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Prethermalization to thermalization crossover in a dilute Bose gas following an interaction ramp
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Abstract
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| The dynamics of a weakly interacting Bose gas at low temperatures is close to integrable due to the approximate quadratic nature of the many-body Hamiltonian. While the short-time physics after an abrupt ramp of the interaction constant is dominated by integrable dynamics, integrability is broken at longer times by higher-order interaction terms in the Bogoliubov Hamiltonian, in particular, by Beliaev-Landau scatterings involving three quasiparticles. The two-stage relaxation process is highlighted in the evolution of local observables such as the density-density correlation function: an integrable dephasing mechanism leads the system to a prethermal stage, followed by true thermalization conveyed by quasiparticle collisions. Our results bring the crossover from prethermalization to thermalization within reach of current experiments with ultracold atomic gases. |
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English
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Source (journal)
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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
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Publication
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2018
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Volume/pages
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98
:5
(2018)
, 7 p.
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Article Reference
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053612
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ISI
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000449514500003
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E-only publicatie
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