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Condensation and interaction range in harmonic boson traps: a variational approach

Condensed Matter 2009-10-31 v1

Abstract

For a gas of N bosons interacting through a two-body Morse potential a variational bound of the free energy of a confined system is obtained. The calculation method is based on the Feynman-Kac functional projected on the symmetric representation. Within the harmonic approximation a variational estimate of the effect of the interaction range on the existence of many-particle bound states, and on the N-T phase diagram is obtained.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9911210,
  title  = {Condensation and interaction range in harmonic boson traps: a variational approach},
  author = {J. Tempere and F. Brosens and L. F. Lemmens and J. T. Devreese},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9911210},
  year   = {2009}
}

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14 pages+4 figures, submitted to phys.rev.A

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