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Main Authors: Bai, Tianyi, König, Wolfgang, Vogel, Quirin
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.02270
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author Bai, Tianyi
König, Wolfgang
Vogel, Quirin
author_facet Bai, Tianyi
König, Wolfgang
Vogel, Quirin
contents We consider the non-interacting Bose gas of $N$ bosons in dimension $d\geq 3$ in a trap in a mean-field setting with a vanishing factor $a_N$ in front of the kinetic energy. The choice $a_N=N^{-2/d}$ is the semi-classical setting and was analysed in great detail in a special, interacting case in Deuchert and Seiringer (2021). Using a version of the well-known Feynman--Kac representation and a further representation in terms of a Poisson point process, we derive precise asymptotics for the reduced one-particle density matrix, implying off-diagonal long-range order (ODLRO, a well-known criterion for Bose--Einstein condensation) for $a_N$ above a certain threshold and non-occurrence of ODLRO for $a_N$ below that threshold. In particular, we relate the condensate and its total mass to the amount of particles in long loops in the Feynman--Kac formula, the order parameter that Feynman suggested in Feynman (1953). For $a_N\ll N^{-2/d}$, we prove that all loops have the minimal length one, and for $a_N\gg N^{-2/d}$ we prove 100 percent condensation and identify the distribution of the long-loop lengths as the Poisson--Dirichlet distribution.
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spellingShingle Proof of off-diagonal long-range order in a mean-field trapped Bose gas via the Feynman--Kac formula
Bai, Tianyi
König, Wolfgang
Vogel, Quirin
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We consider the non-interacting Bose gas of $N$ bosons in dimension $d\geq 3$ in a trap in a mean-field setting with a vanishing factor $a_N$ in front of the kinetic energy. The choice $a_N=N^{-2/d}$ is the semi-classical setting and was analysed in great detail in a special, interacting case in Deuchert and Seiringer (2021). Using a version of the well-known Feynman--Kac representation and a further representation in terms of a Poisson point process, we derive precise asymptotics for the reduced one-particle density matrix, implying off-diagonal long-range order (ODLRO, a well-known criterion for Bose--Einstein condensation) for $a_N$ above a certain threshold and non-occurrence of ODLRO for $a_N$ below that threshold. In particular, we relate the condensate and its total mass to the amount of particles in long loops in the Feynman--Kac formula, the order parameter that Feynman suggested in Feynman (1953). For $a_N\ll N^{-2/d}$, we prove that all loops have the minimal length one, and for $a_N\gg N^{-2/d}$ we prove 100 percent condensation and identify the distribution of the long-loop lengths as the Poisson--Dirichlet distribution.
title Proof of off-diagonal long-range order in a mean-field trapped Bose gas via the Feynman--Kac formula
topic Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.02270