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Kinetic equations for Bose-Einstein condensates from the 2PI effective action

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We use the 2PI effective action of a relativistic scalar field theory to derive kinetic equations for a Bose-condensed system near the phase transition.We start from equations of motion derived within a 1/N-expansion at NLO. In taking the non-relativistic limit we obtain a generalized Gross-Pitaevskii equation for the condensate field. Within the Popov approximation we explicitly compute the collision term up to order g^2 using the Kadanoff-Baym formalism. For the sake of self-consistency we derive in the same way a Boltzmann equation for the non-condensate distribution function. The final results are in agreement to those previously obtained by Griffin, Nikuni and Zaremba and by Stoof.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0412310,
  title  = {Kinetic equations for Bose-Einstein condensates from the 2PI effective action},
  author = {R. Baier and T. Stockamp},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0412310},
  year   = {2007}
}

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11 pages, 2 figures; minor changes, references added

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