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The truncated Wigner method for Bose condensed gases: limits of validity and applications

Alice Sinatra·Carlos Lobo·Yvan Castin
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We study the truncated Wigner method (TWM) applied to a weakly interacting Bose condensed gas perturbed away from thermal equilibrium. The idea of the method is to generate an ensemble of classical fields which samples the Wigner function of the initial thermal density operator, and to evolve each field with the Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE). In the first part of the paper we improve the sampling technique over our previous work and we test its accuracy against the exactly solvable model of the ideal gas. In the second part of the paper we investigate the conditions of validity of the TWM. For short evolution times the time-dependent Bogoliubov approximation is valid for almost pure condensates. The requirement that the TWM reproduces the Bogoliubov prediction leads to the constraint that the number of field modes must be smaller than the number of particles.For longer times the nonlinear dynamics of the noncondensed modes plays an important role. To demonstrate this we analyse the case of a 3D spatially homogeneous Bose condensed gas and we test how well TWM reproduces Beliaev-Landau damping.We have identified the mechanism which limits the validity of the TWM: the initial classical fields, driven by the time-dependent GPE, thermalise to a classical field distribution at a temperature T_class larger than the initial temperature T. When T_class significantly exceeds T a spurious damping is observed in the simulation. This leads to the second condition for the TWM, T_class-T<<T, which requires that the maximum energy of the Bogoliubov modes does not exceed a few k_B T.

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Alice Sinatra, Carlos Lobo, Yvan Castin. 2009-03-02. The truncated Wigner method for Bose condensed gases: limits of validity and applications. https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075%2F35%2F17%2F301

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