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Anomalous Statistics of Bose-Einstein Condensate in an Interacting Gas: An Effect of the Trap’s Form and Boundary Conditions in the Thermodynamic Limit

Sergey V. Tarasov, Vl. V. Kocharovsky, Vitaly V. Kocharovsky

Published Feb 27, 2018• 11 citations

Abstract

We analytically calculate the statistics of Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) fluctuations in an interacting gas trapped in a three-dimensional cubic or rectangular box with the Dirichlet, fused or periodic boundary conditions within the mean-field Bogoliubov and Thomas-Fermi approximations. We study a mesoscopic system of a finite number of trapped particles and its thermodynamic limit. We find that the BEC fluctuations, first, are anomalously large and non-Gaussian and, second, depend on the trap's form and boundary conditions. Remarkably, these effects persist with increasing interparticle interaction and even in the thermodynamic limit-only the mean BEC occupation, not BEC fluctuations, becomes independent on the trap's form and boundary conditions.

DOI: 10.3390/e20030153

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