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The theoretical description of trapped weakly-interacting Bose-Einstein condensates is characterized by a large number of seemingly very different approaches which have been developed over the course of time by researchers with very…
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Systems consisting of cold interacting bosons show interesting collective phenomena such as Bose-Einstein condensation or superfluidity and are currently studied in condensed matter and atomic physics. Of particular interest are nonideal…
We develop a finite temperature perturbation theory (beyond the mean field) for a Bose-condensed gas and calculate temperature-dependent damping rates and energy shifts for Bogolyubov excitations of any energy. The theory is generalized for…
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