Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
1997-07-04
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
RevTeX, 5 figures. Submitted to Phys. Rev. A
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevA.58.526
We study, in the framework of the Boltzmann-Nordheim equation (BNE), the kinetic properties of a boson gas above the Bose-Einstein transition temperature $T_c$. The BNE is solved numerically within a new algorithm, that has been tested with exact analytical results for the collision rate of an homogeneous system in thermal equilibrium. In the classical regime ($T > 6~ T_c$), the relaxation time of a quadrupolar deformation in momentum space is proportional to the mean free collision time $\tau_{relax} \sim T^{-1/2}$. Approaching the critical temperature ($T_c < T < 2.7~ T_c$), quantum statistic effects in BNE become dominant, and the collision rate increases dramatically. Nevertheless, this does not affect the relaxation properties of the gas that depend only on the spontaneous collision term in BNE. The relaxation time $\tau_{relax}$ is proportional to $(T - T_c)^{-1/2}$, exhibiting a critical slowing down. These phenomena can be experimentally confirmed looking at the damping properties of collective motions induced on trapped atoms. The possibility to observe a transition from collisionless (zero-sound) to hydrodynamic (first-sound) is finally discussed.
López-Arias Teresa
Smerzi Augusto
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