Mean-field Bose Gas Research Articles

Spin-orbit-coupled mean-field Bose gas at finite temperature

Spin-orbit-coupled mean-field Bose gas at finite temperature

Weak Edgeworth expansion for the mean-field Bose gas

We consider the ground state and the low-energy excited states of a system of N identical bosons with interactions in the mean-field scaling regime. For the ground state, we derive a weak Edgeworth expansion for the fluctuations of bounded one-body operators, which yields corrections to a central limit theorem to any order in 1/sqrt{N}. For suitable excited states, we show that the limiting distribution is a polynomial times a normal distribution, and that higher-order corrections are given by an Edgeworth-type expansion.

Two-term expansion of the ground state one-body density matrix of a mean-field Bose gas

We consider the homogeneous Bose gas on a unit torus in the mean-field regime when the interaction strength is proportional to the inverse of the particle number. In the limit when the number of particles becomes large, we derive a two-term expansion of the one-body density matrix of the ground state. The proof is based on a cubic correction to Bogoliubov’s approximation of the ground state energy and the ground state.

The Bulk Correlation Length and the Range of Thermodynamic Casimir Forces at Bose-Einstein Condensation

The relation between the bulk correlation length and the decay length of thermodynamic Casimir forces is investigated microscopically in two three-dimensional systems undergoing Bose-Einstein condensation: the perfect Bose gas and the imperfect mean-field Bose gas. For each of these systems, both lengths diverge upon approaching the corresponding condensation point from the one-phase side, and are proportional to each other. We determine the proportionality factors and discuss their dependence on the boundary conditions. The values of the corresponding critical exponents for the decay length and the correlation length are the same, equal to 1/2 for the perfect gas, and 1 for the imperfect gas.

On the nature of Bose–Einstein condensation enhanced by localization

In a previous paper we established that for the perfect Bose gas and the mean-field Bose gas with an external random or weak potential, whenever there is generalized Bose–Einstein condensation in the eigenstates of the single particle Hamiltonian, there is also generalized condensation in the kinetic-energy states. In these cases Bose–Einstein condensation is produced or enhanced by the external potential. In the present paper we establish a criterion for the absence of condensation in single kinetic-energy states and prove that this criterion is satisfied for a class of random potentials and weak potentials. This means that the condensate is spread over an infinite number of states with low kinetic-energy without any of them being macroscopically occupied.

Limit theorems for statistics of combinatorial partitions with applications to mean field Bose gas

In this paper we study the statistics of combinatorial partitions of the integers, which arise when studying the occupation numbers of loops in the mean field Bose gas. We review the results of Lewis and collaborators and get some more precise estimates on the behavior at the critical point (fluctuations of the condensate component, finite volume corrections to the pressure). We then prove limit shape theorems for the loops occupation numbers. In particular we prove that in a certain range of the parameters, a finite fraction of the total mass is, in the limit, supported by infinitely long loops. We also show that this mass is equal to the mass of the condensed state where all particles have zero momentum.

Bose-Einstein condensation and symmetry breaking

Adding a gauge symmetry breaking field -\nu\sqrt{V}(a_0+a_0^*) to the Hamiltonian of some simplified models of an interacting Bose gas we compute the condensate density and the symmetry breaking order parameter in the limit of infinite volume and prove Bogoliubov's asymptotic hypothesis \lim_{V\to\infty}< a_0>/\sqrt{V}={\rm sgn}\nu \lim_{V\to\infty}\sqrt{< a_0^*a_0>/V} where the averages are taken in the ground state or in thermal equilibrium states. Letting \nu tend to zero in this equation we obtain that Bose-Einstein condensation occurs if and only if the gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken. The simplification consists in dropping the off-diagonal terms in the momentum representation of the pair interaction. The models include the mean field and the imperfect (Huang-Yang-Luttinger) Bose gas. An implication of the result is that the compressibility sum rule cannot hold true in the ground state of the one-dimensional mean-field Bose gas. Our method is based on a resolution of the Hamiltonian into a family of single-mode (k=0) Hamiltonians and on the analysis of the associated microcanonical ensembles.

Proof of Bose–Einstein condensation for interacting gases with a one-particle spectral gap

Using a specially tuned mean-field Bose gas as a reference system, we establish a positive lower bound on the condensate density for continuous Bose systems with superstable two-body interactions and a finite gap in the one-particle excitations spectrum, i.e. we prove for the first time standard homogeneous Bose–Einstein condensation for such interacting systems.