Conserving and gapless model of the weakly interacting Bose gas

Abstract

The dielectric formalism is used to set up an approximate description of a spatially homogeneous weakly interacting Bose gas in the collision-less regime, which is both conserving and gap-less, and has coinciding poles of the single-particle Green's function and the density autocorrelation function in the Bose-condensed regime. The approximation takes into account the direct and the exchange interaction in a consistent way. The fulfillment of the generalized Ward identities related to the conservation of particle-number and the breaking of the gauge-symmetry is demonstrated. The dynamics at long wavelengths is considered in detail below and above the phase-transition, numerically and in certain limits also in analytical approximations. The explicit form of the density autocorrelation function and the Green's function is exhibited and discussed.

26 pages revtex including 11 figures