Degenerate Bose gas without anomalous averages

Abstract

Theory of a weakly non-ideal Bose gas in the canonical ensemble is developed without assumption of the C-number representation of the creation and annihilation operators with zero momentum. Instead of this assumption, we use the assumption on the C-number nature of the density operator N0 = a†0a0 with zero momentum. It is shown that the pole of the “density-density” Green function (DDGF), as well as the pole of the single-particle Green function (SPGF), exactly coincide with the Bogoliubov phonon-roton spectrum of excitations for both assumptions. This spectrum, as is known confirmed by many neutron and x-ray experimental measurements of the dynamic structure factor in He II, is straightly related to the DDGF. At the same time, we show that in the other case under consideration, when neither N0 nor a†0 and a0 are C-numbers, a gap can exist in SPGF. This gap in SPGF excitations is straightly related to the density of particles in the “condensate”. Therefore, the spectra of excitations for the DDGF and SPGF in the last case under consideration are different, in contrast to the Bogoliubov-type theory where these spectra are identical.