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Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC) is a state of matter that arises in
dilute gases with large number of particles at very low
temperatures [19,20,21,22,23,24]. BEC
can be described by the Nonlinear Schrödinger equation (also known as
Gross-Pitaevskii equation [25]). Here, we apply the
theorem to this well studied model. The evolution of the state
function
is described by the following equation
with a corresponding Hamiltonian
The term
is introduced for convenience as will become
clear later. Following [7], let us consider the
amplitude-phase representation of the order parameter
:
Now, we introduce Hamiltonian momentum
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and rewrite Eq. (87) in terms of new canonical variables
and
as
where
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Let us consider weak perturbations on background of a strong
condensate,
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We now choose
which gives us
. Substituting Eq. (90) into
Eq. (89) we have
where the subscripts denote the order of the term with respect to
perturbation amplitudes. Since in this paper we study the linear
dynamics, we only consider the quadratic part of the Hamiltonian
Here, we used the fact that the spatial derivative adds one order in
and we neglected the terms of the order two and higher.
In order to apply the theorem to
we first transform to Fourier
space and then switch to normal variables. Let us denote
,
and
. We have
and
. Transforming
into Fourier space we obtain
where we used the following simplified notations:
,
and subscript
. Next, we switch
to normal variables using the transformation
In normal variables,
reads
The only part of the coefficient in the second parenthesis we are
interested in is the one that satisfies Eq. (65):
Since
and
are slowly varying functions of
, so
are
,
and
. Therefore, their Fourier transforms
are peaked around zero making the terms proportional to
of the second order in
, which can
be neglected. Finally, we can write down the Hamiltonian in the form
given in Eq. (4)
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where
In terms of window transformations, which we denote here as
the
Hamiltonian reads
where
Up to the first order in
, we have
Here,
is an even function of
which means that
and
. Then, the position dependent frequency of the small
perturbations in the presence of the condensate becomes
Bogolyubov's transformation,
, is given by the following
coefficients
In terms of variables
the Hamiltonian takes the following form
where
Finally, we perform the near-identity transformation
where
The resulting Hamiltonian attains the canonical form (5).
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Dr Yuri V Lvov
2008-07-08