Published April 2002 | Version v1
Journal article

Phases in weakly interacting finite Bose systems

  • 1. Physics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831 (United States)

Description

We study precursors of thermal phase transitions in finite systems of interacting Bose gases. For weakly repulsive interactions there is a phase transition to the one-vortex state. The distribution of zeros of the partition function indicates that this transition is first order, and the precursors of the phase transition are already displayed in systems of a few dozen bosons. Systems of this size do not exhibit new phases as more vortices are added to the system

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. A
Journal Volume
65
Journal Issue
4
Journal Page Range
p. 043603-043603.4
ISSN
1050-2947
CODEN
PLRAAN

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
36030313
Subject category
S74: ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; S75: CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY;
Descriptors DEI
BOSE-EINSTEIN GAS; BOSONS; DISTRIBUTION; INTERACTIONS; PARTITION FUNCTIONS; PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS; VORTICES
Descriptors DEC
FUNCTIONS

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(c) 2002 The American Physical Society