Quantum Field Theoretical Description of Unstable Behavior of Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates with Complex Eigenvalues of Bogoliubov-de Gennes Equations

Details Quantum Field Theoretical Description of Unstable Behavior of Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates with Complex Eigenvalues of Bogoliubov-de Gennes Equations Quantum Field Theoretical Description of Unstable Behavior of Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates with Complex Eigenvalues of Bogoliubov-de Gennes Equations

2006-09-04

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0609052v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

29 pages

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.aop.2007.01.008

The Bogoliubov-de Gennes equations are used for a number of theoretical works on the trapped Bose-Einstein condensates. These equations are known to give the energies of the quasi-particles when all the eigenvalues are real. We consider the case in which these equations have complex eigenvalues. We give the complete set including those modes whose eigenvalues are complex. The quantum fields which represent neutral atoms are expanded in terms of the complete set. It is shown that the state space is an indefinite metric one and that the free Hamiltonian is not diagonalizable in the conventional bosonic representation. We introduce a criterion to select quantum states describing the metastablity of the condensate, called the physical state conditions. In order to study the instability, we formulate the linear response of the density against the time-dependent external perturbation within the regime of Kubo's linear response theory. Some states, satisfying all the physical state conditions, give the blow-up and damping behavior of the density distributions corresponding to the complex eigenmodes. It is qualitatively consistent with the result of the recent analyses using the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation.

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