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Bose-Einstein condensation and Casimir effect for ideal Bose Gas confined between two slabs

Statistical Mechanics 2009-11-19 v2

Abstract

We study the Casimir effect for a 3-d system of ideal Bose gas in a slab geometry with Dirichlet boundary condition. We calculate the temperature(TT) dependence of the Casimir force below and above the Bose-Einstein condensation temperature(TcT_c). At TTcT\le T_c the Casimir force vanishes as [TTc]3/2[\frac{T}{T_c}]^{3/2}. For TTcT\gtrsim T_c it weakly depends on temperature. For TTcT\gg T_c it vanishes exponentially. At finite temperatures this force for thermalized photons in between two plates has a classical expression which is independent of \hbar. At finite temperatures the Casimir force for our system depends on \hbar.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0702215,
  title  = {Bose-Einstein condensation and Casimir effect for ideal Bose Gas confined between two slabs},
  author = {Shyamal Biswas},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0702215},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages,1 figure