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Ground State of a trapped Bose-Einstein Condensate in Two Dimensions; Beyond the Mean-field Approximation

Condensed Matter 2009-10-31 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We consider the ground state of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate in two dimensions. In the mean-field approximation, the ground state density profile satisfies the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. We compute the leading quantum corrections to the density profile to second order in an expansion around the Thomas-Fermi limit. By summing the ladder diagrams, we are generalizing Schick's result for the ground state energy of a homogeneouns Bose gas to the case of a trapped Bose gas.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0012101,
  title  = {Ground State of a trapped Bose-Einstein Condensate in Two Dimensions; Beyond the Mean-field Approximation},
  author = {Jens O. Andersen and Haarek Haugerud},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0012101},
  year   = {2009}
}

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19 pages, 2 figures, revtex