How do sound waves in a Bose-Einstein condensate move so fast?

Details How do sound waves in a Bose-Einstein condensate move so fast? How do sound waves in a Bose-Einstein condensate move so fast?

2003-06-13

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0306372v2

Phys.Rev. A68 (2003) 055601

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

6 pages, 2 figures (.eps), LaTeX2e. More introductory discussion added

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.68.055601

Low-momentum excitations of a dilute Bose-Einstein condensate behave as phonons and move at a finite velocity v_s. Yet the atoms making up the phonon excitation each move very slowly; v_a = p/m --> 0. A simple "cartoon picture" is suggested to understand this phenomenon intuitively. It implies a relation v_s/v_a = N_ex, where N_ex is the number of excited atoms making up the phonon. This relation does indeed follow from the standard Bogoliubov theory.

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