Inelastic multiple scattering of interacting bosons in weak random potentials

Phys Rev Lett. 2012 Jul 20;109(3):030601. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.030601. Epub 2012 Jul 17.

Abstract

We develop a diagrammatic scattering theory for interacting bosons in a three-dimensional, weakly disordered potential. We show how collisional energy transfer between the bosons induces the thermalization of the inelastic single-particle current which, after only a few collision events, dominates over the elastic contribution described by the Gross-Pitaevskii ansatz.