Fluctuation statistics of mesoscopic Bose-Einstein condensate: reconciling the master equation with the partition function to revisit the Uhlenbeck-Einstein dilemma

Details Fluctuation statistics of mesoscopic Bose-Einstein condensate: reconciling the master equation with the partition function to revisit the Uhlenbeck-Einstein dilemma Fluctuation statistics of mesoscopic Bose-Einstein condensate: reconciling the master equation with the partition function to revisit the Uhlenbeck-Einstein dilemma

2006-08-10

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0608247v1

Phys. Rev. A 74, 032506 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

13 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.74.032506

The atom fluctuations statistics of an ideal, mesoscopic, Bose-Einstein condensate is investigated from several different perspectives. By generalizing the grand canonical analysis (applied to the canonical ensemble problem), we obtain a self-consistent equation for the mean condensate particle number that coincides with the microscopic result calculated from the laser master equation approach. For the case of a harmonic trap, we obtain an analytic expression for the condensate particle number that is very accurate at all temperatures, when compared with numerical canonical ensemble results. Applying a similar generalized grand canonical treatment to the variance, we obtain an accurate result only below the critical temperature. Analytic results are found for all higher moments of the fluctuation distribution by employing the stochastic path integral formalism, with excellent accuracy. We further discuss a hybrid treatment, which weds the master equation/stochastic path integral analysis with the results obtained based on canonical ensemble quasiparticle formalism [V. V. Kocharovsky et al., Phys. Rev. A 61, 053606 (2000)], producing essentially perfect agreement with numerical simulation at all temperatures.

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