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Anomalous Scattering of Low-lying Excitations in a Spin-1 Bose-Einstein Condensate

Quantum Gases 2015-09-22 v1

Abstract

We present the simplest theory of perfect tunneling of an excitation in a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) through an impurity potential with an arbitrary shape in the low-momentum limit. That is for the transverse spin wave in the ferromagnetic phase of a spin-1 BEC. This mode obeys a Schr\"odinger-type equation; yet, effects of the potential on its transmission coefficient TT and on its scattering cross section sigmasigma vanish in that limit. The order parameter determines TT, and the momentum pp-dependence of sigmasigma exhibits a Rayleigh scattering type (sigmaproptop4sigma propto p^{4}). These properties are common between two types of Nambu-Goldstone modes: this spin wave and the Bogoliubov mode.

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@article{arxiv.1012.5618,
  title  = {Anomalous Scattering of Low-lying Excitations in a Spin-1 Bose-Einstein Condensate},
  author = {Shohei Watabe and Yusuke Kato},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1012.5618},
  year   = {2015}
}

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