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Engl, Thomas ; Urbina, Juan Diego ; Richter, Klaus

Periodic mean-field solutions and the spectra of discrete bosonic fields: Trace formula for Bose-Hubbard models

Engl, Thomas , Urbina, Juan Diego and Richter, Klaus (2015) Periodic mean-field solutions and the spectra of discrete bosonic fields: Trace formula for Bose-Hubbard models. Physical Review E (PRE) 92 (6), 062907.

Date of publication of this fulltext: 14 Dec 2015 13:05
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.33026


Abstract

We consider the many-body spectra of interacting bosonic quantum fields on a lattice in the semiclassical limit of large particle number N. We show that the many-body density of states can be expressed as a coherent sum over oscillating long-wavelength contributions given by periodic, nonperturbative solutions of the, typically nonlinear, wave equation of the classical (mean-field) limit. To this ...

We consider the many-body spectra of interacting bosonic quantum fields on a lattice in the semiclassical limit of large particle number N. We show that the many-body density of states can be expressed as a coherent sum over oscillating long-wavelength contributions given by periodic, nonperturbative solutions of the, typically nonlinear, wave equation of the classical (mean-field) limit. To this end, we construct the semiclassical approximation for both the smooth and oscillatory parts of the many-body density of states in terms of a trace formula starting from the exact path integral form of the propagator between many-body quadrature states. We therefore avoid the use of a complexified classical limit characteristic of the coherent state representation. While quantum effects such as vacuum fluctuations and gauge invariance are exactly accounted for, our semiclassical approach captures quantum interference and therefore is valid well beyond the Ehrenfest time where naive quantum-classical correspondence breaks down. Remarkably, due to a special feature of harmonic systems with incommensurable frequencies, our formulas are generically valid also in the free-field case of noninteracting bosons.



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Item typeArticle
Journal or Publication TitlePhysical Review E (PRE)
Publisher:AMER PHYSICAL SOC
Open Access Type:Due to SHERPA/RoMEO
Place of Publication:COLLEGE PK
Volume:92
Number of Issue or Book Chapter:6
Page Range:062907
Date8 December 2015
InstitutionsPhysics > Institute of Theroretical Physics > Chair Professor Richter > Group Klaus Richter
Identification Number
ValueType
10.1103/PhysRevE.92.062907DOI
1509.02309arXiv ID
Classification
NotationType
05.45.MtPACS
03.65.SqPACS
03.65.AaPACS
KeywordsPOTENTIALS; EXPANSION; STATES; ATOM;
Dewey Decimal Classification500 Science > 530 Physics
StatusPublished
RefereedYes, this version has been refereed
Created at the University of RegensburgYes
URN of the UB Regensburgurn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-330261
Item ID33026

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