- •General aspects
- •Introduction
- •Single particle
- •General aspects
- •Traps
- •Many particles
- •Basics of second quantization
- •Bosons
- •Fermions
- •Single particle operator
- •Two particle operator
- •Bosons
- •Free Bose gas
- •General properties
- •BEC in lower dimensions
- •Trapped Bose gas
- •Parabolic trap
- •Weakly interacting Bose gas
- •BEC in an isotr. harmonic trap at T=0
- •Comparison of terms in GP
- •Thomas-Fermi-Regime
- •Fermions
- •Free Fermions
- •General properties
- •Pressure of degenerated Fermi gas
- •Excitations of Fermions at T=0
- •Trapped non-interacting Fermi gas at T=0
- •Weakly interacting Fermi gas
- •Ground state
- •Decay of excitations
- •Landau-Fermi-Liquid
- •Zero Sound
- •Bardeen-Cooper-Shieffer-Theory
- •General treatment
- •BCS Hamiltonian
- •General energy-momentum relation
- •Calculation for section 3.3.1
- •Lifetime and Fermis Golden Rule
- •Bibliography
1.4. BASICS OF SECOND QUANTIZATION |
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A general wave function can be written as a linear combination of the above functions
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1.4Basics of second quantization
We have states n1, n2, ::: with n1, n2, ::: particles. Each state is described by jn1;n2;:::i with the special state vacuum j0;0;:::i j0i. The following operators are relevant to these states:
an is the annihilation operator: nn ! nn 1 (Note that an j0i = 0 for any n)
a†n is the creation operator: nn ! nn + 1
Note that these operators annihilate or create particles in a given quantum state unlike the operators in first quantization which change the quantum number of one quantum state.
As was already mentioned above, there are two types of particles.
1.4.1Bosons
In this case we have the following commutation relations:
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Because states with different n are independent, we consider only one state to understand the consequences of the above generator algebras.
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1.4. BASICS OF SECOND QUANTIZATION |
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The operators an and a†n obey anticommutation relations
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By using the field operators yˆ (~r) and yˆ † (~r) various quantum mechanical operators can easily be transformed from the space representation (~r-representation) into the occupation number representation (n-representation).
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Figure 1.1: Interchange of quantum state
This term describes the scattering of two particles in initial states n1 and n2 into final states n10 and n20 with an amplitude hn10 n20 jUIjn2n1i.
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To calculate g we have to switch carefully to the center of mass reference system and use relative coordinates. Then g turns out to be the FOURIER transform of
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But quantum degenerate cold gases, eqn. (1.1)-(1.3), imply collisions of particles with low momenta (i.e. slow particles, r0 p ~). From scattering theory we know that in this regime collisions are characterized by only one parameter, the scattering length a. Therefore, in the BORN approximation,
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Figure 1.2: Plot of inter atomic potential