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Two point correlations of a trapped interacting Bose gas at finite temperature

Other Condensed Matter 2008-09-11 v1

Abstract

We develop a computationally tractable method for calculating correlation functions of the finite temperature trapped Bose gas that includes the effects of s-wave interactions. Our approach uses a classical field method to model the low energy modes and treats the high energy modes using a Hartree-Fock description. We present results of first and second order correlation functions, in position and momentum space, for an experimentally realistic system in the temperature range of 0.6Tc0.6T_c to 1.0Tc1.0T_c. We also characterize the spatial coherence length of the system. Our theory should be applicable in the critical region where experiments are now able to measure first and second order correlations.

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@article{arxiv.0710.5798,
  title  = {Two point correlations of a trapped interacting Bose gas at finite temperature},
  author = {A. Bezett and E. Toth and P. B. Blakie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.5798},
  year   = {2008}
}

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9 pages, 4 figures