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Physical review. B, Condensed matter

Dilute Bose gas in two dimensions

Daniel S. Fisher, Pierre C. Hohenberg

Published Apr 1, 1988• 388 citations
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Abstract

The weakly interacting Bose gas in two dimensions is considered in the dilute limit ${n}^{1/2}$a\ensuremath{\ll}1, where n is the particle density and a is the range of the potential. The standard many-body perturbation theory for this system has two separate divergences: the first, associated with classical phase fluctuations, is responsible for the vanishing of the long-range order; the second is quantum mechanical and is connected with the vanishing of the scattering t matrix at long wavelengths and low energies. An earlier diagrammatic theory of Popov, which provides a consistent description of the system in the dilute limit, is rederived heuristically from a quasiparticle picture, and also using the renormalization group. It is shown that the superfluid transition temperature is ${T}_{c}$\ensuremath{\approxeq}4\ensuremath{\pi}(${\ensuremath{\Elzxh}}^{2}$/2m)n/[ln ln(1/${\mathrm{na}}^{2}$)], and the condition of validity of the dilute limit is ln ln(1/${\mathrm{na}}^{2}$)\ensuremath{\gg}1. The connection to the dilute Bose gas in dimensions d>2 and the universal behavior beyond the extreme asymptotic low-density domain are also discussed.

DOI
10.1103/physrevb.37.4936

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The weakly interacting Bose gas in two dimensions is considered in the dilute limit n1/2{n}^{1/2}n1/2a\ensuremath{\ll}1, where n is the particle density and a is the range of the potential. The standard many-body perturbation theory for this system has two separate divergences: the first, associated with classical phase fluctuations, is responsible for the vanishing of the long-range order; the second is quantum mechanical and is connected with the vanishing of the scattering t matrix at long wavelengths and low energies. An earlier diagrammatic theory of Popov, which provides a consistent description of the system in the dilute limit, is rederived heuristically from a quasiparticle picture, and also using the renormalization group. It is shown that the superfluid transition temperature is Tc{T}_{c}Tc​\ensuremath{\approxeq}4\ensuremath{\pi}(\ensuremath\Elzxh2{\ensuremath{\Elzxh}}^{2}\ensuremath\Elzxh2/2m)n/[ln ln(1/na2{\mathrm{na}}^{2}na2)], and the condition of validity of the dilute limit is ln ln(1/na2{\mathrm{na}}^{2}na2)\ensuremath{\gg}1. The connection to the dilute Bose gas in dimensions d>2 and the universal behavior beyond the extreme asymptotic low-density domain are also discussed.
This article reviews recent advances in the theory of the three-dimensional dilute homogeneous Bose gas at zero and finite temperature. Effective-field-theory methods are used to formulate a systematic perturbative framework that can be used to calculate the properties of a system at T=0.T=0.T=0. The perturbative expansion of these properties is essentially an expansion in the gas parameter na3,\sqrt{{\mathrm{na}}^{3}},na3​, where aaa is the sss-wave scattering length and nnn is the number density. In particular, the leading quantum corrections to the ground-state energy density, the condensate depletion, and long-wavelength collective excitations are rederived in an efficient and economical manner. Nonuniversal effects are also discussed. These effects are higher-order corrections that depend on properties of the interatomic potential other than the scattering length, such as the effective range. The article critically examines various approaches to the dilute Bose gas in equilibrium at finite temperature. These include the Bogoliubov approximation, the Popov approximation, the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov approximation, the \ensuremath{\Phi}-derivable approach, optimized perturbation theory, and renormalization-group techniques. The article ends with a look at recent calculations of the critical temperature of the dilute Bose gas, which include 1/N1/N1/N techniques, lattice simulations, self-consistent calculations, and variational perturbation theory.
A dilute homogeneous two-dimensional (2D) Bose gas at zero temperature is studied with the method developed earlier by the authors. This method allows for considering renormalization of an arbitrary pairwise potential in a self-consistent manner, without the pseudopotential delta-function representation. Low-density expansions are derived for the chemical potential, ground-state energy, pair distribution function, kinetic and interaction energies. The expansion parameter is found to be a dimensionless in-medium scattering amplitude u obeying the equation 1/u+ln u=-ln(na(2)pi)-2gamma, where na(2) and gamma are the gas parameter and the Euler constant, respectively. It is shown that the ground-state energy is mostly kinetic in the low-density limit. This result does not depend on a specific form of the pairwise interaction potential, contrary to the 3D case. A new form of the 2D Gross-Pitaevskii equation is proposed within our scheme.
The behavior of a dilute Bose superfluid at low temperatures, $T<<{T}_{\ensuremath{\lambda}}$, is considered with emphasis on the superfluid density, ${\ensuremath{\rho}}_{s}(T)$. Many of the predictions of the Bogoliubov model are exact in this regime and are shown to lead to a scaling description of the crossover from ideal to interacting Bose gas behavior as the density is reduced. Combined with previous work on scaling near criticality, $T\ensuremath{\simeq}{T}_{\ensuremath{\lambda}}$, these results complete the crossover description of the dilute superfluid over the full temperature range. Diagrammatic perturbation theory in the superfluid phase is outlined and previous results from the helium literature are summarized. The various divergences encountered have previously been shown to arise from nonanalyticities in the self-energy functions at zero momentum, and these are related to the spin-wave nature of the superfluid phase. A full renormalization-group fixed-point picture is presented summarizing the zero-temperature and finite-temperature regimes and the flows connecting them.
This colloquium surveys a number of theoretical problems and open questions in the field of two-dimensional dilute Bose gases with weak repulsive interactions. In contrast to three dimensions, in two dimensions the formation of long-range order is prohibited by the Bogoliubov-Hohenberg theorem, and Bose-Einstein condensation is not expected to occur. Nevertheless, experimental indications supporting the formation of a condensate in low-dimensional systems have recently been obtained. This unexpected behavior appears to be due to the nonuniformity introduced into a system by the external trapping potential. Theoretical predictions, made for homogeneous systems, require therefore careful reexamination. A number of popular theoretical treatments of the dilute weakly interacting Bose gas are presented and their regions of applicability are discussed. The possibility of Bose-Einstein condensation in a two-dimensional gas, the validity of the perturbative ttt-matrix approximation, and the diluteness condition are issues also discussed in detail.
We study the interacting homogeneous Bose gas in two spatial dimensions in the thermodynamic limit at fixed density. We shall be concerned with some mathematical aspects of this complicated problem in many-body quantum mechanics. More specifically, we consider the dilute limit where the scattering length of the interaction potential, which is a measure for the effective range of the potential, is small compared to the average distance between the particles. We are interested in a setting with positive (i.e., non-zero) temperature. After giving a survey of the relevant literature in the field, we provide some facts and examples to set expectations for the two-dimensional system. The crucial difference to the three-dimensional system is that there is no Bose–Einstein condensate at positive temperature due to the Hohenberg–Mermin–Wagner theorem. However, it turns out that an asymptotic formula for the free energy holds similarly to the three-dimensional case. We motivate this formula by considering a toy model with δ interaction potential. By restricting this model Hamiltonian to certain trial states with a quasi-condensate we obtain an upper bound for the free energy that still has the quasi-condensate fraction as a free parameter. When minimizing over the quasi-condensate fraction, we obtain the Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless critical temperature for superfluidity, which plays an important role in our rigorous contribution. The mathematically rigorous result that we prove concerns the specific free energy in the dilute limit. We give upper and lower bounds on the free energy in terms of the free energy of the non-interacting system and a correction term coming from the interaction. Both bounds match and thus we obtain the leading term of an asymptotic approximation in the dilute limit, provided the thermal wavelength of the particles is of the same order (or larger) than the average distance between the particles. The remarkable feature of this result is its generality: the correction term depends on the interaction potential only through its scattering length and it holds for all nonnegative interaction potentials with finite scattering length that are measurable. In particular, this allows to model an interaction of hard disks.
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