Quantum criticality of the imperfect Bose gas in d dimensions

Abstract

We study the low-temperature limit of the d-dimensional imperfect Bose gas. Relying on an exact analysis of the microscopic model, we establish the existence of a second-order quantum phase transition to a phase involving the Bose-Einstein condensate. The transition is triggered by varying the chemical potential and persists at non-zero temperatures T for d>2. We extract the exact phase diagram and identify the scaling regimes in the vicinity of the quantum critical point focusing on the behavior of the correlation length \xi. The length \xi develops an essential singularity exclusively for d=2. We follow the evolution of the phase diagram varying d. For d>2 our results agree with renormalization-group based analysis of the effective bosonic order-parameter models with the dynamical exponent z=2.