A path-integral analysis of interacting Bose gases and loop gases

Abstract

We review some recent results on interacting Bose gases in thermal equilibrium. In particular, we study the convergence of the grand-canonical equilibrium states of such gases to their mean-field limits, which are given by the Gibbs measures of classical field theories with quartic Hartree-type self-interaction, and to the Gibbs states of classical gases of point particles. We discuss various open problems and conjectures concerning, e.g., Bose-Einstein condensation, polymers and $|\mathbf{\varphi }{|}^4$-theory.

21 pages, no figures, contribution to special volume of J. Stat. Phys. dedicated to Joel L. Lebowitz