- Author
- Year
- 1996
- Title
- Bose-Einstein condensation of a finite number of particles trapped in one or three dimensions
- Journal
- Physical Review A
- Volume | Issue number
- 54 | 1
- Pages (from-to)
- 656-660
- Document type
- Article
- Faculty
- Faculty of Science (FNWI)
- Institute
- Van der Waals-Zeeman Institute (WZI)
- Abstract
-
Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of an ideal gas is investigated for a finite number of particles. In three dimensions, we find a transition temperature which is lower than in the thermodynamic limit. Lowering the dimension increases the transition temperature and is therefore favorable for BEC. This is in contrast to the standard result obtained in the thermodynamic limit which states that BEC is not possible in, e.g., a one-dimensional (1D) harmonic potential. As a result, 1D atom traps, such as radially tightly confining magnetic traps or optical dipole traps, are promising for studying BEC.
- URL
- go to publisher's site
- Language
- Undefined/Unknown
- Note
- (c)2001 American Physical Society
- Persistent Identifier
- https://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.421372
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