Effective field theory approach to Bose--Einstein condensation
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-10-30 v4 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
We consider the low-energy collective excitations at finite temperature of Bose--Einstein condensed gases (and liquids as well). A most general model-independent effective Lagrangian is written down according to a prescription obtained from the breakdown of the global symmetry U(1). To show how the theory predicts easily, we derive the momentum and temperature dependence of the damping of excitations by means of power counting as an example.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9711250,
title = {Effective field theory approach to Bose--Einstein condensation},
author = {W. Vincent Liu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9711250},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
12 pages, 1 figure included. An invited article for Int. J. Mod. Phys. B. This revised version adds some discussions relevant to Bose-Einstein condensates in a harmonic trap