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5. Conclusions and Outlook (Part I)<br />

The mean free path is found to be sufficiently long, such that it makes<br />

sense to define a renormalized speed <strong>of</strong> sound. In three-dimensional uncorrelated<br />

disorder, the positive correction <strong>of</strong> the speed <strong>of</strong> sound predicted<br />

by Giorgini et al. [78] is recovered. Beyond that, the disorder-averaged<br />

speed <strong>of</strong> sound is computed for arbitrary correlation length and for arbitrary<br />

dimension. Interestingly, the positive correction for three-dimensional<br />

uncorrelated disorder changes its sign when going to correlated disorder or<br />

to one dimension.<br />

Non-condensed fraction<br />

The non-condensed fraction due to disorder (subsection 2.5.6 and subsection<br />

4.3.3) goes beyond the condensate depletion calculated by Huang and<br />

Meng [77] and by Giorgini et al. [78]. There are two small parameters: the<br />

weak-disorder parameter V0/µ and the gas parameter � na3 s. The deformation<br />

<strong>of</strong> the Gross-Pitaevskii ground state scales with V0/µ. This is the<br />

condensate depletion <strong>of</strong> [77, 78]. In this work, the <strong>Bogoliubov</strong> excitations are<br />

measured from the deformed Gross-Pitaevskii ground state. Consequently,<br />

the deformation <strong>of</strong> the ground state does not appear as a condensate depletion.<br />

The non-condensed fraction (2.85) is <strong>of</strong> the order � na3 s, and its shift<br />

due to disorder is <strong>of</strong> the order � na3 s V 2<br />

0 /µ 2 (subsection 4.3.3).<br />

The non-condensed fraction (2.85) has been computed numerically in a<br />

finite one-dimensional system, in order to verify that the validity <strong>of</strong> Gross-<br />

Pitaevskii theory is not destroyed by disorder.<br />

5.2. Experimental proposals<br />

From the studies presented in this work, the following proposals for experiments<br />

can be made.<br />

Elastic single scattering<br />

The first proposal follows the single scattering process discussed in section<br />

2.4. The experimental procedure should essentially follow the numerical<br />

scheme. As pointed out in subsection 2.4.1, the setup should be twodimensional.<br />

Apart from setups with a two-dimensional condensate in a<br />

magnetic trap with a superimposed optical lattice like in [5], the 2D experiment<br />

at MIT [42] with a sodium condensate in an optical trap consisting<br />

<strong>of</strong> a laser light sheet seems to be a particularly suitable starting point. An<br />

additional laser focused perpendicularly through the trap serves as impurity<br />

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