Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2014 iii Paper 81 2 b Solution Created 2026-10-03 Updated 2026-10-07
Put and , and assume the homogeneous condensate is stable, so for nonzero modes. A real Bogoliubov transformation isThe canonical condition preserves the bosonic canonical commutation relations. Cancellation of pair terms requires . ThereforeThe sign of follows that of . Normal ordering the transformed operators gives the bosonic Bogoliubov zero-point shift:Rearranging the last two terms is exactly the requested form. Each momentum appears in the sums, so opposite-momentum pairs are not counted again separately.
The Bogoliubov quasiparticle dispersion is linear at low momentum when :It is a gapless phonon of the condensate, unlike the free-particle quadratic spectrum. For a contact repulsion , the healing length controls crossover to the particle regime . A momentum-dependent potential can modify the higher-energy curve; the sketch uses the contact case and does not assume every interaction has that entire shape.
