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Casimir force for geometrically confined ideal Bose gas in a harmonic-optical potential

Quantum Physics 2015-04-07 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

In this study, we have derived close form of the Casimir force for the non-interacting ideal Bose gas between two slabs in harmonic-optical lattice potential by using Ketterle and van Druten approximation. We find that Bose-Einstein condensation temperature TcT_{c} is a critical point for different physical behavior of the Casimir force. We have shown that Casimir force of confined Bose gas in the presence of the harmonic-optical potential decays with inversely proportional to d5d^{5} when TTcT\leq T_{c}. However, in the case of T>TcT>T_{c}, it decays exponentially depends on separation dd of the slabs. Additionally we have discussed temperature dependence of Casimir force and importance of the harmonic-optical lattice potential on quantum critical systems, quantum phase transition and nano-devices.

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@article{arxiv.1504.01214,
  title  = {Casimir force for geometrically confined ideal Bose gas in a harmonic-optical potential},
  author = {Ekrem Aydiner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.01214},
  year   = {2015}
}