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Bose-Einstein condensation may occur in a constant magnetic field

Hugo Pérez Rojas

Published Jan 1, 1995• 32 citations
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Abstract

Bose-Einstein condensation of charged scalar and vector particles may actually occur in presence of a constant homogeneous magnetic field, but there is no critical temperature at which condensation starts. The condensate is described by the statistical distribution. The Meissner effect is possible in the scalar, but not in the vector field case, which exhibits a ferromagnetic behavior. Permanent address: Grupo de Fisica Teórica, ICIMAF, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba, Calle E No. 309,Vedado, La Habana 4, Cuba. It was pointed out long ago by Schafroth [1] that for a non-relativistic boson gas, Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) does not take place in the presence of a constant magnetic field. The problem was studied afterwards by May [2], who investigated the condensation in the non-relativistic case for an arbitrary dimension d and showed that it occurs for d ≥ 5, and later by Daicic et al [3], [4], who extended the considerations made by [2] to the relativistic high temperature case and found new magnetization properties. More recently Toms [5] has proved that BEC in presence of a constant magnetic field does not occur in any number of spatial dimensions, and Elmfors et al [6] consider that a in the 3d

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Abstract We study the effects of a uniform and constant magnetic field on the Bose–Einstein condensation (BEC) of relativistic charged scalar bosons. The condensation of magnetized charged bosons is usually discussed in the weak or strong field regimes separately, and in each case, the properties predicted for the condensate are different. Here, we develop a low‐temperature analysis suitable for any field that allows us to observe how the gas behaves for intermediate values of the magnetic field. We find that BEC may occur at finite magnetic fields, despite the gas becoming effectively one‐dimensional due to Landau quantization of the momentum perpendicular to the magnetic axis.
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