The Surface Region of Superfluid $^4$He as a Dilute Bose-Condensed Gas

Details The Surface Region of Superfluid $^4$He as a Dilute Bose-Condensed Gas The Surface Region of Superfluid $^4$He as a Dilute Bose-Condensed Gas

1996-06-10

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9606067v1

Physics

Condensed Matter

6 pages, paper submitted to Low Temperature Conference (LT21), Prague, Aug., 1996; to appear in proceedings

Scientific paper

10.1007/BF02569566

In the low-density surface region of superfluid $^4$He, the atoms are far apart and collisions can be ignored. The only effect of the interactions is from the long-range attractive Hartree potential produced by the distant high-density bulk liquid. As a result, at $T=0$, all the atoms occupy the same single-particle state in the low-density tail. Striking numerical evidence for this 100\% surface BEC was given by Pandharipande and coworkers in 1988. We derive a generalized Gross-Pitaevskii equation for the inhomogeneous condensate wave function $\Phi(z)$ in the low-density region valid at all temperatures. The overall amplitude of $\Phi(z)$ is fixed by the bulk liquid, which ensures that it vanishes everywhere at the bulk transition temperature.

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