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3. Disorder<br />
The poles <strong>of</strong> the averaged Green function (3.44) define the complex dispersion<br />
relation<br />
�ω = ɛk + Σ B (k, �ω). (3.46)<br />
In the Born approximation, the self-energy is <strong>of</strong> order V 2<br />
0 /µ 2 , and its energy<br />
argument �ω can be consistently replaced with its on-shell value ɛk. In<br />
the following, we separate the self-energy into the real and the imaginary<br />
correction <strong>of</strong> the dispersion relation<br />
�ωk = ɛk + Σ B (k, ɛk) = ɛk<br />
3.4.2. Mean free path<br />
�<br />
1 +<br />
2 V0 µ 2 Λ(k) − i γk<br />
2ɛk<br />
�<br />
. (3.47)<br />
According to the reasoning in section 3.2 the <strong>Bogoliubov</strong> modes are expressed<br />
in a basis that is characterized by the momentum k and is not the<br />
eigenbasis <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Bogoliubov</strong> Hamiltonian. Thus, k is “not a good quantum<br />
number” and the <strong>Bogoliubov</strong> modes suffer scattering, which is reflected in<br />
a finite lifetime and the broadening <strong>of</strong> their dispersion relation.<br />
Scattering rate and mean free path<br />
A <strong>Bogoliubov</strong> excitation, which evolves like e −iɛkt/� in the unperturbed case,<br />
evolves in the disordered case like e −i(ɛk+ReΣ)t/� e −|ImΣ|t/� . That means, its<br />
intensity gets damped by elastic scattering events to other modes. The<br />
imaginary part <strong>of</strong> the self-energy defines the inverse lifetime or scattering<br />
rate<br />
�γk = −2ImΣ B (k, ɛk). (3.48)<br />
In equation (3.39), the only possibility for an imaginary part to occur<br />
is the imaginary part <strong>of</strong> the Green function Im(ɛk − ɛk+q + i0) −1 =<br />
−πδ(ɛk − ɛk+q). This restricts the integral to the energy shell. Physically,<br />
this is not surprising. Because <strong>of</strong> energy conservation, a <strong>Bogoliubov</strong> quasiparticle<br />
can only be scattered to modes with the same energy. Other modes<br />
can only be virtually excited, but the quasiparticle has to come back. Such<br />
virtual scattering events will enter the real part <strong>of</strong> the self-energy, see subsection<br />
3.4.5 below.<br />
On the energy shell, the scattering element simplifies, section 2.4. Thus<br />
the scattering rate is given as the d-dimensional angular integral<br />
�γk =<br />
74<br />
2 V0 2µ 2(kσ)d<br />
�<br />
kξ<br />
�<br />
2 + (kξ) 2 (1 + (kξ) 2 )<br />
dΩd<br />
(2π) d−1Cd<br />
� � 2<br />
2kσ sin θ/2 A (kξ, θ) .<br />
(3.49)