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Ideal Bose Gas

A Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) is a defined as the occurrence of the macroscopic occupation of one-particle states. When a dilute gas of bosons cooled to temperatures very close to 0K (usually ~100nK in experiments), a large fraction of bosons occupies the lowest quantum state, at which point macroscopic quantum phenomena become apparent.

In this section, we summarize some basic and useful thermodynamic results and properties for Bose-Einstein condensations. F

Phase Space Density

The fundamental difference between a BEC and a classical gas is the occupancy of a single-particle state. In a classical gas, the mean occupation number for a single quantum state satisfies the Boltzmann distribution Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \langle n_{\nu} \rangle = e^{-(\epsilon_{\nu}-\mu)/kT} } which is much less than unity. This feature is qualitatively captured by the Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \textit{Phase-space Density} } defined as (3D, homogeneous gas)

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where Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \lambda_T = (2\pi\hbar^2/mkT)^{1/2}} is the thermal de Broglie wavelength.

Some typical parameters for

• Classical thermal gas
  • Atom density $n\sim 10^{25}{\text{m}}^{-3}$
  • Interatomic distance Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle (1/n)^{1/3} \sim 3 \text{nm} }
  • Thermal de Broglie wavelength Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \lambda_T \sim 10^{-2} \text{nm}（T = 300K) }
  • Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \rho_D \sim 10^{-8} }
• BEC in dilute gas
  • Atom density Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle n \sim 10^{20} \text{m}^{-3}}
  • Interatomic distance Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle (1/n)^{1/3} \sim 10^{2} \text{nm} }
  • Thermal de Broglie wavelength Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \lambda_T \sim 10^{3} \text{nm}（T = 100nK) }
  • Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \rho_D \sim 10^{2} }

The Bose-Einstein Distribution

For non-interacting bosons in thermodynamic equilibrium, the mean occupation number of the single-particle state Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \nu } is

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Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle z = exp(\beta \mu)} is defined as fugacity. At high temperature, the chemical potential lies below Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \epsilon_{min} } . As temperature is lower, the chemical potential rises until it reaches Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \epsilon_{min} } and the mean occupation numbers increase.

Thermodynamics in Semi-classical Limits

We focused on the semi-classical case where $kT\gg \delta E$. Here Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \delta E} is the scale for enery level spacing in the trapping potential (for example, Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \delta E = \hbar \omega} for 3D harmonic trapping. This is usually valid in a real experiment where Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle kT \approx 2000 Hz} and $\delta E\approx 100Hz$. In this case, the system can be treated as a continuous excited energy spectrum plus a separated ground state. It seems to be contradictory to the nature of BEC when most of the population is found in the single ground state, but this description is a good enough approximation in many situations. The fully quantum description is necessary for some cases as we will see in the Pedagogical Example in end.

Transition Temperature

When Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \nu = \epsilon_{min} } , the occupation number on the ground state can be arbitrarily large, indicating the emergence of a condensate. The corresponding temperature is the transition temperature Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle T_c } . $T_{c}$ can be calculated with the criteria that the maximum number of particles can be held in the excited states is equal to the total particle number Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle N } . In the semi-classical limit where the sum over all states is replaced by an integral and simple assumption that Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \epsilon_{min} = 0} we have

Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle N = N_0 + N_{ex} \,. }

where we define

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Here Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle g(\epsilon) } is the density of states. $N_{0}$ is the number of atoms in the ground state. Notice that the chemical potential Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mu = 0} is set to 0 (or in fact Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \epsilon_{min}} without any justifications. In fact, by setting $\mu =0$ what we are calculating here is the maximum possible number of atoms that can be accommodated by the "excited" states. If the total number of atoms is larger tan that, the rest must go to the ground state. A more rigorous calculation without this assumption can be found in the section Finite number effects.

The form of the transition temperature Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle T_c } and therefore the condensate atom number depends strongly on the form of Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle g(\epsilon) } which is affected by the dimension, trapping potential and the dispersion of the system. Under the most general assumption that Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle g(\epsilon) \propto \epsilon^{\alpha - 1} } , we reach

Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle N \propto C_{\alpha}(kT_c)^{\alpha}\int\limits_{0}^{\infty} \mathrm{d}x\frac{x^{\alpha-1}}{e^{x} - 1} \,. }

where Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x = \epsilon/(kT_c)} . Straightforwardly we have a simple scaling function

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Some common cases are summarized below

cases:	3D box	2D box	3D Harmonic	2D Harmonic
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We see that the semi-classical picture is already good enough to capture some basic condensate physics. As a quick exaple, for the parameters in a typical AMO experiment (3D, harmonic trapping)

• Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle N \sim 10^6 }
• harmonic trapping frequencies Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \omega_i \sim 2\pi \times100Hz }

We have Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle T_c \approx 450nK }

Thermodynamic Properties

The thermodynamic properties Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle H} can be readily calculated from the Bose distributions and sum over all the states.

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For example, the total energy

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We therefore can obtain a scaling law for all the importnat thermodynamic quantities as listed below assuming that Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle g(\epsilon) \propto \epsilon^{\alpha - 1}} and Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle H\propto T^{\delta}}

Thermodynamic Property:	E	Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle C_V=\partial E/\partial T}	Entropy S
Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \delta}	Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \alpha + 1}	Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \alpha}	Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \alpha}

It is also useful to express the relationship with dimensionless parameter Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \gamma = T/T_c} considering Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle N\propto T_c^{\alpha}} we therefore obtain

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Beyond Semi-classical Limits

A more quantum way to deal with the system is by treating the energy levels as discrete and replace the integral with summation and also consider the constraint

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Notice that this time the ground state is not separated from the summation. Given the energy spectrum Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \epsilon_i} which is often determined by the trapping potential, and temperature Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle T} , the constraint allows the calculation of Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle z(N, T)} at least numerically. We then immediately get the ground state occupation Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle N_0 = \frac{z}{1-z}} .

Superfluidity and Coherence

Superfluidity

Strictly speaking, Bose-Einstein condensation is not necessary for superfluidity, but also not sufficient. For example, The ideal Bose gas can undergo Bose-Einstein condensation, but it does not show superfluid behavior since its critical velocity is zero. Superfluidity requires interactions. The opposite case (superfluidity without BEC) occurs in lower dimensions. In 1D at T = 0 and in 2D at finite temperature, superfluidity occurs [277], but the condensate is destroyed by phase fluctuations. In 3D, condensation and superfluidity occur together. In a macroscopic bulk system, superfluidity shows itself with several features: absence of viscosity, reduced the momentum of inertia, collective excitations(second sound for example), quantized vortices etc. These effects will be discussed in section "vortices in BEC".

Off-Diagonal Long-Range Order

Another feature of a BEC is the global phase coherence. It is related to the occurrence of the off-diagonal long-range order. We shall see that macroscopic occupation of a single particle state produces such order.

Mathematically, we characterise th between atoms at position Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \vec{r}} and ${\vec {r}}'$ with

Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \rho^{(1)}(\vec{r}, \vec{r}')= \langle \hat{\psi}^{\dagger}(\vec{r})\hat{\psi}(\vec{r}') \rangle \,. }

The term Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \rho^{(1)}(\vec{r}, \vec{r}')} is sometimes also called real space first-order correlation function. We notice that Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \rho^{(1)}(\vec{r}, \vec{r})} is nothing but the atomic density at potision Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \vec{r}} .

In a homogeneous system, Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \rho^{(1)}(\vec{r}, \vec{r}')} depends only on the relative coordinate Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \vec{s} = \vec{r} - \vec{r}'} . The correlation function then reveals the distribution in the momenutm space.

$\rho ^{(1)}({\vec {s}})={\frac {1}{V}}\int \mathrm {d} {\vec {p}}\ \rho ({\vec {p}})e^{i{\vec {p}}\cdot {\vec {s}}}\,.$

• In a thermal gas, we have Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \rho^{(1)}(\vec{s}) \rightarrow 0 } as Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle |\vec{s}| \rightarrow \infty } .
• In a BEC, we have macrosopically populated state ( for example in a box we populate $|{\vec {p}}=0\rangle$), we then have Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \rho^{(1)}(\vec{s}) \rightarrow \sim \frac{N_0}{V} } as Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle |\vec{s}| \rightarrow \infty } .

File:Interference bec.jpg

Interference of two BECs. Andrew, Townsend "et. al." Science 275, 637

Direct experimental evidence of the phase coherence was found by observing the interference pattern between two BECs created by splitting a single piece (see Andrew, Townsend "et. al." Science 275, 637).

The periodicity of the fringes is related to the initial splitting and the flight time and is on the order of Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \sim10um} .

Some Remarks

Back to: Quantum gases

Weakly Interacting Homogeneous Bose Gas

Sound propagation in Bose-Einstein condensates

We've seen two general cooling methods so far: Doppler cooling and, on trapped ions, sideband cooling. Last time: Bogolubov transform to diagonalize interacting Bose Einstein condensate.

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This dispersion relation shows us that the low lying excitaitons are phonons. At Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle k\rightarrow 0} , Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle E_k = \hbar ck} that of sound, while at Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle k\rightarrow\infty} , Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle E_k = \hbar^2 k^2/2m} , a free particle. Free particles start with a quadratic dispersion relation, while phonons and other Bose systems start with a linear dispersion relation.

File:Superfluid to Mott insulator transition-bec3-sound1

File:Superfluid to Mott insulator transition-bec3-sound2

The Bogolubov solution has a great deal of physics in it. It gives the elementary excitation, and the ground state energy. In the simple model that we have a mean field, the ground state energy is

$E_{0}={\frac {U_{0}h}{2}}\left(1+{\frac {128}{15}}{\sqrt {na^{3}/\pi }}\right)\,.$

The extra correction term on the right is a small term, recently observed by the Innsbruck group, due to collective effects. The Bogolubov solution also gives the ground state wavefunction,

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where Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \epsilon} is the quantum depletion term, which makes the wavefunction satisfy

$\langle n_{k}\rangle ={\frac {v_{k}^{2}}{1-v_{k}^{2}}}$

and

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The quantum depletion term, which arises from the fact that the gas is weakly interacting, has now been experimentally observed. Recall that in the Bogolubov approximation, the original interaction

$H'=U_{0}\sum a_{p}^{\dagger }a_{q}^{\dagger }a_{r}a_{s}$

is approximated by

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The quantum depletion this leads to is very small. The effect can be more readily experimentally observed by increasing the mass of the particle, and this can be done by placing the particles in a lattice. Plotting the quantum depletion which can be obtained as a function of lattice depth, in such an experiment, one gets:

File:Superfluid to Mott insulator transition-bec3-qdepletion

Beyond a quantum depletion fraction of $0.6$, the Bogolubov approximation breaks down, as the condensate goes through a superfluid to Mott-insulator transition.

The inhomogeneous Bose gas

File:Superfluid to Mott insulator transition-bec3-first-expt

The physics of a BEC happens not just in momentum space, but also in position space, and it is useful to analyze it accordingly. With a trapping potential applied, the Hamiltonian is

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This must be approximated, in the spirit of Bogolubov's momentum space approximation, to obtain a useful solution. We thus replace

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where Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \psi(r,t)} is an expectation, and Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \tilde{\psi}(r,t)} captures the quantum (+ thermal) fluctuations. The resulting equation is a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation (also known as a Gross-Pitaevskii equation):

$i\hbar {\frac {\partial \psi }{\partial t}}=\left[{-{\frac {\hbar ^{2}}{2m}}\nabla ^{2}+V_{trap}+U_{0}N|\psi (r,t)|^{2}}\right]\psi (r,t)$

The Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle |\psi(r,t)|^2} term captures a potential proportional to the density. In the mean field approximation, it is determined by the trapping potential. This equation can now be solved. In the Thomas-Fermi approximation, with positive (repulsive) interactions, there is a characteristic length Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \xi} which arises, known as the healing length,

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arising from

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If the interactions are really strong, the kinetic energy term can be neglected, because the interactions will keep the density constant in its spatial distribution. Such an approximation is the Thomas-Fermi approximation, giving an equation for the wavefunction,

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giving the solution

$|\psi (r,t)|^{2}={\frac {1}{U_{0}}}(\mu -V(r)\,.$

The wavefunction is essentially just the potential filled up to the chemical potential level, inverted. For a quadaratic potential, Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle V(r) = m\omega^2 r^2/2} , the chemical potential is

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where Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle x = 15N_a/a_{osc}} is a common term worth identifying, and Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle a_{osc} = \sqrt{\hbar^2/m\omega}} is a characteristic length scale of the oscillator, its zero point motion. Defining $R=a_{osc}x^{1/5}$, we may find Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mu = m\omega^2 R^2/2} . This explains the profile of the condensate data obtained in experiments:

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\noindent Note that the size of the ground stat BEC is much larger than the zero-point motion of the harmonic oscillator. This is due to the pressure of the repulsive interactions. The Gross-Pitaevskii interaction gives not only the ground state wavefunction, but also the dynamics of the system. For example, it predicts soliton formation: stable wavefunctions with a size scale determined by a balance of the kinetic energy and the internal interactions. This requires, however, an attractive potential. Such soliton formation can nevertheless be seen in BEC's, with tight traps (see recent Paris experiments).

Length and energy scales in BEC

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• Size of atom: Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle a = 3} nm
• Separation between atoms Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle n^{1/3} = 200} nm
• Matter wavelength Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \lambda_{dB} = 1} Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mu} m
• Size of confinement Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle a_{osc} = 30} Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \mu} m

Note that

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For a gas, $a\ll n^{1/3}$. For a BEC, Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \lambda_{dB} \geq n^{1/3}} in addition. The corresponding energy scales are also useful to identify. Let Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \hbar\omega = a_{osc}} . Then:

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The interaction energy scale Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle U_{int} \sim (h^2/m) na} , corresponding to the healing length.

Vortices in a BEC

The Gross-Pitaevskii equations also predict the formation of topological defects in the condensate, such as vortices. These form with a chacteristic vortex diameter of $\xi$, the healing length.

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Hydrodynamics

We may transform the GPE into a hydronamic equation for a superfluid,

${\frac {\partial |\psi |^{2}}{\partial t}}+\nabla {\frac {\hbar }{2mi}}\left({\psi ^{*}\nabla \psi -\psi \nabla \psi ^{*}}\right)\,,$

by introducing flow, from current Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle j} ,

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This gives the continuity equation

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Writing $\psi =fe^{i\phi }$, and noting that the gradient of the phase gives us the velocity field, we get equations of motion for Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle f} and Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \phi} ,

$-\hbar {\frac {\partial \phi }{\partial t}}=-frac{\hbar ^{2}}{2mf}\nabla ^{2}f+{\frac {1}{2}}mv^{2}+V(r)+U_{0}f^{2}\,.$

This reduces to

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The Thomas-Fermi approximation is now applied, neglecting Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \nabla f} , but keeping $\nabla \phi$, giving

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a wave equation for the density. For Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle n_0} constant, $U_{0}$ is the speed of sound squared, Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle c = \sqrt{U_0/m}} . The Thomas-Fermi solution for Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle n_0} gives collective modes of the condensate. A droplet of condensate can have shape resonances, waves, and many other physical behaviors, captured by these solutions.

Superfluid to Mott-Insulator transition

A condenstate in a shallow standing wave potential is a BEC, well dessribed by a Bogolubov approximate solution. As the potential gets deeper, though, eventually the system transitions into a state of localized atoms, with no long-range coherence, known as a Mott insulator. These physics are important in a wide range of condensed matter systems, and can be explored deeply with BECs. The ultracold atoms are trapped in a periodic potential,

$V(x,y,z)=V_{0}\left({\sin ^{2}kx+\sin ^{2}ky+\sin ^{2}kz}\right[\,,$

and we would like to know what happens when neutral atoms are in this potential. Traditionally, this is studied in condensed matter physics in the context of atoms in a periodic potential, but many anologies exist for the neutral atom system. The Hamiltonian is

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in one dimension, giving the Bloch ansatz wavefunction solution

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where Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle q} is a quasi-momentum labeling the eigenstate, and $U_{q}(x)$ is a periodic function. For a given Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle q} there are several solutions, labeled by Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle n} , the band index. To solve this equaiton, a Fourier expansion of $U_{q}(x)$ is used, with elements Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle c_l^{a,n} e^{i2l k x}} . The potential is also expanded as Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle V_r e^{i2lkx}} . The solutions to the Schrodinger equation,

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give

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Graphically, these solutions are as follows. If energies are plotted as a function of Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle \hbar k} , we get:

File:Superfluid to Mott insulator transition-bec3-smott-dispersion

With no interations, we get a free particle dispersion diagram. But with the periodic potential, a Brilloiuin zone appears, forbidding momentum beyond $\pm \hbar k$, giving bands. The potential couples the bands; for example, at Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle V \sim 3 E_r} (where Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle E_r = k^2/2m} ), the band degnericies are lifted to become:

File:Superfluid to Mott insulator transition-bec3-3er

\noindent At higher potentials, the bands become even flatter. We will be interestd in the limit in which Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle V_r/E_r} is large, and we shall focus on the physics of the lowest, $n=1$ band, in which in the limit of tight binding, the energy is

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becoming constant with respect to quasi-momentum. The derivation of the energy as a function of quasi-momentum gives

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where Failed to parse (MathML with SVG or PNG fallback (recommended for modern browsers and accessibility tools): Invalid response ("Math extension cannot connect to Restbase.") from server "https://wikimedia.org/api/rest_v1/":): {\displaystyle a = \frac{\lambda}{2} = \pi/k} , and the paramter $J$ tells us how wide the band is and how large the dispersion region is.

BEC to BCS crossover transition

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