Here, it was shown that the chain of equations, which is similar to the Bogoliubov chain in the theory of classical gases, may be obtained for the quasi-averages of the products of field operators in the system of Bose particles. The closed system of dynamic equations, which accounts for both the one-particle condensate and pair correlations, was obtained at zero temperature for the case where it is sufficient to confine ourselves to taking into account the quasi-averages of one field operator and the products of two field operators. The spectrum of excitations in a spatially homogeneous state was studied, and it was shown that this spectrum has two branches: the sound branch and the branch with an energy gap at zero momentum. The possibility of the existence of quasiparticle excitations with an energy gap in superfluid helium was discussed in connection with experiments on the absorption of microwave radiation.
The central problem of this chapter is temporal coherence of a three-dimensional spatially homogeneous Bose-condensed gas, initially prepared at finite temperature and then evolving as an isolated interacting system. A first theoretical tool is a number-conserving Bogoliubov approach that allows to describe the system as a weakly interacting gas of quasi-particles. This approach naturally introduces the phase operator of the condensate: a central actor since loss of temporal coherence is governed by the spreading of the condensate phase-change. A second tool is the set of kinetic equations describing the Beliaev-Landau processes for the quasi-particles. We find that in general the variance of the condensate phase-change at long times
t is the sum of a ballistic term
∝t2 and a diffusive term
∝t with temperature and interaction dependent coefficients. In the thermodynamic limit, the diffusion coefficient scales as the inverse of the system volume. The coefficient of
t2 scales as the inverse volume squared times the variance of the energy of the system in the initial state and can also be obtained by a quantum ergodic theory (the so-called eigenstate thermalisation hypothesis).