Bose-Einstein condensation in relativistic plasma
Plasma Physics
2020-02-04 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
The phenomenon of Bose-Einstein condensation is traditionally associated with and experimentally verified for low temperatures: either of nano-Kelvin scale for alkali atoms [1-3] or room temperatures for quasi-particles [4,5] or photons in two dimensions [6]. Here we demonstrate out of first principles that for certain initial conditions non-equilibrium plasma at relativistic temperatures of billions of Kelvin undergoes condensation, predicted by Zeldovich and Levich in their seminal work [7]. We determine the necessary conditions for the onset of condensation and discuss the possibilities to observe such a phenomenon in laboratory and astrophysical conditions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1908.04402,
title = {Bose-Einstein condensation in relativistic plasma},
author = {M. A. Prakapenia and G. V. Vereshchagin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.04402},
year = {2020}
}