Landau-Khalatnikov two-fluid hydrodynamics of a trapped Bose gas

Details Landau-Khalatnikov two-fluid hydrodynamics of a trapped Bose gas Landau-Khalatnikov two-fluid hydrodynamics of a trapped Bose gas

2000-09-21

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0009333v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

26 pages, 3 postscript figures, submitted to PRA

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.63.033608

Starting from the quantum kinetic equation for the non-condensate atoms and the generalized Gross-Pitaevskii equation for the condensate, we derive the two-fluid hydrodynamic equations of a trapped Bose gas at finite temperatures. We follow the standard Chapman-Enskog procedure, starting from a solution of the kinetic equation corresponding to the complete local equilibrium between the condensate and the non-condensate components. Our hydrodynamic equations are shown to reduce to a form identical to the well-known Landau-Khalatnikov two-fluid equations, with hydrodynamic damping due to the deviation from local equilibrium. The deviation from local equilibrium within the thermal cloud gives rise to dissipation associated with shear viscosity and thermal conduction. In addition, we show that effects due to the deviation from the diffusive local equilibrium between the condensate and the non-condensate (recently considered by Zaremba, Nikuni and Griffin) can be described by four frequency-dependent second viscosity transport coefficients. We also derive explicit formulas for all the transport coefficients. These results are used to introduce two new characteristic relaxation times associated with hydrodynamic damping. These relaxation times give the rate at which local equilibrium is reached and hence determine whether one is in the two-fluid hydrodynamic region.

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