Excitation spectrum and electrical properties of the condensate of Bose atoms

It is shown that the condensate of a degenerated Bose gas consisting of neutral atoms possesses electrical properties which differ from a trivial polarization of the atoms in the electric field. A notion of an isotropic quadrupole moment (IQM) of a neutral atom is introduced. A distribution of IQM r...

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Veröffentlicht in:Condensed matter physics 2005, Vol.8 (4), p.773-778
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Zusammenfassung:It is shown that the condensate of a degenerated Bose gas consisting of neutral atoms possesses electrical properties which differ from a trivial polarization of the atoms in the electric field. A notion of an isotropic quadrupole moment (IQM) of a neutral atom is introduced. A distribution of IQM reflects a specific spatial ordering in the condensate and produces a distribution of the electric potential. Small vibrations of the Bose gas are considered and a correction to the Bogoliubov spectrum of elementary excitations in the degenerated Bose gas is obtained. An additional term in the Gross-Pitaevskii equation which is responsible for such a correction is found and a new type of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NSE) is constructed. Since the Bose condensate is akin to the superfluid component in He II, a manifestation of its electrical activity could have a relation to the electrical activity of the superfluid liquid observed experimentally.
ISSN:1607-324X
DOI:10.5488/CMP.8.4.773