The kinetic and interaction energies of a trapped Bose gas: beyond the mean field

DOI10.1016/S0375-9601(02)00017-8MaRDI QIDQ5954908zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Yu. Cherny, A. A. Shanenko

Publication date 5 February 2002

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0105339

zbMATH Keywords

characteristic lengthsdilute ground-state gaspairwise interaction dependence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

Abstract: The kinetic and interaction energies of a three-dimensional dilute ground-state Bose gas confined in a trap are calculated beyond a mean-field treatment. They are found to depend on the pairwise interaction trough two characteristic lengths: the first, a, is the well-known scattering length and the second, b, is related to the latter by b=a-lambda d a/dlambda with lambda being the coupling constant. Numerical estimations show that the pairwise interaction energy of a dilute gas of alkali atoms in a trap is negative (in spite of the positive scattering length); its absolute value is found by about the order of magnitude larger than that of the mean-field interaction energy that corresponds to the last term in the Gross-Pitaevskii functional.

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