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Progress of Theoretical Physics

A Quantum Theory of Boson Assemblies, II: A Classical Approach to Many-Boson Problems

Toshiyuki Nishiyama

Published Mar 1, 1953• 4 citations
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Abstract

Some collective behaviors of boson assemblies are described in terms of the classical density operator and the classical velocity operator. We introduce these two classical quantities by taking average of the quantized operators with respect to Heisenberg wave packets. Equations of these two quantities are determined and we obtain the transport equations. Thus the assembly is described as a fluid having the quantum mechanical pressure tensor. The collective behavior of the assembly in question is analysed applying the theory of sound waves. Such an approximate treatment enables us to regard the assembly in question as the assembly of oscillation quanta. When a particle is projected into the assembly with the velocity v0 which is larger than the sound speed of the medium, suffering the collective response of the remainder of the bosons, the particle is decelerated and emits sound quanta. These processes are analysed by a classical treatment. Further we consider the interaction of every particle in the assembly with the field of the collective oscillation representing behaviors of the remainder of the assembly. The self-energy of the particle and the Møller interaction between particles are obtained according to the interaction representation of Tomonaga and Schwinger as well as the canonical transformation of Bloch and Nordsieck.

DOI
10.1143/ptp/9.3.245

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The fact implied by Bloch several years ago that in some approximate sense the behavior of an assembly of Fermi particles can be described by a quantized field of sound waves in the Fermi gas, where the sound field obeys Bose statistics, is proved in the one-dimensional case. This fact provides us with a new possibility of treating an assembly of Fermi particles in terms of the equivalent assembly of Bose particles, namely, the assembly of sound quanta. The field equation for the sound wave is found to be linear irrespective of the absence or presence of mutual interaction between particles, so that this method is a very useful means of dealing with many-Fermion problems. It is also applicable to the case where the interparticle force is not weak. In the case of force of too short a range this method fails.
The fact implied by Bloch several years ago that in some approximate sense the behavior of an assembly of Fermi particles can be described by a quantized field of sound waves in the Fermi gas, where the sound field obeys Bose statistics, is proved in the one-dimensional case. This fact provides us with a new possibility of treating an assembly of Fermi particles in terms of the equivalent assembly of Bose particles, namely, the assembly of sound quanta. The field equation for the sound wave is found to be linear irrespective of the absence or presence of mutual interaction between particles, so that this method is a very useful means of dealing with many-Fermion problems. It is also applicable to the case where the interparticle force is not weak. In the case of force of too short a range this method fails.
We present a method of treating the assembly of interacting bosons under Bose-Einstein condensation. Without applying the Bogoliubov approximation in which the creation and the annihilation operators of zero-momentum particles are replaced by a c number, we keep the quantum nature of these operators—thus the title, ``Quantum Mechanics.'' The method is a quantum mechanical adaptation of the theory of small oscillation. The oscillation means the fluctuation of the number of condensed particles. The interaction between particles determines the stability of this oscillation. When it is stable and its amplitude is not macroscopic, the Bogoliubov approximation is valid. In this way, our method provides a validity criterion for the Bogoliubov approximation as well as an estimation of the errors thereby committed. We have to note that the excitations associated with the fluctuation of condensed particles can never be obtained within that approximation. Our method is applied to the Huang model, the assembly of bosons interacting through a hard core plus weak attractive potential. Having found that, within the physically accessible range of the particle density, the above-mentioned oscillation is stable, we can conclude that Huang's treatment is well founded. We have discussed the mathematical background of our approximation by invoking the representation theory of canonical variables of an infinitely large system.
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Macro-orbital representation of a particle (detailed account given in cond-mat/0603784) has been used to develop the microscopic theory of a system of interacting bosons. It concludes that: (i) below certain temperature (say, TλT_λTλ​), particles assume a state of (q, -q) bound pairs, (ii) the λ−λ-λ−transition is a consequence of inter-particle quantum correlations clubbed with zero-point repulsion and inter-particle attraction and represents an onset of the order-disorder of particles in their ϕ−ϕ-ϕ−space followed simultaneously by their BEC as (q, -q) bound pairs in a state of q = qo=π/dq_o = π/dqo​=π/d and K = 0, (iii) particles at T≤TλT \le T_λT≤Tλ​ acquire collective binding which locks them at = 0, = λ/2λ/2λ/2 and Δϕ=2nπΔϕ= 2nπΔϕ=2nπ (with n = 1, 2, 3, ...), (iv) the entire system assumes mechanical strain in inter-particle bonds and behaves like a single macroscopic molecule, (v) there exists an energy gap between the superfluid and normal fluid phases of the system, (vi) the λ−λ-λ−transition represents the twin phenomena of broken gauge symmetry and phase coherence, (vii) the system does not have p = 0 condensate, (viii) a new kind of quantum quasi-particle "omon" (a phononlike wave of the oscillations of the momentum coordinates of particles) exists in superfluid phase, etc. It explains the properties of He-II, including the origin of quantized vortices, critical velocities, logarithmic singularity of specific heat, etc. at quantitative level and provides microscopic foundation to two fluid theory, Ψ−Ψ-Ψ−theory, idea of macroscopic wave function, etc. The framework of the theory can unify the physics of interacting bosons and fermions.