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BEC and dimensional crossover in a boson gas within multi-slabs

Quantum Gases 2015-06-16 v1

Abstract

For an ideal Bose-gas within a multi-slabs periodic structure, we report a dimensional crossover and discuss whether a BEC transition at Tc0T_c \neq 0 disappears or not. The multi-slabs structure is generated via a Kronig-Penney potential perpendicular to the slabs of width aa and separated by a distance bb. The ability of the particles to jump between adjacent slabs is determined by the hight V0V_0 and width bb of the potential barrier. Contrary to what happens in the boson gas inside a zero-width multilayers case, where the critical temperature diminishes and goes up again as a function of the wall separation, here the TcT_c decreases continuously as the potential barrier height and the cell size a+ba+b increase. We plot the surface Tc=106T_c = 10^{-6} showing two prominent regions in the parameters space, which suggest a phase transition BEC-NOBEC at T0T \neq 0. %The position of the phase transition surface is almost independent of the ratio r=b/ar=b/a while the cell size a+ba+b is almost proportional to the square root of the height of the potential barriers. The specific heat shows a crossover from 3D to 2D when the height of the potential or the barrier width increase, in addition to the well known peak related to the Bose-Einstein condensation.

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@article{arxiv.1307.2636,
  title  = {BEC and dimensional crossover in a boson gas within multi-slabs},
  author = {O. A. Rodríguez and M. A. Solís},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.2636},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

Five pages with four figures

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