- •General aspects
- •Introduction
- •Single particle
- •General aspects
- •Traps
- •Many particles
- •Basics of second quantization
- •Bosons
- •Fermions
- •Single particle operator
- •Two particle operator
- •Bosons
- •Free Bose gas
- •General properties
- •BEC in lower dimensions
- •Trapped Bose gas
- •Parabolic trap
- •Weakly interacting Bose gas
- •BEC in an isotr. harmonic trap at T=0
- •Comparison of terms in GP
- •Thomas-Fermi-Regime
- •Fermions
- •Free Fermions
- •General properties
- •Pressure of degenerated Fermi gas
- •Excitations of Fermions at T=0
- •Trapped non-interacting Fermi gas at T=0
- •Weakly interacting Fermi gas
- •Ground state
- •Decay of excitations
- •Landau-Fermi-Liquid
- •Zero Sound
- •Bardeen-Cooper-Shieffer-Theory
- •General treatment
- •BCS Hamiltonian
- •General energy-momentum relation
- •Calculation for section 3.3.1
- •Lifetime and Fermis Golden Rule
- •Bibliography
2.3. WEAKLY INTERACTING BOSE GAS |
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2.3Weakly interacting Bose gas
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which is a HAMILTONoperator for quasi particles in a harmonic potential. To find the relation between these quasi-particles and our original (or base) operators we assume according to BOGOLYUBOV
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Figure 2.5: Radial part f (r) of the wave function in superfluid B OSE gas
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Figure 2.6: Many vortices in superfluid B OSE gas
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