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Anomalous particle-number fluctuations in a three-dimensional interacting Bose-Einstein condensate

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-11-10 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

The particle-number fluctuations originated from collective excitations are investigated for a three-dimensional, repulsively interacting Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) confined in a harmonic trap. The contribution due to the quantum depletion of the condensate is calculated and the explicit expression of the coefficient in the formulas denoting the particle-number fluctuations is given. The results show that the particle-number fluctuations of the condensate follow the law <δN02>N22/15<\delta N_0^2> \sim N^{22/15} and the fluctuations vanish when temperature approaches to the BEC critical temperature.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0401112,
  title  = {Anomalous particle-number fluctuations in a three-dimensional interacting Bose-Einstein condensate},
  author = {Shujuan Liu and Hongwei Xiong and Guoxiang Huang and Zhijun Xu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0401112},
  year   = {2009}
}

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