A note on spontaneous symmetry breaking in the mean-field Bose gas

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Main Authors: Deuchert, Andreas, Nam, Phan Thanh, Napiorkowski, Marcin
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author Deuchert, Andreas
Nam, Phan Thanh
Napiorkowski, Marcin
author_facet Deuchert, Andreas
Nam, Phan Thanh
Napiorkowski, Marcin
contents We consider the homogeneous Bose gas in the three-dimensional unit torus, where $N$ particles interact via a two-body potential of the form $N^{-1} v(x)$. The system is studied at inverse temperatures of order $N^{-2/3}$, which corresponds to the temperature scale of the Bose--Einstein condensation phase transition. We show that spontaneous $U(1)$ symmetry breaking occurs if and only if the system exhibits Bose--Einstein condensation in the sense that the one-particle density matrix of the Gibbs state has a macroscopic eigenvalue.
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spellingShingle A note on spontaneous symmetry breaking in the mean-field Bose gas
Deuchert, Andreas
Nam, Phan Thanh
Napiorkowski, Marcin
Mathematical Physics
Analysis of PDEs
Quantum Physics
We consider the homogeneous Bose gas in the three-dimensional unit torus, where $N$ particles interact via a two-body potential of the form $N^{-1} v(x)$. The system is studied at inverse temperatures of order $N^{-2/3}$, which corresponds to the temperature scale of the Bose--Einstein condensation phase transition. We show that spontaneous $U(1)$ symmetry breaking occurs if and only if the system exhibits Bose--Einstein condensation in the sense that the one-particle density matrix of the Gibbs state has a macroscopic eigenvalue.
title A note on spontaneous symmetry breaking in the mean-field Bose gas
topic Mathematical Physics
Analysis of PDEs
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.19402