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4. Disorder—Results and Limiting Cases<br />

represented by the lower right corner in figure 4.1, and coincides with the<br />

limit kσ = 0 in the previous section “Hydrodynamic limit I: ξ = 0”. At this<br />

point, the correction is negative and proportional to 1/d, which is typical<br />

for the angular integral over the p-wave scattering intensity cos 2 θ. Starting<br />

from this point σ ≫ ξ, we decrease the disorder correlation length σ. The<br />

correction is described by (4.27), which reveals two facts: (a) The smoothing<br />

factor [1 + q 2 ξ 2 /2] −1 weakens the effect <strong>of</strong> disorder. (b) There is also a<br />

positive correction (Mainly due to W (2) and beyond Thomas-Fermi effects),<br />

which does not diminish with d. In one dimension, the factor −1/d is<br />

strong enough to keep the correction <strong>of</strong> the speed <strong>of</strong> sound negative. In<br />

three dimensions, however, the positive part takes over for σ/ξ � 0.75.<br />

4.3. Numerical study <strong>of</strong> the speed <strong>of</strong> sound<br />

In the previous two sections, we have worked out the lowenergy<br />

behavior <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Bogoliubov</strong> excitations in the limits<br />

ξ = 0 and k = 0, which reproduce nicely the results <strong>of</strong> the<br />

full theory in the respective regimes. In this section, we<br />

confront the previous results with a direct numerical inte-<br />

σ = ξ<br />

gration <strong>of</strong> the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation<br />

(2.16). The numerical procedure is similar to the simulation <strong>of</strong> the single<br />

scattering process in subsection 2.4.4. Essentially, the impurity is replaced<br />

by a disorder potential extending over the whole system and the setup is<br />

reduced from two dimensions to one dimension. Again, the simulation relies<br />

neither on the linearization in the excitations, nor on perturbation theory<br />

in the disorder potential. Thus, it is possible to go beyond leading-order<br />

perturbation theory for weak disorder. Also, we investigate the statistical<br />

distribution <strong>of</strong> the disorder average and the self-averaging properties <strong>of</strong> the<br />

speed <strong>of</strong> sound. As expected, the predictions from the Born approximation<br />

are confirmed very well for sufficiently weak disorder.<br />

In the numerical integration <strong>of</strong> the original Gross-Pitaevskii equation<br />

(2.16) it is impossible to perform the strict limit k = 0 or ξ = 0 as it<br />

was done in the previous sections. Instead, the parameter kξ is fixed at a<br />

small but finite value. Then the ratio σ/ξ is varied, which allows reaching<br />

both regimes ξ ≪ σ, λ from section 4.1 and λ ≫ σ, ξ from section 4.2.<br />

4.3.1. The numerical scheme<br />

σ = 0<br />

kξ = 0.05<br />

The integration is done in a one-dimensional system <strong>of</strong> length L with periodic<br />

boundary conditions. The discretization ∆x is chosen smaller than<br />

96<br />

σ = ∞

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