Ballistic motion of a tracer particle coupled to a Bose gas (Q2450103)

This paper shows the study of motion of a very heavy tracer particle coupled to a very dense, very weakly interacting Bose gas at zero temperature that exhibits Bose-Einstein condensation. In such conditions the speed of sound is strictly positive. Assuming that the initial speed of the particle is well below the speed of sound in the gas, one can expect that the motion of the particle approaches an uniform ballistic motion. Some results in this direction were recently published, and in this paper these results are proved complementary. The traced particle has a mass \(\Lambda M\) and the Bose gas has the density \(\Lambda\rho_0\) with two-body interactions described by \(\Lambda^{-2}\kappa\). If the speed of the tracer particle is greater than the speed of sound it emits sound waves into the condensate; such a particle loses its kinetic energy when approaching the speed of sound in the Bose gas. Having this, there are several possible models and the model considered in this paper is called E-model, where \(2\kappa\rho_0/g^2:=\lambda=const\) and \(g,\kappa\rightarrow 0\). The whole paper is divided into 5 sections. After the introduction in Section 2, the authors provide the main result of the paper, namely Theorem 2.1 which has four parts. The first part of this theorem is proved in Section 2, and the next two sections contain a presentation of other necessary proofs for the three other parts. There are also two appendices that show some necessary minor proofs.