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arXiv:0706.2833 · Physical Review Letters

Bose-Einstein Condensation in the Relativistic Ideal Bose Gas

M. Grether, MANUEL DE LLANO, George Allen Baker Jr.

Published Nov 16, 2007• 63 citations
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Abstract

The Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) critical temperature in a relativistic ideal Bose gas of identical bosons, with and without the antibosons expected to be pair-produced abundantly at sufficiently hot temperatures, is exactly calculated for all boson number densities, all boson point rest masses, and all temperatures. The Helmholtz free energy at the critical BEC temperature is lower with antibosons, thus implying that omitting antibosons always leads to the computation of a metastable state.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.99.200406

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