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Finite-temperature correlations in the trapped Bose gas

Statistical Mechanics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Previous functional integral methods for translationally invariant systems have been extended to the case of a confining trap potential. Essentially all finite-temperature properties of the repulsive Bose gas in a paraboloidal trap can be determined this way. New analytical results reported here are for the finite-temperature two-point correlation functions below the critical temperatures in d=3,2 and 1 dimensions. Only for d=3 are correlations both long range and coherent - at long range consistent with the existence of a coherent state of the condensate in the trap. The two-dimensional condensate is marginally stable in the sense that correlations decay by a power law.

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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/9910439,
  title  = {Finite-temperature correlations in the trapped Bose gas},
  author = {N. M. Bogoliubov and R. K. Bullough and V. S. Kapitonov and C. Malyshev and J. Timonen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/9910439},
  year   = {2007}
}

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5 pages, no figures

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