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4. Disorder—Results and Limiting Cases<br />

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0.5 1 1.5 2<br />

kξ = 0.05<br />

10 20 30 40<br />

σ/ξ<br />

Figure 4.2.: Relative correction <strong>of</strong> the speed <strong>of</strong> sound ΛN = ∆c µ 2 /(c V 2<br />

0 ) for 1D speckle<br />

disorder. Full formula (3.60) for kξ = 0.05 (black line). Limiting formulae ΛN(kσ)|ξ=0<br />

[section 4.1, (4.15)] (dotted blue) and ΛN(σ/ξ)|k=0 [section 4.2, (4.31)] (dashed green).<br />

Numerical results <strong>of</strong> a Gross-Pitaevskii integration, as discussed in section 4.3, are shown<br />

for V0/µ = +0.03 (blue straight marks) and V0/µ = −0.03 (red triangular marks).<br />

fixes the value <strong>of</strong> the lightness, leaving the two-dimensional space <strong>of</strong> hue and<br />

saturation, as shown in Fig. 4.1.<br />

Limiting cases, where one <strong>of</strong> the length scales is zero or infinity, i.e. much<br />

shorter or much longer than the other length scales, are found on the edges.<br />

We focus mainly on the low-energy excitations kξ ≪ 1. Only in the last<br />

section, section 4.4, we consider the transition to particle-like excitations<br />

kξ ≫ 1.<br />

Low-energy excitations<br />

We are interested in the low-energy features, i.e. the<br />

sound-wave regime kξ ≪ 1. For practical purposes, we<br />

choose a small but finite value kξ = 0.05. In the parameter<br />

space, the curve defined by kξ = 0.05 appears as a<br />

smooth curve close to the ξ = 0 edge and the k = 0 edge,<br />

k = 0<br />

as shown in the illustration on the right. Let us consider<br />

the speed <strong>of</strong> sound, which is a significant physical quantity. In figure 4.2,<br />

the correction (3.60) <strong>of</strong> the speed <strong>of</strong> sound due to a one-dimensional speckle<br />

disorder potential is shown. The curve is rather complicated with three<br />

different regimes: a linear increase at very short correlation lengths, a nonmonotonic<br />

intermediate range and saturation at long correlation lengths. In<br />

82<br />

σ = 0<br />

kξ = 0.05<br />

ξ = 0<br />

σ = ∞

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