ON SUPERFLUIDITY AND SUPPRESSED LIGHT SCATTERING IN BECs

DOI10.1142/S0217984906011141zbMATH Open1107.82416arXivcond-mat/0309211MaRDI QIDQ5481963FDOQ5481963

Authors: David I. Santiago, Zaira Nazario 

Publication date: 24 August 2006

Published in: Modern Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We show that the suppression of light scattering off a Bose Einstein Condensate is equivalent to the Landau argument for superfluidity and thus is a consequence of the {it Principle of Superfluidity}. The superfluid ground state of a BEC contains nonseparable, nontrivial correlations between the bosons that make up the system, i. e., it is entangled. The correlations in the ground state entangle the bosons into a coherent state for the lowest energy state. The entanglement is so extreme that the bosons that make up the system cannot be excited at long wavenumbers. Their existence at low energies is impossible. Only quantum sound can be excited, i.e. the excitations are Bogolyubov quasiparticles which do not resemble free bosons whatsoever at low energies. This means that the system is superfluid by the Landau argument and the superfluidity is ultimately the reason for suppressed scattering at low wavelengths.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0309211

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zbMATH Keywords

order parametersuperfluiditylight scatteringstructure factorBose Einstein condensatesphonon excitations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (78A60) Statistical mechanics of superfluids (82D50)

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• Beyond superfluidity in non-equilibrium Bose–Einstein condensates
• Scattering of fermions on a superfluid Bose condensate
• Opto-Mechanical Effects in Superradiant Light Scattering by Bose—Einstein Condensate in an Optical Cavity

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