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Progress of Theoretical Physics

A Microscopic Theory of Superfluids. II: Quasi-Particles and Their Interaction

Shuichiro Yamasaki

Published Mar 1, 1985• 2 citations
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Abstract

A finite temperature system of degenerate bosons is studied with the aid of the extended Bogoliubov transformation which has been proposed in a preceding part I. The energies of quasi-particles and the vertex functions describing their interaction are determined in an approximation which includes the lowest order effects of the interaction between non-zero momentum bosons. The quasi-particle energy depends on the distribution of thermal excitations, and is of phonon type in the long wavelength limit. The phonon nature of the spectrum is preserved by the interaction between quasi-particles, because the vertex functions vanish in the long wavelength limit. In the limit as the condensate is depleted completely, the proposed formalism simplifies to the Hartree-Fock theory.

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10.1143/ptp.73.598

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The low-temperature properties of the interacting Bose system at high density are investigated under the random phase approximation and the self-consistent Hartree approximation based on the “normal-mode analysis”. To treat rigorously the tempereture-dependent “depletion” effect of the particles in the zero-momentum level, a new approach is proposed. As a result, the critical temperature, Tc, at which the zero-momentum particles disappear is determined. In the region below Tc, the temperature-dependent energy-spectrum of the quasi-particles, which has at the zero-temperature an intimate connection with that of Bogoliubov, is obtained, and the property of superfluidity which disappears at Tc is discussed. It is shown that the quasi-particles are transformed into the normal Bose particles at Tc, and the temperature-dependent energy-spectrum of the normal particles in the region above Tc is determined. It is noteworthy that the phase transition of the second-order occurs at Tc. In so far as the interaction gives the real and positive value for the energy-spectrum of both the quasi-particles and normal particles, the results above hold true, independent of the magnitude and particular shape of interaction.Some remarks are made on the hard-sphere interaction and on the interaction among the quasi-particles which seems necessary for the investigateions of the intermediate-density Bose system.
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