Condensed Matter Physics
Excitation spectrum and electrical properties of the condensate of Bose atoms
Kosevich
Abstract
It is shown that the condensate of a degenerated Bose gas consisting of neutral atoms possesses electrical properties which differ from a trivial polarization of the atoms in the electric field.A notion of an isotropic quadrupole moment (IQM) of a neutral atom is introduced.A distribution of IQM reflects a specific spatial ordering in the condensate and produces a distribution of the electric potential.Small vibrations of the Bose gas are considered and a correction to the Bogoliubov spectrum of elementary excitations in the degenerated Bose gas is obtained.An additional term in the Gross-Pitaevskii equation which is responsible for such a correction is found and a new type of the nonlinear Schr ödinger equation (NSE) is constructed.Since the Bose condensate is akin to the superfluid component in He II, a manifestation of its electrical activity could have a relation to the electrical activity of the superfluid liquid observed experimentally.