Motion of a heavy impurity through a Bose-Einstein condensate

G. E. Astrakharchik and L. P. Pitaevskii
Phys. Rev. A 70, 013608 – Published 20 July 2004

Abstract

We study the motion of a pointlike impurity in a Bose-Einstein condensate at T=0. By solving the Gross-Pitaevskii (GP) equation in a perturbative manner we calculate the induced mass of the impurity and the drag force on the impurity in three-, two-, and one-dimensional (1D) cases. The relationship between the induced mass and the normal mass of fluid is found, and coincides with the result of the Bogoliubov theory. The drag force appears for the supersonic motion of the impurity. In 1D the drag force is investigated also on the basis of the exact Lieb-Liniger theory, using the dynamic form factor, which has been evaluated by the Haldane method of the calculation of correlation functions. In this theory the force appears for an arbitrarily small velocity of the impurity. The possibility of measuring the form factor in existing experiments is noted.

  • Received 29 March 2004
  • Corrected 26 August 2004

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.70.013608

©2004 American Physical Society

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26 August 2004

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Authors & Affiliations

G. E. Astrakharchik1,2 and L. P. Pitaevskii1,3

  • 1Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento and Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, I-38050 Povo, Trento, Italy
  • 2Institute of Spectroscopy, 142190 Troitsk, Moscow Region, Russia
  • 3Kapitza Institute for Physical Problems, 119334 Moscow, Russia

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Vol. 70, Iss. 1 — July 2004

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