Derivation of the Time-Dependent Gross–Pitaevskii Equation for Composite Bosons in the BEC Limit of the BCS–BEC Crossover
Giancarlo Calvanese Strinati
This chapter derives from first principles the time-dependent Gross–Pitaevskii equation, which describes the time-dependent behavior of the condensate wave function associated with the composite bosons that form on the BEC side of the BCS–BEC crossover at sufficiently low temperature. The derivation relies on the Green’s functions method for nonequilibrium problems developed before and explores the assumption that the fermionic chemical potential, associated with the initial preparation of the system at thermodynamic equilibrium, is the largest energy scale in the problem. The relation between the scattering length for composite bosons and the scattering length for the constituent fermions is also discussed.
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