Multiscale Theory of Finite Size Bose Systems: Implications for Collective and Single-Particle Excitations

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2012-03-05

arxiv.org/abs/1203.0794v1

Physical Review A 79, 013628, 2009

Physics

Mathematical Physics

28 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.79.013628

Boson droplets (i.e., dense assemblies of bosons at low temperature) are shown to mask a significant amount of single-particle behavior and to manifest collective, droplet-wide excitations. To investigate the balance between single-particle and collective behavior, solutions to the wave equation for a finite size Bose system are constructed in the limit where the ratio \varepsilon of the average nearest-neighbor boson distance to the size of the droplet or the wavelength of density disturbances is small. In this limit, the lowest order wave function varies smoothly across the system, i.e., is devoid of structure on the scale of the average nearest-neighbor distance. The amplitude of short range structure in the wave function is shown to vanish as a power of \varepsilon when the interatomic forces are relatively weak. However, there is residual short range structure that increases with the strength of interatomic forces. While the multiscale approach is applied to boson droplets, the methodology is applicable to any finite size bose system and is shown to be more direct than field theoretic methods. Conclusions for Helium-4 nanodroplets are drawn.

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