Classical Region of a Trapped Bose Gas

Details Classical Region of a Trapped Bose Gas Classical Region of a Trapped Bose Gas

2005-08-29

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0508669v2

J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 40, 2043 (2007)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Other Condensed Matter

6 pages, 5 figures; updated to include new results with interactions

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The classical region of a Bose gas consists of all single-particle modes that have a high average occupation and are well-described by a classical field. Highly-occupied modes only occur in massive Bose gases at ultra-cold temperatures, in contrast to the photon case where there are highly-occupied modes at all temperatures. For the Bose gas the number of these modes is dependent on the temperature, the total number of particles and their interaction strength. In this paper we characterize the classical region of a harmonically trapped Bose gas over a wide parameter regime. We use a Hartree-Fock approach to account for the effects of interactions, which we observe to significantly change the classical region as compared to the idealized case. We compare our results to full classical field calculations and show that the Hartree-Fock approach provides a qualitatively accurate description of classical region for the interacting gas.

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