Journal of the Physical Society of Japan

Bose–Einstein Condensation of Ideal Bose Gases

Jun’ichi Ieda, Takeya Tsurumi, Miki Wadati

Published May 15, 2001• 1 citation

Abstract

Bose–Einstein condensation (BEC) is studied for ideal boson gases with a wide class of the dispersion relations. A criterion of the BEC, the transition temperature and a fraction of the condensate are calculated under the appropriate thermodynamic limits. The correspondence between the dispersion relation (spectrum) and the trap potential is shown. This gives the criterion for the trap shape and the dimensionality of the system.

DOI: 10.1143/jpsj.70.1256

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