Condensation temperature of interacting Bose gases with and without disorder

TL;DR

This paper employs the momentum-shell renormalization group to analyze how interactions and disorder affect the condensation temperature of Bose gases, providing new insights into critical behavior without relying on dimensional reduction.

Contribution

It introduces a novel RG approach that independently determines interaction effects on Bose gas condensation with and without disorder, including the impact of delta-correlated disorder.

Findings

Interaction shifts in critical temperature and chemical potential are calculated up to second order.

The RG flow equations reduce to classical Landau-Ginzburg model equations in high-temperature limit.

Disorder influences the condensation temperature through a random fixed point.

Abstract

The momentum-shell renormalization group (RG) is used to study the condensation of interacting Bose gases without and with disorder. First of all, for the homogeneous disorder-free Bose gas the interaction-induced shifts in the critical temperature and chemical potential are determined up to second order in the scattering length. The approach does not make use of dimensional reduction and is thus independent of previous derivations. Secondly, the RG is used together with the replica method to study the interacting Bose gas with delta-correlated disorder. The flow equations are derived and found to reduce, in the high-temperature limit, to the RG equations of the classical Landau-Ginzburg model with random-exchange defects. The random fixed point is used to calculate the condensation temperature under the combined influence of particle interactions and disorder.