The Bose Gas

Alexander L. Fetter, Christopher J. Foot

J.-B. Bru, Valentin Anatol'evich Zagrebnov

We show that the pressure of the Bogoliubov weakly imperfect Bose gas (WIBG) can be calculated exactly in the thermodynamic limit. We point out the sufficient and necessary conditions for it not to equate with the pressure of the ideal Bose gas (IBG). We prove that they differ only in that part of the phase diagram where the WIBG has a Bose condensate. We show that in contast to the conventional Bose condensate (e.g. in the IBG) the condensate in the WIBG is due to an effective attraction between bosons in the zero-mode.

E. Siri, Néda Sadooghi A

We study the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of a free Bose gas under rigid rotation. The aim is to explore the impact of rotation on the thermodynamic quantities associated with BEC, including the Bose-Einstein (BE) transition temperature and condensate fraction. We begin by introducing the rotation in the Lagrangian density of free charged Klein-Gordon fields and determine the corresponding grand canonical partition function at finite temperature, chemical potential, and finite angular velocity. Assuming slow rotation, we derive analytical expressions for the pressure, energy, number, and angular momentum densities of a free Bose gas in nonrelativistic and ultrarelativistic limits in terms of the corresponding fugacities. We then focus on the phenomenon of BEC. We calculate the critical temperature of BEC transition and the condensate fraction in a slowly rotating Bose gas including only particles. Our findings indicate that the critical exponent associated with the BE transition in a rotating gas is lower compared to that in a nonrotating Bose gas. We also determine the fugacity in a rotating Bose gas in the aforementioned limits and examine how rotation affects its temperature dependence, both below and above the critical temperature. By analyzing the behavior of heat capacity at these temperatures, we demonstrate that in a nonrelativistic Bose gas, the rotation transforms the nature of the BE phase transition from a continuous to a discontinuous transition. In general, we find that a nonrelativistic Bose gas under rotation behaves similarly to a nonrotating Bose gas in ultrarelativistic limit.

Élliott H. Lieb, Daniel Charles Mattis

Alexander I. Akhiezer, S. V. Peletminskiǐ, Yu. V. Slyusarenko

This paper investigates Bose-Einstein condensation of an ideal gas of finite-spin bosons in an external magnetic field. We generalize Bogolyubov’s theory of a weakly nonideal Bose gas to the case where the gas of finite-spin bosons is located in an external magnetic field. We find the corresponding quasiparticle spectrum and formulate the superfluidity criterion for the boson gas. The magnetization of the weakly nonideal Bose gas is also determined. Finally, we specify a method of studying kinetic processes that take place in a weakly nonideal Bose gas.