arXiv · cond-mat/9812320
Two-fluid dynamics for a Bose-Einstein condensate out of local equilibrium with the non-condensate
Abstract
We extend our recent work on the two-fluid hydrodynamics of a Bose-condensed gas by including collisions involving both condensate and non-condensate atoms. These collisions are essential for establishing a state of local thermodynamic equilibrium between the condensate and non-condensate. Our theory is more general than the usual Landau two-fluid theory, to which it reduces in the appropriate limit, in that it allows one to describe situations in which a state of complete local equilibrium between the two components has not been reached. The exchange of atoms between the condensate and non-condensate is associated with a new relaxational mode of the gas.
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T. Nikuni, E. Zaremba, A. Griffin. 1999-04-20. Two-fluid dynamics for a Bose-Einstein condensate out of local equilibrium with the non-condensate. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.83.10
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