Abstract
Using the Kadanoff-Baym nonequilibrium Green's-function formalism, we derive the self-consistent Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (HFB) collisionless kinetic equations and the associated equation of motion for the condensate wave function for a trapped Bose-condensed gas. Our work generalizes earlier work by Kane and Kadanoff for a uniform Bose gas. We include the off-diagonal (anomalous) pair correlations, and thus we have to introduce an off-diagonal distribution function in addition to the normal (diagonal) distribution function. This results in two coupled kinetic equations. If the off-diagonal distribution function can be neglected as a higher-order contribution, we obtain the semiclassical kinetic equation recently used by Zaremba, Griffin, and Nikuni (based on the simpler Popov approximation). We discuss the static local equilibrium solution of our coupled HFB kinetic equations within the semiclassical approximation. We also verify that a solution is the rigid in-phase oscillation of the equilibrium condensate and noncondensate density profiles, oscillating with the trap frequency.
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