English
Related papers

Related papers: Elementary thermodynamics of trapped particles

200 papers

We establish an analytical criterion for dynamical thermalization within harmonic systems, applicable to both classical and quantum models. Specifically, we prove that thermalization of various observables, such as particle energies in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-29 Marco Cattaneo , Marco Baldovin , Dario Lucente , Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi , Angelo Vulpiani

We considered the thermodynamics in spaces with deformed commutation relation leading to existence of the minimal length. We developed a classical method of the partition function evaluation. We calculated the partition function and heat…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Taras Fityo

We present a comprehensive study of the discretized modes of an atomic gas in different conditions of confinement. Starting from the equations of hydrodynamics we derive a closed equation for the velocity field, depending on the adiabatic…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-11-19 Giulia De Rosi , Sandro Stringari

Comparison of the thermodynamic entropy with Boltzmann's principle shows that under conditions of constant volume the total number of arrangements in simple thermodynamic systems with temperature-independent heat capacities is TC/k. A…

General Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 David Sands

We study the time evolution of a system of interacting bosons in a harmonic trap. In the low-energy regime, the quantum system is not ergodic and displays rather large fluctuations of the ground state occupation number. In the high energy…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Thomas Papenbrock , George F. Bertsch

By taking the hydrodynamic limit we derive, at $T=0$, an explicit solution of the linearized time dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation for the order parameter of a Bose gas confined in a harmonic trap and interacting with repulsive forces.…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Stringari

We describe a finite inhomogeneous three dimensional system of classical particles which interact through short and (or) long range interactions by means of a simple analytic spin model. The thermodynamic properties of the system are worked…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Richert , P. Wagner , M. Henkel , J. M. Carmona

We utilize a fractional exclusion statistics of Haldane and Wu hypothesis to study the thermodynamics of a unitary Fermi gas trapped in a harmonic oscillator potential at ultra-low finite temperature. The entropy per particle as a function…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-09-01 Fang Qin , Ji-sheng Chen

We simulate by lattice Boltzmann the nonequilibrium steady states of run-and-tumble particles (inspired by a minimal model of bacteria), interacting by far-field hydrodynamics, subject to confinement. Under gravity, hydrodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-07-01 R. W. Nash , R. Adhikari , J. Tailleur , M. E. Cates

Assuming the validity of grand canonical statistics, we study the properties of a spin-polarized Fermi gas in harmonic traps. Universal forms of Fermi temperature $T_F$, internal energy $U$ and the specific heat per particle of the trapped…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 X. X. Yi , J. C. Su

A generalized entropy arising in the context of superstatistics is obtained for an ideal gas. The curvature scalar associated to the thermodynamic space generated by this modified entropy is calculated using two formalisms of the geometric…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-18 J. L. López , O. Obregón , J. Torres-Arenas

In this paper the thermodynamical parameters of a condensed Boson gas are calculated from the partial derivative of the grand potential. In particular, the analytical expressions for some important parameters, such as the condensed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-09-28 Ahmed S. Hassan , Shemi S. M. Soliman , Emad H. Soliman

We experimentally study a gas of $N = 8$ one-dimensional Brownian particles, each confined in a harmonic trap with identical stiffness. The stiffness switches simultaneously between two values at random Poissonian times. This collective…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-12 Marco Biroli , Sergio Ciliberto , Manas Kulkarni , Satya N. Majumdar , Artyom Petrosyan , Gregory Schehr

We propose a first principle computation of the thermodynamics of simple fragile glasses starting from the two body interatomic potential. A replica formulation translates this problem into that of a gas of interacting molecules, each…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Marc Mezard , Giorgio Parisi

Frictionless atom cooling in harmonic traps is formulated as a time-optimal control problem and a synthesis of optimal controlled trajectories is obtained. This work has already been used to determine the minimum time for transition between…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Dionisis Stefanatos , Heinz Schaettler , Jr-Shin Li

We study the thermodynamical properties of a mesoscopic Fermi gas in view of recent possibilities to trap ultracold atoms in a harmonic potential. We focus on the effects of shell closure for finite small atom numbers. The dependence of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 J. Schneider , H. Wallis

Internal energy, enthalpy and entropy are the key quantities to study thermodynamic properties of the moist atmosphere, because they correspond to the First (internal energy and enthalpy) and Second (entropy) Laws of thermodynamics. The aim…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-10-13 Pascal Marquet , Jean-François Geleyn

In a recent experiment, a Bose-Einstein condensate was trapped in an anharmonic potential which is well approximated by a harmonic and a quartic part. The condensate was set into such a fast rotation that the centrifugal force in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sebastian Kling , Axel Pelster

We have investigated experimentally the finite-temperature properties of a Bose-Einstein condensed cloud of $^{87}$Rb atoms in a harmonic trap. Focusing primarily on condensed fraction and expansion energy, we measure unambiguous deviations…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Fabrice Gerbier , Joseph H. Thywissen , Simon Richard , Mathilde Hugbart , Philippe Bouyer , Alain Aspect

In view of ongoing experiments to trap ultracold spin-polarized $^6$Li, we study various properties of an interacting Fermi gas in a harmonic trap taking the discrete nature of the unperturbed harmonic trap levels into account exactly. As…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 G. M. Bruun , K. Burnett