From the many-body
T matrix, the condition for a medium-dependent bound state and its binding energy is derived for a homogeneous interacting Bose gas. This condition provides the critical line in the phase diagram in terms of the medium-dependent scattering length. Separating the Bose pole from the distribution function, the influence of a Bose condensate is discussed and a thermal minimum of the critical scattering length is found.
The pole of the two-particle T-matrix including the influence of the surrounding medium is analyzed for an interacting Bose gas. The phase diagram of the Bose -Einstein condensation (BEC) depending on the temperature, density, scattering length, and momentum is derived from this pole. The critical momentum for the occurrence of superfluidity is obtained in this way. As a new observation a two- particle binding energy is reported intimately connected with the occurrence of the BEC. It is suggested that this might have cosmological consequences on the dark energy problem.
We use the nonperturbative linear $\ensuremath{\delta}$ expansion method to evaluate analytically the coefficients
c1 and ${c}_{2}^{\ensuremath{''}}$ that appear in the expansion for the transition temperature for a dilute, homogeneous, three-dimensional Bose gas given by ${T}_{c}{=T}_{0}({1+c}_{1}{\mathrm{an}}^{1/3}+[{c}_{2}^{\ensuremath{'}}\mathrm{ln}{(an}^{1/3}{)+c}_{2}^{\ensuremath{''}}]{a}^{2}{n}^{2/3}{+O(a}^{3}n)),$ where
T0 is the result for an ideal gas, a is the s-wave scattering length, and n is the number density. In a previous work the same method has been used to evaluate
c1 to order ${\ensuremath{\delta}}^{2}$ with the result
c1=3.06. Here, we push the calculation to the next two orders obtaining
c1=2.45 at order ${\ensuremath{\delta}}^{3}$ and
c1=1.48 at order ${\ensuremath{\delta}}^{4}.$ Analyzing the topology of the graphs involved we discuss how our results relate to other nonperturbative analytical methods such as the self-consistent resummation and the
1/N approximations. At the same orders we obtain ${c}_{2}^{\ensuremath{''}}=101.4,$ ${c}_{2}^{\ensuremath{''}}=98.2,$ and ${c}_{2}^{\ensuremath{''}}=82.9.$ Our analytical results seem to support the recent Monte Carlo estimates ${c}_{1}=1.32\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.02$ and ${c}_{2}^{\ensuremath{''}}=75.7\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.4.$
Using a finite-temperature path integral Monte Carlo simulation (PIMC) method and finite-size scaling, we have investigated the interaction-induced shift of the phase-transition temperature for Bose-Einstein condensation of homogeneous weakly interacting Bose gases in three dimensions, which is given by a proposed analytical expression ${T}_{c}={T}_{c}^{0}{1+{c}_{1}a{n}^{1∕3}+[{c}_{2}^{\ensuremath{'}}\phantom{\rule{0.2em}{0ex}}\mathrm{ln}(a{n}^{1∕3})+{c}_{2}^{\ensuremath{''}}]{a}^{2}{n}^{2∕3}+\mathrm{O}({a}^{3}n)}$, where
Tc0 is the critical temperature for an ideal gas,
a is the
s-wave scattering length, and
n is the number density. We have used smaller number densities and more time slices than in the previous PIMC simulations [Gruter et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 3549 (1997)] in order to understand the difference in the value of the coefficient
c1 between their results and the (apparently) other reliable results in the literature. Our results show that ${({T}_{c}\ensuremath{-}{T}_{c}^{0})∕{T}_{c}^{0}}∕(a{n}^{1∕3})$ depends strongly on the interaction strength
an1∕3 while the previous PIMC results are considerably flatter and smaller than our results. We obtain ${c}_{1}=1.32\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.14$, in agreement with results from recent Monte Carlo methods of three-dimensional O(2) scalar ${\ensuremath{\phi}}^{4}$ field theory and variational perturbation theory.
We investigate Bose-Einstein condensation for interacting bosons at zero and nonzero temperature. Functional renormalization provides us with a consistent method to compute the effect of fluctuations beyond the Bogoliubov approximation. For three-dimensional dilute gases, we find an upper bound on the scattering length
a which is of the order of the microphysical scale---typically the range of the van der Waals interaction. In contrast to fermions near the unitary bound, no strong interactions occur for bosons with approximately pointlike interactions, thus explaining the high quantitative reliability of perturbation theory for most quantities. For zero temperature we compute the quantum phase diagram for bosonic quasiparticles with a general dispersion relation, corresponding to an inverse microphysical propagator with terms linear and quadratic in the frequency. We compute the temperature dependence of the condensate and particle density
n, and find for the critical temperature
Tc a deviation from the free theory, $\ensuremath{\Delta}{T}_{c}/{T}_{c}=2.1a{n}^{1/3}$. For the sound velocity at zero temperature we find very good agreement with the Bogoliubov result, such that it may be used to determine the particle density accurately.
We discuss certain specific features of the calculation of the critical temperature of a dilute repulsive Bose gas. Interactions modify the critical temperature in two different ways. First, for gases in traps, temperature shifts are introduced by a change of the density profile, arising itself from a modification of the equation of state of the gas (reduced compressibility); these shifts can be calculated simply within mean field theory. Second, even in the absence of a trapping potential (homogeneous gas in a box), temperature shifts are introduced by the interactions; they arise from the correlations introduced in the gas, and thus lie inherently beyond mean field theory – in fact, their evaluation requires more elaborate, non-perturbative, calculations. One illustration of this non-perturbative character is provided by the solution of self-consistent equations, which relate together non-linearly the various energy shifts of the single particle levels k . These equations predict that repulsive interactions shift the critical temperature (at constant density) by an amount which is positive, and simply proportional to the scattering length a ; nevertheless, the numerical coefficient is difficult to compute. Physically, the increase of the temperature can be interpreted in terms of the reduced density fluctuations introduced by the repulsive interactions, which facilitate the propagation of large exchange cycles across the sample.