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2.3. <strong>Bogoliubov</strong> <strong>Excitations</strong><br />

At high energies, the coefficient ak tends to one and the components<br />

<strong>of</strong> the wave parallel and perpendicular to the order parameter are equal.<br />

Then, the <strong>Bogoliubov</strong> wave resembles the plane wave <strong>of</strong> a free particle δΨ ∝<br />

exp � i(k0 · r − ɛk0 t/�)� (inset in figure 2.3).<br />

At low energies, the spectrum (2.35) changes from quadratic to linear, but<br />

it is still gapless: at low momenta, excitations with arbitrarily low energy<br />

exist. The coefficient ak tends to zero, which means, that the <strong>Bogoliubov</strong><br />

excitation γk has hardly any signature in the density, but all the more in<br />

the phase [see inset in figure 2.3]. In the limit k → 0, the <strong>Bogoliubov</strong><br />

excitations pass over to a homogeneous shift <strong>of</strong> the condensate phase. This<br />

connects the <strong>Bogoliubov</strong> excitations to the broken U(1) symmetry <strong>of</strong> <strong>Bose</strong>-<br />

<strong>Einstein</strong> condensate. The <strong>Bogoliubov</strong> excitations are the Goldstone modes<br />

[72] associated to this broken symmetry.<br />

2.3.2. The inhomogeneous <strong>Bogoliubov</strong> problem<br />

Let us come back to the Hamiltonian (2.29) and include the external potential<br />

V (r) and its imprint <strong>of</strong> the external potential in the condensate density<br />

n0(r). This inhomogeneity breaks translation invariance, which allowed the<br />

diagonalization by the <strong>Bogoliubov</strong> transformation (2.33) in the free problem,<br />

with two consequences: Firstly, there will be scattering among the Bogoli-<br />

ubov modes, and secondly, the anomalous terms ˆγ †<br />

kˆγ† −k ′ and their Hermitian<br />

conjugates do not vanish, which leads to anomalous coupling.<br />

As the Hamiltonian (2.29) is quadratic in the fluctuations without any<br />

term mixing δˆn and δ ˆϕ, the general structure <strong>of</strong> the disorder part F (V ) =<br />

F − F (0) is<br />

ˆF (V ) [δˆn, δ ˆϕ] = 1<br />

2L d<br />

2<br />

�<br />

�<br />

n∞δ ˆϕ †<br />

k ′S ′<br />

k kδ ˆϕk + δˆn†<br />

k,k ′<br />

k ′R k ′ kδˆnk<br />

4n∞<br />

�<br />

. (2.38)<br />

The density and phase coupling matrices S and R vanish in absence <strong>of</strong><br />

disorder. Comparing with (2.29), we find that both the phase couplingelement<br />

and the density coupling element are related to the imprint <strong>of</strong> the<br />

external potential in the condensate wave-function � n0(r) = Φ(r).<br />

Non-perturbative couplings<br />

The phase coupling is proportional to the condensate density n0(r) = Φ(r) 2<br />

and can be written as<br />

� �2 m k′ ·k Φ ′<br />

k −qΦq−k. (2.39)<br />

S ′<br />

k k = 1<br />

L d<br />

2<br />

q<br />

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