Bulletin of the American Physical Society
Calculation of $g_2$ for a Finite Temperature Gas
A. Bezett, E. Toth, Blair Blakie
Abstract
We present a finite temperature theoretical model for calculating correlations in degenerate Bose gas that systematically includes the effects of harmonic trap confinement, interactions between the particles and is valid in the critical regime. This model is based on the non-pertubative Projected Gross Pitaevskii (PGPE) formalism 6 , which includes the dynamics of the low lying modes of the thermal cloud, coupled to a semiclassical description of high the energy modes. We discuss progress on the application of this formalism to the experiment of Schellekens et al. 5 where a direct measurement of correlation length is made