Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2007-08-16
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
5 pages
Scientific paper
We reconcile a long-standing controversy regarding the transition temperature of the Bose-Einstein condensation in a dilute interacting Bose gas, by showing that there is a crossover between ideal gas and interacting gas. The former corresponds to a Knudsen (or collisionless) regime, in which the mean-free-path is much larger than the system dimension, while the latter corresponds to the opposite hydrodynamic regime. The deviation of the transition temperature from that of the non-interacting gas is proportional to the square root of a in the Knudsen regime, and to a in the hydrodynamic regime, where a is the scattering length. This crossover may be observable in a Bose gas trapped in a potential or on an optical lattice.
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