BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION IN HARMONIC DOUBLE WELLS
BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION IN HARMONIC DOUBLE WELLS
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谐波双阱中的玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚
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1998
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通讯作者:
E. Hernández
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作者:
P. Capuzzi;E. Hernández
We discuss Bose-Einstein condensation in harmonic traps where the confinement has undergone a splitting along one direction. We mostly consider three-dimensional potentials consisting of two cylindrical wells separated a distance $2a$ along the z axis. For ideal gases, the thermodynamics of the confined bosons has been investigated, performing exact numerical summations to describe the major details of the transition and comparing the results with the semiclassical density-of-states approximation. We find that for large particle number and increasing well separation, the condensation temperature evolves from the thermodynamic limit value ${T}_{c}^{(0)}(N)$ to ${T}_{c}^{(0)}(N/2).$ The effects of adding a repulsive interaction between atoms has been examined resorting to the Gross-Pitaevskii-Popov procedure, and it is found that the shift of the condensation temperature exhibits different signs according to the separation between wells. In particular, for sufficiently large splitting, the trend opposes the well-known results for harmonic traps, since the critical temperature appears to increase with growing repulsion strength.