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arXiv:cond-mat/0509693 · Physical Review A

Superfluidity without symmetry breaking: The time-dependent Hartree-Fock approximation for Bose-condensed condensates

C.-H. Zhang, H. A. Fertig

Published Aug 21, 2006• 18 citations
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Abstract

We develop a time-dependent Hartree-Fock approximation that is appropriate for Bose-condensed systems. Defining a depletion Green's function allows the construction of condensate and depletion particle densities from eigenstates of a single time-dependent (oscillating) Hamiltonian, guaranteeing that our approach is a number-conserving approximation. The poles of this Green's function yield the energies of number-changing excitations for which the condensate particle number is held fixed, which we show has a gapped spectrum in the superfluid state. The linearized time-dependent version of this has poles at the collective frequencies of the system, yielding the expected zero sound mode for a uniform infinite system. We show how the approximations may be expressed in a general linear response formalism.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.74.023613

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We develop a time-dependent Hartree-Fock approximation that is appropriate for Bose-condensed systems. Defining a depletion Green's function allows the construction of condensate and depletion particle densities from eigenstates of a single time-dependent (oscillating) Hamiltonian, guaranteeing that our approach is a number-conserving approximation. The poles of this Green's function yield the energies of number-changing excitations for which the condensate particle number is held fixed, which we show has a gapped spectrum in the superfluid state. The linearized time-dependent version of this has poles at the collective frequencies of the system, yielding the expected zero sound mode for a uniform infinite system. We show how the approximations may be expressed in a general linear response formalism.
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