Robustness of Wave Functions of Interacting Many Bosons in a Leaky Box
Quantum Physics
2009-11-06 v3 Statistical Mechanics
Atomic Physics
Abstract
We study the robustness, against the leakage of bosons, of wave functions of interacting many bosons confined in a finite box, by deriving and analyzing a general equation of motion for the reduced density operator. We identify a robust wave function that remains a pure state, whereas other wave functions, such as the Bogoliubov's ground state and the ground state with a fixed number of bosons, evolve into mixed states. Although these states all have the off-diagonal long-range order, and almost the same energy densities, we argue that only the robust state is realized as a macroscopic quantum state.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0002052,
title = {Robustness of Wave Functions of Interacting Many Bosons in a Leaky Box},
author = {Akira Shimizu and Takayuki Miyadera},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0002052},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
Minor typographical errors, which are summarized in the Erratum (which has been submitted to PRL), have been fixed