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arXiv:0706.3300 · Europhysics Letters (EPL)

Trapped Bose gases with large positive scattering length

M Thøgersen, D. V Fedorov, A. S Jensen

Published Jul 19, 2007• 11 citations
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Abstract

We calculate the energy and the condensate fraction of a system of trapped bosons interacting via a short-range two-body potential with positive scattering length. The potential is attractive and has a two-body bound state. When the scattering length is small compared to the trap length the system is model independent: all potential models —attractive, repulsive and zero-range— provide similar results. When the scattering length is large the attractive model differs qualitatively from the repulsive and zero-range models. In this regime the system with attractive potential becomes independent of the scattering length, with both the energy and the condensate fraction converging towards finite constants.

DOI
10.1209/0295-5075/79/40002

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