Nonequilibrium States of a Quenched Bose Gas

Abstract

Yin and Radzihovsky [1] recently developed a self-consistent extension of a Bogoliubov theory, in which the condensate number density $n_c$ is treated as a mean field that changes with time, in order to analyze a JILA experiment by Makotyn et al. [2] on a $^{85}$Rb Bose gas following a deep quench to a large scattering length. We apply this theory to construct a closed set of equations that highlight the role of $\dot{n}_c$, which is to induce an effective interaction between quasiparticles. We show analytically that such a system supports a steady state characterized by a constant condensate density and a steady but periodically changing momentum distribution, whose time average is described exactly by the generalized Gibbs ensemble. We discuss how the $\dot{n}_{c}$-induced effective interaction, which cannot be ignored on the grounds of the adiabatic approximation for modes near the gapless Goldstone mode, can significantly affect condensate populations and Tan's contact for a Bose gas that has undergone a deep quench.