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arXiv:cond-mat/0101008

Bose-Einstein Condensation in Exotic Trapping Potentials

Luca Salasnich

Published Jan 1, 2001• 0 citations
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Abstract

We discuss thermal and dynamical properties of Bose condensates confined by an external potential. First we analyze the Bose-Einstein transition temperature for an ideal Bose gas in a generic power-law potential and d-dimensional space. Then we investigate the effect of the shape of the trapping potential on the properties of a weakly-interacting Bose condensate. We show that using exotic trapping potentials the condensate can exhibit interesting coherent quantum phenomena, like superfluidity and tunneling. In particular, we consider toroidal and double-well potentials. The theoretical results are compared with recent experiments.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.cond-mat/0101008

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The critical temperature for Bose-Einstein condensation, ground-state fraction, and heat capacity of an ideal gas of Bose particles that are confined by an n-dimensional generic power-law potential trap are derived. The conditions for Bose-Einstein condensation and the discontinuous conditions of the heat capacity at critical temperature are obtained. All these quantities and conditions are found to vary markedly with the dimensionality of space, characteristics of particles, and shape of the external potential. The results obtained here are universal.
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We review some recent theoretical work on the phase transition of interacting Bose gases in the presence of external trapping potentials. A general framework for the study of such questions is presented which is based on the application of perturbative momentum-shell renormalization group methods to the trapped gas in the uncondensed phase. After giving an overview of this approach, we first establish its validity by comparing to previous results for homogeneous and harmonically trapped gases. Using this theoretical framework, we then examine various aspects of how external potentials influence the physics of condensation. (i) By studying the case of general power-law potentials and complemented by arguments from variational perturbation theory, it is quantitatively worked out how a growing inhomogeneity of the trapping potential diminishes nonperturbative effects at the transition. (ii) It is shown how by superimposing a weak periodic potentials on the homogeneous system, the characteristic nonperturbative momentum scale of critical interacting Bose gases can be probed. (iii) For a gas in a random potential, it is studied how condensation is affected by the combined influence of disorder effects and particle interactions.