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Gross-Pitaevskii Equation for a System of Randomly Interacting Cold Bosons

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks 2009-09-23 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

Random interaction models have been successful in describing the amorphous properties of solids such as spin-glasses and structural glasses. This modelling approach is applied to a system of zero-spin cold bosons moving in an amorphous environment. The bosons are given to interact according to a non-random hard-core interaction. Additionally the bosons are subjected to a random interaction potential similar to that used for glasses. The approach is to apply a combination of replica methods and field theoretic techniques developed for superfluid Bose systems. This leads to an equation for the low-temperature Bose-Einstein condensate which is derived in the Hartree-Fock approximation. The equation is similar to the Gross-Pitaevskii equation, but the hard-core coupling constant is renormalised by the presence of the random interactions in a position dependent way. The amorphous contribution contains the replica diagonal and off-diagonal Green's functions, for which the Dyson equations are formulated.

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@article{arxiv.0909.3920,
  title  = {Gross-Pitaevskii Equation for a System of Randomly Interacting Cold Bosons},
  author = {J. van Baardewijk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.3920},
  year   = {2009}
}

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