Collective Excitations of a Two-Component Bose Condensate at Finite Temperature

ORAL

Abstract

We compare the collective modes for Bose-condensed systems with two degenerate components with and without intercomponent coherence at finite temperature using the time-dependent Hartree-Fock approximation. We show that the interaction between the condensate and non-condensate in these two cases results in qualitatively different collective excitation spectra. We show that at zero temperature the single-particle excitations of the incoherent Bose condensate can be probed by intercomponent excitations.

Authors

  • Chang-hua Zhang

    Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

  • H.A. Fertig

    Indiana University, Bloomington, IN and Technion, Haifa, Israel, Indiana University and Technion, Israel, U. Indiana, Indiana University, Indiana University and Technion