Linear Response Function
Лев П. Питаевский, S. Stringari
Abstract
Abstract This chapter develops the formalism of linear response function, dynamic structure factor, dynamic polarizability, and sum rules. The behaviour of the density response function in a superfluid is discussed and analytic results at finite temperatures are shown in the case of the ideal and weakly interacting Bose gases. Sum rules are used to derive general inequalities holding at both zero and finite temperatures. The Hohenberg–Mermin–Wagner theorem and its generalization to zero temperature, based on the use of the uncertainty inequality, are explicitly discussed in the case of Bose systems.