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Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General

Free bosons in a scaled external potential

Joachim A. Messer, André F. Verbeure

Published Mar 1, 1982• 3 citations
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Abstract

The authors introduce a suitable set of volume-dependent coherent states and use correlation inequalities to treat the condensation problem of bosons in an external field.
DOI
10.1088/0305-4470/15/3/006

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