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Journal de Physique I

Ursell Operators in Statistical Physics II: Microscopic Properties of a Dilute Quantum Gas

P. Grüter, Franck Laloë

Published Oct 1, 1995• 4 citations
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Abstract

We apply the formalism of Ursell operators, introduced in a previous article, to the calculation of reduced density operators (one and two-body density operators) in a dilute quantum gas; the calculation is not a fugacity expansion and is therefore not limited to low degrees of degeneracy. We obtain quantum corrections for the one-particle density operator as a function of the second Ursell operator. For the two-body density operator, we examine how statistics and interactions combine their effects on the correlations between particles; in particular we discuss in detail how hard cores potentials affect the short range correlations, a non-perturbative effect.

DOI
10.1051/jp1:1995196

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The Beth Uhlenbeck formula gives an exact (quantum) expression of the second virial correction to the equation of state of a (slightly degenerate) dilute gas. We show how this result can be extended to arbitrary degeneracy provided that the interaction potential has a sufficiently short range. For this purpose we develop a formalism based on the use of Ursell operators, which contain no symmetrization in themselves (they correspond to an auxiliary system of distinguishable particles) and we show how they can be used for a system of identical particles. A concise expression generalizing the Beth Uhlenbeck formula is obtained, which is equally valid for bosons and fermions Higher order corrections are also introduced. The formalism is rather general and will be applied to other cases in forthcoming articles.
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We study in more detail the properties of the generalized Beth Uhlenbeck formula obtained in a preceding article. This formula leads to a simple integral expression of the grand potential of the system, where the interaction potential appears only through the matrix elements of the second order Ursell operator U2U_{2}U2​. Our results remain valid for significant degree of degeneracy of the gas, but not when Bose Einstein (or BCS) condensation is reached, or even too close from this transition point. We apply them to the study of the thermodynamic properties of degenerate quantum gases: equation of state, magnetic susceptibility, effects of exchange between bound states and free particles, etc. We compare our predictions to those obtained within other approaches, especially the ``pseudo potential'' approximation, where the real potential is replaced by a potential with zero range (Dirac delta function). This comparison is conveniently made in terms of a temperature dependent quantity, the ``Ursell length'', which we define in the text. This length plays a role which is analogous to the scattering length for pseudopotentials, but it is temperature dependent and may include more physical effects than just binary collision effects; for instance at very low temperatures it may change sign or increase almost exponentially, an effect which is reminiscent of a precursor of the BCS pairing transition. As an illustration, numerical results for quantum hard spheres are given.
The thermodynamics of a homogeneous dilute Bose gas with an arbitrarily strong repulsion between particles is investigated on the basis of the exact relation connecting the pair correlation function with the in-medium pair wave functions and occupation numbers. It is shown that the effective-interaction scheme, which is reduced to the Bogoliubov model with the effective pairwise potential, is not acceptable for investigating the short-range particle correlations in a dilute strongly interacting Bose gas. In contrast to this scheme, our model is thermodynamically consistent and free of the ultraviolet divergences due to accurate treatment of the short-range boson correlations. An equation for the in-medium scattering amplitude is derived that makes it possible to find the in-medium renormalization for the pair wave functions at short boson separations. Low-density expansions for the main thermodynamic quantities are reinvestigated on the basis of this equation. In addition, the expansions are found for the interaction and kinetic energies per particle. It is demonstrated that for a many-boson system of hard spheres the interaction energy is equal to zero for any boson density. The exact relationship between the chemical potential and in-medium pair wave functions is also established.
The low-density expansions for the energy, chemical potential, and condensate depletion of the homogeneous dilute dipolar Bose gas are obtained by regularizing the dipole-dipole interaction at long distances. It is shown that the leading term, proportional to the density, allows a simple physical interpretation and consistently describes the thermodynamic stability of the system. The long-range asymptotics are obtained analytically for the normal and anomalous one-particle correlation functions and the pair distribution function. We discuss the properties of the two-body scattering with zero relative momentum for the dipole-dipole interaction; in particular, we derive the asymptotics of the wave function and a correction to the scattering length for small values of the dipolar range. We show how the density expansions can be derived within the Bogoliubov model of weakly interacting particles without any divergence from the assumption of universality of the expansions at low densities.