Bose Condensation and Temperature
Statistical Mechanics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
A quantitative analysis of the process of condensation of bosons both in harmonic traps and in gases is made resorting to two ingredients only: Bose classical distribution and spectral discretness. It is shown that in order to take properly into account statistical correlations, temperature must be defined from first principles, based on Shannon entropy, and turns out to be equal to only for where the usual results are recovered. Below a new critical temperature is found, where the specific heat exhibits a sharp spike, similar to the -peak of superfluidity.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0103555,
title = {Bose Condensation and Temperature},
author = {Enrico Celeghini and Mario Rasetti},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0103555},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 5 figures