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arXiv:cond-mat/9905430 · Physical Review Letters

The Transition Temperature of the Dilute Interacting Bose Gas

Gordon Baym, Jean-Paul Blaizot, Markus Holzmann, Franck Laloë, D. Vautherin

Published Aug 30, 1999• 248 citations
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Abstract

We show that the critical temperature of a uniform dilute Bose gas increases linearly with the $s$-wave scattering length describing the repulsion between the particles. Because of infrared divergences, the magnitude of the shift cannot be obtained from perturbation theory, even in the weak coupling regime; rather, it is proportional to the size of the critical region in momentum space. By means of a self-consistent calculation of the quasiparticle spectrum at low momenta at the transition, we find an estimate of the effect in reasonable agreement with numerical simulations.

DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.83.1703

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