paper

Superfluidity in Dilute Trapped Bose Gases

arXiv:cond-mat/0205570 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.66.134529

Abstract

A commonly used theoretical definition of superfluidity in the ground state of a Bose gas is based on the response of the system to an imposed velocity field or, equivalently, to twisted boundary conditions in a box. We are able to carry out this program in the case of a dilute interacting Bose gas in a trap. We prove that a gas with repulsive interactions is 100% superfluid in the dilute limit in which the Gross-Pitaevskii equation is exact. This is the first example in an experimentally realistic continuum model in which superfluidity is rigorously verified.

Revised version; RevTeX4, 6 pages

References in corpus (1)

Cited by in corpus (34)