The Ground State Energy of a Two-Dimensional Bose Gas.

ABSTRACT

We prove the following formula for the ground state energy density of a dilute Bose gas with density ρ in 2 dimensions in the thermodynamic limit e 2D ( ρ ) = 4 π ρ 2 Y ( 1 - Y | log Y | + ( 2 Γ + 1 2 + log ( π ) ) Y ) + o ( ρ 2 Y 2 ) , as ρ a 2 → 0 . Here Y = | log ( ρ a 2 ) | - 1 and a is the scattering length of the two-body potential. This result in 2 dimensions corresponds to the famous Lee-Huang-Yang formula in 3 dimensions. The proof is valid for essentially all positive potentials with finite scattering length, in particular, it covers the crucial case of the hard core potential.