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Phys. Rev. A 57, 4695–4698 (1998)

Two-fluid hydrodynamics for a trapped weakly interacting Bose gas

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E. Zaremba
Department of Physics, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7L 3N6

A. Griffin and T. Nikuni
Department of Physics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1A7

Received 14 May 1997; published in the issue dated June 1998

We derive coupled equations of motion for the condensate (superfluid) and noncondensate (normal fluid) degrees of freedom in a trapped Bose gas at finite temperatures. Our results are based on the Hartree-Fock-Popov approximation for the time-dependent condensate wave function, and thermodynamic local equilibrium for the noncondensate atoms. In the special case of a uniform weakly interacting gas, our hydrodynamic equations are shown to be consistent with the two-fluid equations of Landau. The collective modes in a parabolically trapped Bose gas include the analog of the out-of-phase second-sound mode in superfluid 4He.

© 1998 The American Physical Society

URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.57.4695
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevA.57.4695
PACS:
03.75.Fi, 05.30.Jp, 67.40.Bz