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0.02<br />

0.015<br />

0.01<br />

0.005<br />

MSg<br />

0.01 0.1 1 10 100<br />

(a) V0/µ = 0.05<br />

Γ<br />

Φ0<br />

0.002<br />

0.001<br />

�0.001<br />

MSg<br />

4.4. Particle regime<br />

0.1 1 10 100<br />

(b) Γ/ √ n∞ = 100<br />

Figure 4.14.: Correction <strong>of</strong> the dispersion relation in the transition from the <strong>Bogoliubov</strong><br />

regime to free-particle plane waves. Red dotted line: <strong>Bogoliubov</strong> limit (4.40), cf. figure<br />

4.12; dashed line: Schrödinger limit (4.44), cf. figure 4.13; dots: results from the<br />

Gross-Pitaevskii integration. (a) Disorder correction at V0/µ = 0.05 as function <strong>of</strong> the<br />

wave amplitude Γ/Φ0; (b) Disorder correction at Γ/ √ n∞ = 100 as function <strong>of</strong> the ratio<br />

V0/µ <strong>of</strong> disorder strength and chemical potential. For explanations, see main text.<br />

Parameters: kξ = 10 and kσ = 0.5<br />

We establish the connection between the <strong>Bogoliubov</strong> regime and the<br />

Schrödinger regime by means <strong>of</strong> a Gross-Pitaevskii integration and observe<br />

the disorder averaged propagation speed.<br />

We proceed in two steps. Firstly, we increase the wave amplitude Γ with<br />

respect to the ground-state wave function Φ. We start with a plane wave<br />

with small amplitude on top <strong>of</strong> the extended Gross-Pitaevskii ground state<br />

and end at the opposite case <strong>of</strong> the whole condensate propagating as a plane<br />

wave in presence <strong>of</strong> a small fraction at rest. This transition is to be understood<br />

essentially as a formal transition. Physically, it is somewhat pathological,<br />

because the macroscopically populated traveling wave is a highly excited<br />

state and the Gross-Pitaevskii ansatz is questionable. However, interpreted<br />

as a single Schrödinger particle in a disordered environment, the problem<br />

is well defined [22, 23]. Results are shown in figure 4.14(a). As expected,<br />

they initially agree with the <strong>Bogoliubov</strong> prediction (4.40) and approach the<br />

Schrödinger prediction (4.44) for Γ ≫ Φ0. The Schrödinger prediction is not<br />

met exactly, which is plausible because the chemical potential is still larger<br />

than the disorder potential.<br />

In the Schrödinger regime, the chemical potential should be the lowest <strong>of</strong><br />

all energy scales. Thus, in a second step, we increase the disorder strength V0<br />

beyond the chemical potential and the agreement gets better, figure 4.14(b).<br />

For very high values <strong>of</strong> V0, the validity condition V0 ≪ ɛ 0 k = µk2 ξ 2 for the<br />

Born approximation in (4.43) is violated and the agreement gets worse again.<br />

V0<br />

µ<br />

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