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4. Disorder—Results and Limiting Cases<br />
4.4. Particle regime<br />
In the previous sections <strong>of</strong> this chapter, we have investigated in detail the<br />
sound-wave excitations in the low-energy regime kξ ≪ 1. The predictions <strong>of</strong><br />
the disordered <strong>Bogoliubov</strong> theory, however, hold more generally and allow<br />
the transition to the particle regime kξ ≫ 1. There, the interaction can<br />
be neglected with respect to the kinetic energy. The Hamiltonian (2.11)<br />
becomes non-interacting, and one could expect that the entire <strong>Bogoliubov</strong><br />
problem passes over to the problem <strong>of</strong> free particles in disorder [22, 23].<br />
However, in the non-interacting limit some subtleties occur because <strong>of</strong> as-<br />
sumptions made in the derivation <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Bogoliubov</strong> Hamiltonian.<br />
In this section, we firstly discuss the predictions from<br />
k = ∞<br />
section 3.4 in the particle regime kξ = 10 ≫ 1. In parameter<br />
space, the curve kξ = 10 is opposite to that <strong>of</strong><br />
section 4.3. The elastic scattering properties agree with<br />
those <strong>of</strong> free particles, but the real corrections to the spectrum<br />
turn out to differ. The leading order tends to a<br />
constant that can be absorbed in a shift <strong>of</strong> the chemical potential. In subsection<br />
4.4.3, we compute the disorder averaged dispersion relation in the<br />
Schrödinger particle limit, where the condition µ ≫ V from the <strong>Bogoliubov</strong><br />
regime is reversed. Finally, we study numerically the transition between the<br />
two regimes.<br />
4.4.1. Mean free path<br />
Already in the single scattering problem [subsection 2.4.3], we have learned<br />
that in the limit ξ → ∞, the first-order scattering element (2.45c) ap-<br />
proaches the scattering amplitude <strong>of</strong> a free particle in disorder<br />
W (1)<br />
k+q k ≈<br />
σ = 0<br />
ξ = ∞<br />
kξ = 10<br />
� Vq qξ ≫ 1 , (4.35a)<br />
−Vq qξ ≪ 1 . (4.35b)<br />
Only the forward scattering element W (1)<br />
kk = −V0 [cf. (2.58)] deviates, but<br />
can be absorbed in the chemical potential. Consequently, the imaginary<br />
part <strong>of</strong> the self-energy, which consists <strong>of</strong> the angular integral over the elastic<br />
scattering shell, passes over to the results <strong>of</strong> free particles in disorder.<br />
Equation (3.53) reduces to<br />
102<br />
1<br />
kls<br />
=<br />
� �2 V0<br />
2ɛ 0 k<br />
(kσ) d<br />
�<br />
dΩd<br />
(2π) d−1Cd<br />
σ = ∞<br />
� �<br />
θ 2kσ sin 2 , (4.36)