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Bose-Einstein condensation and gauge symmetry breaking

✍ Scribed by V.I. Yukalov

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Weight
188 KB
Volume
4
Category
Article
ISSN
1612-2011

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✦ Synopsis

The fundamental problem is analyzed, the relation between Bose-Einstein condensation and spontaneous gauge symmetry breaking. This relation is largerly misunderstood in physics community. Numerous articles and books contain the statement that, though gauge symmetry breaking helps for describing Bose-Einstein condensation, but the latter, in principle, does not require any symmetry breaking. This, however, is not correct. The analysis is based on the known mathematical theorems. But in order not to overcomplicate the presentation and to make it accessible to all readers, technical details are often omitted here. The emphasis is made on the following basic general facts: Spontaneous breaking of gauge symmetry is the necessary and sufficient condition for Bose-Einstein condensation. Condensate fluctuations, in thermodynamic limit, are negligible. Their catastrophic behavior can arise only as a result of incorrect calculations, when a Bose-condensed system is described without gauge symmetry breaking. It is crucially important to employ the representative statistical ensembles equipped with all conditions that are necessary for a unique and mathematically correct description of the given statistical system. Only then one is able to develop a self-consistent theory, free of paradoxes.

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