Physica Scripta

Quasiparticle Spectrum for a Dilute Bose-gas in an Inhomogeneous External Field

Alexander V. Zhukov

Published Jan 1, 2002• 1 citation

Abstract

The paper deals with the properties of Bose-gases in inhomogeneous external fields at very low temperatures, when a Bose–Einstein condensation occurs. This particularly refers to trapped alkali gases, which are of great experimental and theoretical interest. The system is considered here in the frame of the developed approach close to the Bogoliubov one with necessary modifications. In particular the generalization of Bogoliubov transformations made it possible to find the spectrum of quasiparticles (low-energy thermal excitations) with account of purely quantum parts of ψ-operators in first order.

DOI: 10.1238/physica.regular.065a00129

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-norm. In particular, we show that this approximate wave function is described in terms of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a one-particle state following the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation together with pair excitations with respect to this condensate. As a corollary, we establish a central limit theorem for bounded one-particle observables. The second result is a simple proof of Bose-Einstein condensation for interacting, ultra-dilute gases. More specifically, we consider scalings interpolating between the Gross-Pitaevskii regime and the thermodynamic limit. While condensation had been shown to hold in these regimes before, the advantage of the method used here is its simplicity. Lastly, the third result establishes an upper bound on the ground state energy of a dilute Bose gas in the thermodynamic limit. It captures rigorously the third order correction to the energy per unit volume for suﬃciently low densities as predicted in the physics literature first by Wu and subsequently others.

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