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Physical Review A

Relativisticd-dimensional ideal Bose gas with pair creation

H.O. Frota, Melquisedech S. Silva, S. Goulart Rosa

Published Jan 1, 1989• 13 citations
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Abstract

The thermodynamic properties of a d-dimensional relativistic Bose gas mixture of particles and antiparticles are studied. The anomaly in the specific heat of the relativistic gas is removed by the pair-creation mechanism. The crossover from the nonrelativistic limit to the ultrarelativistic limit is also analyzed.
DOI
10.1103/physreva.39.830

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An ideal relativistic Bose-gas model with pair production is solved exactly in ddd dimensions. The critical behavior is shown to be the same as the usual nonrelativistic Bose gas. Scaling functions (including nonuniversal parameters) for the equation of state and the correlation functions are obtained in a closed form. The scale-factor universality is verified by the formation of the expected universal ratios. Various limiting cases of the model depending on the relative magnitudes of the three basic length scales, i.e., Compton wave-length, thermal wavelength, and interparticle distance are discussed. In these limiting cases, previously known results are recovered, wherever these are available.