Physics – Condensed Matter – Quantum Gases
Scientific paper
2011-01-26
Chapter in "Non-Equilibrium Quantum Gases at Finite Temperatures", ed. M. Davis, S. Gardiner, N. Nygaard, N. Proukakis, and M.
Physics
Condensed Matter
Quantum Gases
Scientific paper
The first successful macroscopic theory for the motion of superfluid helium was that of Lev Landau (1941) in which the fluid is modelled phenomenologically as an interpenetrating mixture of a superfluid and a normal fluid. It has later been shown that Landau's two-fluid model can be rigorously derived from a one-fluid model within the classical fields approximation. Assuming a separation of scales exists between the slowly varying, large-scale, background (condensate) field, and the short rapidly evolving excitations, a full description of the kinetics between the condensate and the thermal cloud can be obtained. The kinetics describes three-wave and four-wave interactions that resemble the C_{12} and C_{22} terms, respectively, in the collision integral of the ZNG theory. The scale separation assumption precludes analysis of the healing layer and thus does not include the dynamics of quantised vortices. Whilst the analysis required the use of small parameters arising from the scale separation assumption and the assumption of a weakly depleted condensate, we expect the results to hold true over a wider range of parameters. This belief is motivated by the validity of Landau's two-fluid model which can be derived from a one-fluid model using nothing more than Galilean invariance principles. Indeed, we argue that similar arguments can be used to recover a two-fluid model directly from a classical field simply by invoking a local gauge transformation. This derivation does not require any small parameters to be introduced suggesting that the results that lead to the kinetic equations may turn out to be more general.
Berloff Natalia G.
Roberts Paul H.
Salman Hayder
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