Communications in Theoretical Physics
Collective Excitations in Spin-2 Bose–Einstein Condensates
Jing-Min Hou, Li-Jun Tian
Abstract
The Green's functions and the correlation functions in spin-2 Bose–Einstein condensates at finite temperature are defined and the generalized Dyson–Beliaev equations are introduced. We discuss the spin conservation in z direction and decouple the Green's functions and the generalized Dyson–Beliaev equations according to different spin conservations in z direction. The anomalous vertex functions are introduced and the self-energies are separated into the proper self-energies and the improper self-energies. The generalized Dyson–Beliaev equations are decoupled according to separation of the self-energies. We calculate the Green's functions step by step in the Bogoliubov approximation and discuss the collective excitations in spin-2 Bose–Einstein condensates in the polar, ferromagnetic, and cyclic cases, respectively.