Macroscopic Feynman Cycles and Poisson--Kingman Universality in Bose Condensation
Abstract
We prove a canonical limit theorem for the macroscopic Feynman cycles of finite-volume ideal Bose gases. Cycles carry marks in a general Polish space , encoding spatial, geometric, spectral, or internal data. After removing a deterministic background density , the marked macroscopic cycle process converges in the canonical ensemble to a marked Poisson--Kingman bridge of total mass . The bridge is constructed from a marked Poisson point process with intensity , conditioned on total mass , where the kernel and its total-mass profile are determined by the low-energy spectral data visible on the scale . When is constant, the bridge reduces to a Gamma bridge and the ranked cycle lengths follow the Poisson--Dirichlet law. We verify this for the ideal Bose gas in dimension under periodic, Dirichlet, and Neumann boundary conditions: in all three cases and the ranked lengths converge to , while the mark kernels distinguish the three models through their winding, killed-bridge, and reflected-bridge geometry. When is not constant, the bridge is no longer Gamma and the ranked lengths are not Poisson--Dirichlet. As a concrete example, a critical double-well potential whose tunnelling splitting satisfies gives ; more generally, a finite-type visible spectrum with components yields . These results identify Poisson--Kingman bridges as the canonical universality class for marked macroscopic Bose cycles, with the visible low-energy spectrum selecting the particular bridge.
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@article{arxiv.2607.04264,
title = {Macroscopic Feynman Cycles and Poisson--Kingman Universality in Bose Condensation},
author = {Wen Sun},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.04264},
year = {2026}
}
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66 pages