Bose-Einstein condensation of atomic gases in a general harmonic oscillator
Condensed Matter
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
We present an analysis of Bose-Einstein condensation for a system of non-interacting spin-0 particles in a harmonic oscillator confining potential trap. We discuss why a confined system of particles differs both qualitatively and quantitatively from an identical system which is not confined. One crucial difference is that a confined system is not characterized by a critical temperature in the same way as an unconfined system such as the free boson gas. We present the results of both a numerical and analytic analysis of the problem of Bose-Einstein condensation in a general anisotropic harmonic oscillator confining potential.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9607047,
title = {Bose-Einstein condensation of atomic gases in a general harmonic oscillator},
author = {Klaus Kirsten and David J. Toms},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9607047},
year = {2007}
}
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34 pages, LaTeX, 8 postscript figures included