Bosonic Particle-Correlated States: A Nonperturbative Treatment Beyond Mean Field

Abstract

Many useful properties of dilute Bose gases at ultra-low temperature are predicted precisely by the (mean-field) product-state Ansatz, in which all particles are in the same quantum state. Yet, in situations where particle-particle correlations become important, the product Ansatz fails. To include correlations nonperturbatively, we consider a new set of states: the particle-correlated state of $N=l\times n$ bosons is derived by symmetrizing the $n$-fold product of an $l$-particle quantum state. The particle-correlated states can be simulated efficiently for large $N$, because their parameter spaces, which depend on $l$, do not grow with $n$. Here we formulate and develop in great detail the pure-state case for $l=2$, where the many-body state is constructed from a two-particle pure state. These paired wave functions, which we call pair-correlated states (PCS), were introduced by A. J. Leggett [Rev. Mod. Phys. $73$, 307 (2001)] as a particle-number-conserving version of the Bogoliubov approximation. We present an iterative algorithm that solves for the reduced (marginal) density matrices (RDMs), i.e., the correlation functions, associated with PCS in time $O(N)$. The RDMs can also be derived from the normalization factor of PCS, which is derived analytically in the large-$N$ limit. To test the efficacy of PCS, we analyze the ground state of the two-site Bose-Hubbard model by minimizing the energy of the PCS~state, both in its exact form and in its large-$N$ approximate form, and comparing with the exact ground state. For $N=1000$, the relative errors of the ground-state energy for both cases are within $10^{-5}$ over the entire parameter region from a single condensate to a Mott insulator. We present numerical results that suggest that PCS might be useful for describing the dynamics in the strongly interacting regime.

arXiv comment41 pages, 8 figures

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