistic bosons, focusing on the case of a non-trivial background field in infinitely extended space. Building upon a method introduced by Araki and further developed by Fredenhagen and Lindner, we derive the generating function of the correlation functions of the theory as a suitable series. By applying a Hubbard-Stratonovich transformation, we rewrite this quantity into a more mathematically tractable form, allowing us to establish the convergence of the corresponding loop vertex expansion in certain intermediate regimes. Furthermore, we isolate the tree diagrams that produce the scattering length in the dispersion relations of the two-point function of the state within the Gross-Pitaevskii regime. Finally, we use this scattering length to renormalise the background and the two-point function of the fluctuations and we discuss convergence of the generating function of the connected correlation functions of the renormalised theory in the limit of vanishing temperature.
In this thesis interacting relativistic and non relativistic Quantum Field Theories (QFT) are studied, investigating their equilibrium configurations and their long time evolution in the framework of perturbative Algebraic Quantum Field Theory, studying also convergence in a specific model. In the first part, concerning the relativistic case, we study, in formal perturbation theory, interacting KMS states generalising results by Fredenhagen and Lindner to fermionic field theories. As an application their stability is investigated together with the characterisation of the Debye screening effect in plasmas via the explicit solution of the Semiclassical Maxwell equations. Connected to these results, we also initiate a systematic study of secular growths appearing in the truncated perturbative series and affecting the validity of perturbation theory in its long time predicting capability. We restrict to theories on Minkowski spacetime and provide, for interactions depending on time via a switching process, a sufficient condition preventing secular growths in the truncated perturbative series. In the second part, we focus on a model of non relativistic quantum field theory. We construct equilibrium states at positive temperature in the presence of a condensation phase for a gas of non relativistic Bose particles on an infinite space interacting through a localised two body interaction. The convergence is proven, both for the interacting KMS state and for the entropy of the interacting KMS state relative to the free KMS state. The strategy of our proof combines ideas of Algebraic QFT, Constructive QFT and methods of statistical mechanics in the operator algebraic setting. Limits where the localisation of the two-body interaction is removed are eventually discussed, in combination with limits of the other physical parameters of the theory such as temperature, strength of the interaction and chemical potential. Finally, in the appendix, we present results on the Araki-Uhlmann relative entropy in fermionic quantum field theories, as well as an entropy-area relation, obtained via semiclassical methods, for the cosmological horizon in the static patch of de Sitter spacetime sourced by a coherent excitation of a free quantum scalar field. This completes the collection of original results obtained during the PhD.
We prove that the grand canonical Gibbs state of an interacting quantum Bose gas converges to the Gibbs measure of a nonlinear Schrödinger equation in the mean-field limit, where the density of the gas becomes large and the interaction strength is proportional to the inverse density. Our results hold in dimensions d ⩽ 3 d \leqslant 3 . For d > 1 d > 1 the Gibbs measure is supported on distributions of negative regularity and we have to renormalize the interaction. More precisely, we prove the convergence of the relative partition function and of the reduced density matrices in the L r L^r -norm with optimal exponent r r . Moreover, we prove the convergence in the L ∞ L^\infty -norm of Wick-ordered reduced density matrices, which allows us to control correlations of Wick-ordered particle densities as well as the asymptotic distribution of the particle number. Our proof is based on a functional integral representation of the grand canonical Gibbs state, in which convergence to the mean-field limit follows formally from an infinite-dimensional stationary phase argument for ill-defined non-Gaussian measures. We make this argument rigorous by introducing a white-noise-type auxiliary field, through which the functional integral is expressed in terms of propagators of heat equations driven by time-dependent periodic random potentials and can, in turn, be expressed as a gas of interacting Brownian loops and paths. When the gas is confined by an external trapping potential, we control the decay of the reduced density matrices using excursion probabilities of Brownian bridges.
The topic of Bose–Einstein condensation in a uniform, non-interacting gas of bosons is treated in most textbooks on statistical mechanics. In the present chapter we discuss the properties of a non-interacting Bose gas in a trap. We shall calculate equilibrium properties of systems in a semi-classical approximation, in which the energy spectrum is treated as a continuum. For this approach to be valid the temperature must be large compared with Δ∊/ k , where Δ∊ denotes the separation between neighbouring energy levels. As is well known, at temperatures below the Bose–Einstein condensation temperature, the lowest-energy state is not properly accounted for if one simply replaces sums by integrals, and it must be included explicitly. The statistical distribution function is discussed in Sec. 2.1, as is the single-particle density of states, which is a key ingredient in the calculations of thermodynamic properties. Calculations of the transition temperature and the fraction of particles in the condensate are described in Sec. 2.2. In Sec. 2.3 the semi-classical distribution function is introduced. From this we obtain the density profile and the velocity distribution of particles, and use these to determine the shape of an anisotropic cloud after free expansion. Thermodynamic properties of Bose gases are calculated as functions of the temperature in Sec. 2.4. Finally, Sec. 2.5 treats corrections to the transition temperature due to a finite particle number.
Quantum systems consisting of many particles are both interesting from the physics and the mathematics perspective. One aspect that makes them fascinating from the physics point of view is that they can exhibit quantum effects on macroscopic scales such as Bose-Einstein condensation. This phenomenon, first predicted 100 years ago by Bose [19] and Einstein [44], occurs when a dilute gas of bosons is cooled down to very low temperatures. Below a certain critical temperature a condensate forms, meaning that a macroscopic fraction of the particles is in the same one-particle state, and thus, quantum phenomena become relevant on length scales much larger than the individual atom. The occurrence of Bose-Einstein condensation is also related to superfluidity as suggested in [88]. Bose-Einstein condensation has been achieved experimentally independently by the groups of Cornell and Wieman [3] and Ketterle [40] earning them a Nobel prize in 2001. While Bose and Einstein analyzed theoretically the non-interacting gas, an effective theory describing weakly interacting Bose gases was proposed by Bogoliubov in 1947 with the goal of explaining the occurrence of superfluidity in liquid helium [18]. Using assumptions such as that condensation indeed occurs, his theory yields predictions for the low-energy states of the system. Seen from the mathematics perspective, describing the Bose gas is an interesting challenge due to the strong correlations between particles introduced by the interaction making this case much harder to study than the non-interacting one. In particular, a proof that Bose-Einstein condensation occurs in the thermodynamic limit for continuous systems is still out of reach. However, there has been a lot of work regarding the rigorous analysis of bosonic systems in various relevant regimes. This thesis contains three new contributions establishing rigorous results on bosonic systems in different, physically relevant settings. It is based on the articles [37, 27, 31]. The first result concerns the time-evolution of initially trapped Bose gases in the ultra-dilute Gross-Pitaevskii regime. Under some assumptions on the initial data satisfied in particular by a class of states that are expected to approximate the ground state in a trap, we derive a quasi-free approximation that is close to the true solution in L2-norm. In particular, we show that this approximate wave function is described in terms of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a one-particle state following the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation together with pair excitations with respect to this condensate. As a corollary, we establish a central limit theorem for bounded one-particle observables. The second result is a simple proof of Bose-Einstein condensation for interacting, ultra-dilute gases. More specifically, we consider scalings interpolating between the Gross-Pitaevskii regime and the thermodynamic limit. While condensation had been shown to hold in these regimes before, the advantage of the method used here is its simplicity. Lastly, the third result establishes an upper bound on the ground state energy of a dilute Bose gas in the thermodynamic limit. It captures rigorously the third order correction to the energy per unit volume for sufficiently low densities as predicted in the physics literature first by Wu and subsequently others. Full-text embargoed until: 2026-01-01
The theory of non-interacting Bose gases is supplemented by a numerical quantum field description with a two-dimensional non-local order parameter that allows the modeling of wave-like atomic correlations and interference effects in the limit of low atomic densities. From the present model, it is possible to explain symmetry aspects of non-interacting and very weakly interacting Bose gases in the limit of fluctuating particle numbers, like the forward propagation of time and the relation to the breaking and preservation of phase gauge symmetry in solids. In the present formalism, the propagation of one-directional time arises from the pre-defined and equivalent convergence of independent quantum fields towards the Boltzmann equilibrium, and it is shown that Glauber coherent states are related to the definition of the quantized field. Coherently coupling condensate and non-condensate parts as a direct consequence of the increasing quantum coherence time between the different quantum field components in the Bose gas from cooling to below the critical temperature, the present model describes symmetry breaking, which is originally known from the definition of a specific gauge field from Elitzur's theorem for local gauge fields, as a global physical rather than a purely formal mathematical process.