Weakly interacting Bose gas in the vicinity of the critical point
Abstract
We consider a three-dimensional weakly interacting Bose gas in the fluctuation region (and its vicinity) of the normal-superfluid phase transition point. We establish relations between basic thermodynamic functions: density, , superfluid density , and condensate density, . Being universal for all weakly interacting systems, these relations are obtained from Monte Carlo simulations of the classical model on a lattice. Comparing with the mean-field results yields a quantitative estimate of the fluctuation region size. Away from the fluctuation region, on the superfluid side, all the data perfectly agree with the predictions of the quasicondensate mean field theory.--This demonstrates that the only effect of the leading above-the-mean-field corrections in the condensate based treatments is to replace the condensate density with the quasicondensate one in all local thermodynamic relations. Surprisingly, we find that a significant fraction of the density profile of a loosely trapped atomic gas might correspond to the fluctuation region.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0401002,
title = {Weakly interacting Bose gas in the vicinity of the critical point},
author = {Nikolay Prokof'ev and Oliver Ruebenacker and Boris Svistunov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0401002},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
14 pages, Latex, 8 figures