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Quantum Dew

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v1 Astrophysics Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We consider phase separation in nonequilibrium Bose gas with an attractive interaction between the particles. Using numerical integrations on a lattice, we show that the system evolves into a state that contains drops of Bose-Einstein condensate suspended in uncondensed gas. When the initial gas is sufficiently rarefied, the rate of formation of this quantum dew scales with the initial density as expected for a process governed by two-particle collisions.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9902272,
  title  = {Quantum Dew},
  author = {S. Khlebnikov and I. Tkachev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9902272},
  year   = {2009}
}

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4 pages, revtex, 5 figures