Nonperturbative dynamical many-body theory of a Bose-Einstein condensate

doi:10.1103/PHYSREVA.72.0

Title: Nonperturbative dynamical many-body theory of a Bose-Einstein condensate

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A dynamical many-body theory is presented which systematically extends beyond mean-field and perturbative quantum-field theoretical procedures. It allows us to study the dynamics of strongly interacting quantum-degenerate atomic gases. The nonperturbative approximation scheme is based on a systematic expansion of the two-particle irreducible effective action in powers of the inverse number of field components. This yields dynamic equations which contain direct scattering, memory, and 'off-shell' effects that are not captured by the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. This is relevant to account for the dynamics of, e.g., strongly interacting quantum gases atoms near a scattering resonance, or of one-dimensional Bose gases in the Tonks-Girardeau regime. We apply the theory to a homogeneous ultracold Bose gas in one spatial dimension. Considering the time evolution of an initial state far from equilibrium we show that it quickly evolves to a nonequilibrium quasistationary state and discuss the possibility to attribute an effective temperature to it. The approach to thermal equilibrium is found to be extremely slow.

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Gasenzer, Thomas; Berges, Juergen; Schmidt, Michael G.; Seco, Marcos ^[1]

Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Universitaet Heidelberg, Philosophenweg 16, 69120 Heidelberg (Germany)

Publication Date:: Thu Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2005

OSTI Identifier:: 20786341

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Resource Relation:: Journal Name: Physical Review. A; Journal Volume: 72; Journal Issue: 6; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.72.063604; (c) 2005 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; ACTION INTEGRAL; APPROXIMATIONS; ATOMS; BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION; BOSE-EINSTEIN GAS; MANY-BODY PROBLEM; MEAN-FIELD THEORY; ONE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS; RESONANCE; SCATTERING; THERMAL EQUILIBRIUM

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                    Gasenzer, Thomas, Berges, Juergen, Schmidt, Michael G., and Seco, Marcos. Nonperturbative dynamical many-body theory of a Bose-Einstein condensate.  United States: N. p., 2005. 
        Web.  doi:10.1103/PHYSREVA.72.0.

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                    Gasenzer, Thomas, Berges, Juergen, Schmidt, Michael G., & Seco, Marcos. Nonperturbative dynamical many-body theory of a Bose-Einstein condensate.  United States.  doi:10.1103/PHYSREVA.72.0.

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                    Gasenzer, Thomas, Berges, Juergen, Schmidt, Michael G., and Seco, Marcos. Thu .  
        "Nonperturbative dynamical many-body theory of a Bose-Einstein condensate".  United States.  
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  title        = {Nonperturbative dynamical many-body theory of a Bose-Einstein condensate},

  author       = {Gasenzer, Thomas and Berges, Juergen and Schmidt, Michael G. and Seco, Marcos},

  abstractNote = {A dynamical many-body theory is presented which systematically extends beyond mean-field and perturbative quantum-field theoretical procedures. It allows us to study the dynamics of strongly interacting quantum-degenerate atomic gases. The nonperturbative approximation scheme is based on a systematic expansion of the two-particle irreducible effective action in powers of the inverse number of field components. This yields dynamic equations which contain direct scattering, memory, and 'off-shell' effects that are not captured by the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. This is relevant to account for the dynamics of, e.g., strongly interacting quantum gases atoms near a scattering resonance, or of one-dimensional Bose gases in the Tonks-Girardeau regime. We apply the theory to a homogeneous ultracold Bose gas in one spatial dimension. Considering the time evolution of an initial state far from equilibrium we show that it quickly evolves to a nonequilibrium quasistationary state and discuss the possibility to attribute an effective temperature to it. The approach to thermal equilibrium is found to be extremely slow.},

  doi          = {10.1103/PHYSREVA.72.0},

  journal      = {Physical Review. A},

  number       = 6,

  volume       = 72,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Thu Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2005},

  month        = {Thu Dec 15 00:00:00 EST 2005}

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