Casimir Energy of a BEC: From Moderate Interactions to the Ideal Gas

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2008-09-10

arxiv.org/abs/0809.1816v2

J. Phys. A: Math. Theor. 42 (2009) 045401

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Condensed Matter

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12 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in JPA. New version with corrected typos and an additional appendix

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10.1088/1751-8113/42/4/045401

Considering the Casimir effect due to phononic excitations of a weakly interacting dilute {BEC}, we derive a re-normalized expression for the zero temperature Casimir energy $\mathcal{E}_c$ of a {BEC} confined to a parallel plate geometry with periodic boundary conditions. Our expression is formally equivalent to the free energy of a bosonic field at finite temperature, with a nontrivial density of modes that we compute analytically. As a function of the interaction strength, $\mathcal{E}_c$ smoothly describes the transition from the weakly interacting Bogoliubov regime to the non-interacting ideal {BEC}. For the weakly interacting case, $\mathcal{E}_c$ reduces to leading order to the Casimir energy due to zero-point fluctuations of massless phonon modes. In the limit of an ideal Bose gas, our result correctly describes the Casimir energy going to zero.

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