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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS B-ATOMIC MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS
Volume 44, Issue 19, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0953-4075/44/19/195303
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- National Research Foundation of South Africa
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The Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation is a long-wavelength approach widely used to describe the dilute Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC). However, in many physical situations, such as higher densities, it is unlikely that this approximation suffices; hence, one might need models which would account for long-range correlations and multi-body interactions. We show that the Bose liquid described by the logarithmic wave equation has a number of drastic differences from the GP one. It possesses the self-sustainability property: while the free GP condensate tends to spill all over the available volume, the logarithmic one tends to form a Gaussian-type droplet-even in the absence of an external trapping potential. The quasi-particle modes of the logarithmic BEC are shown to acquire a finite size despite the bare particles being assumed to be point-like, i.e. the spatial extent emerges here as a result of quantum many-body correlations. Finally, we study the elementary excitations and demonstrate that the background density changes the topological structure of their momentum space which, in turn, affects their dispersion relations. Depending on the density, the latter can be of the massive relativistic, massless relativistic, tachyonic and quaternionic type.
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