The thermodynamic limit for an imperfect Boson gas

M. van den Berg, John T. Lewis, Ph. De Smedt

C. J. Pethick, D. ter Haar

J.-B. Bru, Valentin Anatol'evich Zagrebnov

We show that the pressure of the Bogoliubov weakly imperfect Bose gas (WIBG) can be calculated exactly in the thermodynamic limit. We point out the sufficient and necessary conditions for it not to equate with the pressure of the ideal Bose gas (IBG). We prove that they differ only in that part of the phase diagram where the WIBG has a Bose condensate. We show that in contast to the conventional Bose condensate (e.g. in the IBG) the condensate in the WIBG is due to an effective attraction between bosons in the zero-mode.

Krzysztof Myśliwy, Marek Napiórkowski

Abstract We discuss thermodynamic properties of harmonically trapped imperfect quantum gases. The spatial inhomogeneity of these systems imposes a redefinition of the mean-field interparticle potential energy as compared to the homogeneous case. In our approach, it takes the form , where N is the number of particles, —the harmonic trap frequency, d —system’s dimensionality, and a is a parameter characterizing the interparticle interaction. We provide arguments that this model corresponds to the limiting case of a long-ranged interparticle potential of vanishingly small amplitude. This conclusion is drawn from a computation similar to the well-known Kac scaling procedure, which is presented here in a form adapted to the case of an isotropic harmonic trap. We show that within the model, the imperfect gas of trapped repulsive bosons undergoes the Bose–Einstein condensation provided d > 1. The main result of our analysis is that in d = 1 the gas of attractive imperfect fermions with is thermodynamically equivalent to the gas of repulsive bosons with provided the parameters and fulfill the relation . This result supplements similar recent conclusion about thermodynamic equivalence of two-dimensional (2D) uniform imperfect repulsive Bose and attractive Fermi gases.

J. T. Lewis, Joseph V. Pulé