Published January 7, 2002 | Version v1
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Rigorous approach to the problem of ultraviolet divergencies in dilute Bose gases

  • 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089-0484 (United States)
  • 2. Laboratoire de Physique Theorique des Liquides, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, URA 765 of CNRS, case 121, 4 place Jussieu 75252 Paris Cedex, 05 (France)

Description

In this Letter we consider a system of N pairwise finite-range interacting atoms and prove rigorously that in the zero-range interaction limit all the eigenstates and eigenenergies of the Hamiltonian converge to those corresponding to N atoms interacting via the Fermi-Huang regularized pseudopotential. Next, we show that the latter eigensystem (if treated exactly) is invariant under a nontrivial transformation of the interaction potential. Finally, we realize that most of the approximate schemes of many-body physics do not exhibit this invariance: We use this property to resolve all inconsistencies of the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov variational formalism known thus far

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review Letters
Journal Volume
88
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 010402-010402.4
ISSN
0031-9007
CODEN
PRLTAO

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
35011063
Subject category
S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
Descriptors DEI
BOSE-EINSTEIN GAS; BOSONS; EIGENFUNCTIONS; EIGENSTATES; EIGENVALUES; HAMILTONIANS; HARTREE-FOCK-BOGOLYUBOV THEORY; POTENTIAL ENERGY; VARIATIONAL METHODS
Descriptors DEC
CALCULATION METHODS; ENERGY; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; QUANTUM OPERATORS

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(c) 2001 The American Physical Society