Physical Review A
Sum rule for the dynamical response of a confined Bose-Einstein condensed gas
Anna Minguzzi
Abstract
We extend a sum rule, resulting from the covariance properties of the Schroedinger equation under transformation in an accelerated frame and originally derived for an inhomogeneous electron system, to the linear-density response functions of a confined Bose-condensed gas at finite temperature. We apply the sum rule to test some approximate theories and to show that in the case of a harmonic confinement the random-phase approximation includes the Kohn modes in its spectrum.