Superfluid Bose gas in two dimensions

Abstract

We investigate Bose-Einstein condensation for ultracold bosonic atoms in two-dimensional systems. The functional renormalization group for the average action allows us to follow the effective interactions from molecular scales (microphysics) to the characteristic extension of the probe $l$ (macrophysics). In two dimensions the scale dependence of the dimensionless interaction strength $λ$ is logarithmic. Furthermore, for large $l$ the frequency dependence of the inverse propagator becomes quadratic. We find an upper bound for $λ$, and for large $λ$ substantial deviations from the Bogoliubov results for the condensate depletion, the dispersion relation and the sound velocity. The melting of the condensate above the critical temperature $T_c$ is associated to a phase transition of the Kosterlitz-Thouless type. The critical temperature in units of the density, $T_c/n$, vanishes for $l\to\infty$ logarithmically.

10 pages, 12 figures, reference added