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Chinese Physics Letters

Functional Integral Approach to the Transition Temperature of Attractive Interacting Bose Gas in Traps

Guangxi Hu, Xianxi Dai

Published Jul 1, 2004• 1 citation
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Abstract

The functional integral approach (FIA) is introduced to study the transition temperature of an imperfect Bose gas in traps. An interacting model in quantum statistical mechanics is presented. With the model we study a Bose gas with attractive interaction trapped in an external potential. We obtain the result that the transition temperature of a trapped Bose gas will slightly shift upwards owing to the attractive interacting force. Successful application of the FIA to Bose systems is demonstrated.

DOI
10.1088/0256-307x/21/7/005

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By using a mean-field approach, based on the Popov approximation, we calculate the temperature dependence of the condensate fraction of an interacting Bose gas of N atoms confined in an anisotropic harmonic trap. For systems interacting with repulsive forces we find a significant decrease of the condensate fraction and of the critical temperature with respect to the predictions of the noninteracting model with the same value of N. An analytic result for the shift of the critical temperature holding to first order in the scattering length is also derived. \textcopyright{} 1996 The American Physical Society.