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arXiv:math-ph/0604068

Bose-Einstein Condensation in the Luttinger-Sy Model

Lenoble, Olivier, Valentin Anatol'evich Zagrebnov

Published Apr 27, 2006• 15 citations
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Abstract

We present a rigorous study of the Bose-Einstein condensation in the Luttinger-Sy model. We prove the existence of the condensation in this one-dimensional model of the perfect boson gas placed in the Poisson random potential of singular point impurities. To tackle the off-diagonal long-range order we calculate explicitly the corresponding space-averaged one-body reduced density matrix. We show that mathematical mechanism of the Bose-Einstein condensation in this random model is similar to condensation in a one-dimensional nonrandom hierarchical model of scaled intervals. For the Luttinger-Sy model we prove the Kac-Luttinger conjecture, i.e., that this model manifests a type I BEC localized in a single "largest" interval of logarithmic size.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.math-ph/0604068

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We present a rigorous study of the perfect Bose-gas in the presence of a homogeneous ergodic random potential. It is demonstrated that the Lifshitz tail behaviour of the one-particle spectrum reduces the critical dimensionality of the (generalized) Bose–Einstein Condensation (BEC) to d = 1. To tackle the Off-Diagonal Long-Range Order (ODLRO) we introduce the space average one-body reduced density matrix. For a one-dimensional Poisson-type random potential we prove that randomness enhances the exponential decay of this matrix in domain free of the BEC. To cite this article: O. Lenoble et al., C. R. Physique 5 (2004).
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A perfect Bose gas can condensate in one dimension in the presence of a random potential due to the presence of Lifshitz tails in the one-particle density of states. Here, we show that scale-free correlations in the random potential suppress the disorder induced Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC). Within a tight-binding approach, we consider free Bosons moving in a scale-free correlated random potential with spectral density decaying as $1/{k}^{\ensuremath{\alpha}}$. The critical temperature for BEC is shown to vanish in chains with a binary nonstationary potential $(\ensuremath{\alpha}>1)$. On the other hand, a weaker suppression of BEC takes place in nonbinarized scale-free potentials. After a slightly increase in the stationary regime, the BEC transition temperature continuously decays as the spectral exponent $\ensuremath{\alpha}\ensuremath{\rightarrow}\ensuremath{\infty}$.