Journal
ANNALS OF PHYSICS
Volume 326, Issue 3, Pages 634-644Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2010.09.013
Keywords
Finite Bose systems; Exact canonical ensemble; Trap-size scaling
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [10775032, 10974033, J0730310]
- Ministry of Education of China [B06011]
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Based on an exact canonical partition function, we investigate the trap-size scaling for ideal Bose gases with a finite number of particles N confined in a cubic box or in a harmonic trap. We study the trap-size scaling behaviors of condensate fraction < n(0)>/N and specific heat C-N around the transition temperature T-c (i.e., t = T/T-c - 1 -> 0) for the three different traps, where a trap exponent 0 in dependence of the trapping potential and the universality class of transition are introduced. In the box trap with periodic and Dirichlet boundary conditions, where 0 -> 1, we find that the scaling functions governing the various critical behaviors are universal but respective of the boundary conditions. The calculated critical exponents are in nice agreement with analytical scaling predictions. The borders of universality validity are obtained numerically. In the case of the harmonic trap, the critical behavior of the system is also found to be universal, and the trap exponent is obtained as 0 similar or equal to 0.068. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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