The Functional Integration and the Two-Point Correlation Functions of the Trapped Bose Gas

TL;DR

This paper develops a quantum field-theoretical model to analyze two-point correlation functions of a trapped Bose gas, revealing power-law decay at low temperatures influenced by spatial position.

Contribution

It introduces a novel functional integration approach to calculate correlation functions in a non-homogeneous Bose gas within an external potential.

Findings

Correlation functions exhibit power-law decay at zero temperature.

The critical exponent depends on spatial arguments.

Effective action is derived in one loop approximation.

Abstract

A quantum field-theoretical model, which describes spatially non-homogeneous repulsive Bose gas in an external harmonic potential is considered. Two-point thermal correlation functions of the Bose gas are calculated in the framework of the functional integration approach. Successive integration over the ``high-energy'' functional variables first and then over the ``low-energy'' ones is used. The effective action functional for the low-energy variables is obtained in one loop approximation. The functional integral representations for the correlation functions are estimated by means of the stationary phase approximation. A power-law asymptotical behaviour of the correlators of the one-dimensional Bose gas is demonstrated in the limit, when the temperature is going to zero, while the volume occupied by the non-homogeneous Bose gas infinitely increases. The power-law behaviour is governed by the critical exponent dependent on the spatial arguments.