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Bose-Einstein condensation at constant temperature

Soft Condensed Matter 2009-11-10 v1

Abstract

We present a novel experimental approach to Bose-Einstein condensation by increasing the particle number of the system at almost constant temperature. In particular the emergence of a new condensate is observed in multi-component F=1 spinor condensates of 87-Rb. Furthermore we develop a simple rate-equation model for multi-component BEC thermodynamics at finite temperature which well reproduces the measured effects.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0402003,
  title  = {Bose-Einstein condensation at constant temperature},
  author = {M. Erhard and H. Schmaljohann and J. Kronjäger and K. Bongs and K. Sengstock},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0402003},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, 3 figures, RevTeX