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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)

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