Bose-Einstein condensation and symmetry breaking

DOI10.1103/PHYSREVA.71.023602arXivcond-mat/0412440MaRDI QIDQ6465982FDOQ6465982

Publication date: 16 December 2004

Abstract: Adding a gauge symmetry breaking field -

usqrt{V}(a_0+a_0^*) to the Hamiltonian of some simplified models of an interacting Bose gas we compute the condensate density and the symmetry breaking order parameter in the limit of infinite volume and prove Bogoliubov's asymptotic hypothesis lim_{V oinfty}< a_0>/sqrt{V}={ m sgn} u lim_{V oinfty}sqrt{< a_0^*a_0>/V} where the averages are taken in the ground state or in thermal equilibrium states. Letting

u tend to zero in this equation we obtain that Bose-Einstein condensation occurs if and only if the gauge symmetry is spontaneously broken. The simplification consists in dropping the off-diagonal terms in the momentum representation of the pair interaction. The models include the mean field and the imperfect (Huang-Yang-Luttinger) Bose gas. An implication of the result is that the compressibility sum rule cannot hold true in the ground state of the one-dimensional mean-field Bose gas. Our method is based on a resolution of the Hamiltonian into a family of single-mode (k=0) Hamiltonians and on the analysis of the associated microcanonical ensembles.

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