Casimir force on interacting Bose-Einstein condensate
Statistical Mechanics
2010-04-08 v5 Quantum Gases
Abstract
We have presented an analytic theory for the Casimir force on a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) which is confined between two parallel plates. We have considered Dirichlet boundary conditions for the condensate wave function as well as for the phonon field. We have shown that, the condensate wave function (which obeys the Gross-Pitaevskii equation) is responsible for the mean field part of Casimir force, which usually dominates over the quantum (fluctuations) part of the Casimir force.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0907.2616,
title = {Casimir force on interacting Bose-Einstein condensate},
author = {Shyamal Biswas and J. K. Bhattacharjee and Dwipesh Majumder and Kush Saha and Nabajit Chakravarty},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.2616},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
Accepted in Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics