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arXiv:cond-mat/0508667 · Physical Review Letters

Critical Temperature of a Trapped Bose Gas: Comparison of Theory and Experiment

Matthew J. Davis, P. B. Blakie

Published Feb 16, 2006• 82 citations
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Abstract

We apply the projected Gross-Pitaevskii equation (PGPE) formalism to the experimental problem of the shift in critical temperature Tc of a harmonically confined Bose gas as reported in Gerbier et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 030405 (2004). The PGPE method includes critical fluctuations and we find the results differ from various mean-field theories, and are in best agreement with experimental data. To unequivocally observe beyond mean-field effects, however, the experimental precision must either improve by an order of magnitude, or consider more strongly interacting systems. This is the first application of a classical field method to make quantitative comparison with experiment.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.96.060404

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