Published July 2, 2024 | Version v1
Journal article

Bose-Einstein condensation in a canonical ensemble with fixed total momentum

  • 1. N. L. Dukhov Research Institute of Automatics (VNIIA), 127030 Moscow, Russia
  • 2. Institute for Spectroscopy RAS, 108840 Troitsk, Moscow, Russia
  • 3. National Research University Higher School of Economics, 109028 Moscow, Russia

Description

We consider Bose-Einstein condensation of noninteracting homogeneous three-dimensional gas in canonical ensemble when both particle number N and total momentum P of all particles are fixed. Using the saddle-point method, we derive the large-N analytical approximations for partition function, free energy, and statistical distributions of occupation numbers of different single-particle energy levels. At temperatures below the critical point of phase transition, we predict, in some ranges of P, fragmentation of the condensate, when more than one single-particle level is macroscopically occupied. The occupation number distributions have approximately Gaussian shapes for the levels hosting the condensate, and exponential shapes for other, noncondensate levels. Our analysis demonstrates breaking of Galilean invariance of moving finite-temperature many-particle system in the presence of Bose-Einstein condensation and extends the theory of moving and rotating quantum systems to the finite-temperature large-N limit.

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1103/PhysRevA.110.013301;
arXiv
arXiv:2403.08482;
Crossref Funder ID
10.13039/501100002674;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review A
Journal Volume
110
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
14 pgs.
ISSN
1094-1622

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Copyright
©2024 American Physical Society
Notes
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Funding organization
Russian Academy of Sciences