arXiv:cond-mat/0103228 · Physical Review Letters
BEC Transition Temperature of a Dilute Homogeneous Imperfect Bose Gas
Peter B. Arnold, Guy D. Moore
Abstract
The leading-order effect of interactions on a homogeneous Bose gas is theoretically predicted to shift the critical temperature by an amount $\ensuremath{\Delta}{T}_{c}\ensuremath{\simeq}{\mathrm{ca}}_{\mathrm{sc}}{n}^{1/3}{T}_{0}$ from the ideal gas result ${T}_{0}$, where ${a}_{\mathrm{sc}}$ is the scattering length, $n$ is the density, and $c$ is a pure number. There have been several different theoretical estimates for $c$. We claim to settle the issue by measuring the numerical coefficient in a lattice simulation of O(2) ${\ensuremath{\varphi}}^{4}$ field theory in three dimensions---an effective theory which, as observed previously in the literature, can be systematically matched to the dilute Bose gas problem to reproduce nonuniversal quantities such as the critical temperature. We find $c\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}=\phantom{\rule{0ex}{0ex}}1.32\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}0.02$.