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Weakly interacting Bose gas in the vicinity of the critical point

Superconductivity 2007-05-23 v1 Statistical Mechanics

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, n(T,μ)n(T,\mu), superfluid density ns(T,μ)n_s(T,\mu), and condensate density, ncnd(T,μ)n_{\rm cnd} (T,\mu). Being universal for all weakly interacting ψ4|\psi|^4 systems, these relations are obtained from Monte Carlo simulations of the classical ψ4|\psi|^4 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.

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@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}
}

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14 pages, Latex, 8 figures