Phys. Rev. A 57, 4695–4698 (1998)Two-fluid hydrodynamics for a trapped weakly interacting Bose gasReceived 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
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