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Two-Fluid Hydrodynamics for a Trapped Weakly-Interacting Bose Gas

Condensed Matter 2009-10-30 v1

Abstract

We derive the coupled equations of motion for the condensate (superfluid) and non-condensate (normal fluid) degrees of freedom in a trapped Bose gas at finite temperatures. Our results are based on the Hartree-Fock-Popov approximation for the time-dependent condensate wavefunction and an assumption of local equilibrium for the non-condensate atoms. In the case of a uniform weakly-interacting gas, our formalism gives a microscopic derivation of the well-known two-fluid equations of Landau. The collective modes in a parabolically trapped Bose gas include the analogue of the out-of-phase second sound mode in uniform systems.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9705134,
  title  = {Two-Fluid Hydrodynamics for a Trapped Weakly-Interacting Bose Gas},
  author = {E. Zaremba and A. Griffin and T. Nikuni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9705134},
  year   = {2009}
}

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