Motion of a heavy impurity through a Bose-Einstein condensate

Details Motion of a heavy impurity through a Bose-Einstein condensate Motion of a heavy impurity through a Bose-Einstein condensate

2003-07-10

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0307247v2

Phys. Rev. A 70, 013608 (2004)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

14 pages, Latex

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.70.013608

We study motion of a point-like impurity in a Bose-Einstein condensate at T=0. By solving the Gross-Pitaevskii equation in a perturbative manner we calculate the induced mass of the impurity and the drag force on the impurity in 3D, 2D and 1D cases. The relationship between the induced mass and the normal mass of fluid is found and coincides with the result of the Bogoliubov theory. The drag force appears for supersonic motion of the impurity. In 1D the drag force is investigated also on the basis of the exact Lieb-Liniger theory, using the dynamic form factor, which has been evaluated by the Haldane method of the calculation of correlation functions. In this theory the force appears for an arbitrarily small velocity of the impurity. The possibility of measuring the form factor in existing experiments is noted.

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