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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)

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