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Quantum Borderlines -- Fluctuation Energies in Ultracold Bose Gases

Quantum Gases 2025-05-22 v2

Abstract

Ultracold Bose gases are many-body systems with well-defined particle interactions that may serve as models for interacting quantum fields. The impact of virtual excitations is studied in the spatial transition zone created by a soft confinement potential that separates a degenerate ideal gas from a dense quasi-condensate. We compute within Bogoliubov theory the contribution of quasi-particles to the surface energy at zero temperature.

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@article{arxiv.2503.21908,
  title  = {Quantum Borderlines -- Fluctuation Energies in Ultracold Bose Gases},
  author = {Carsten Henkel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.21908},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

Focus Issue "Casimir Effect and its Role in Modern Physics'', referee comments included. Contains supplementary material (appendices)