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Finite-size scaling and the role of the thermodynamic ensemble in the transition temperature of a dilute Bose gas

Erich J Mueller, Gordon Baym and Markus Holzmann

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We study the Bose-Einstein condensation phase transition in a weakly interacting gas through a perturbative analysis of finite systems. In both the grand canonical and the canonical ensembles, perturbation theory suffers from infrared divergences and cannot directly determine the transition temperature in the thermodynamic limit. However, in conjunction with finite-size scaling, perturbation theory provides a powerful calculation tool. Here we use this combination of perturbation theory and scaling to estimate a shift in the transition temperature in the canonical ensemble consistent with grand canonical calculations.


PACS

05.30.Jp Boson systems

05.70.Fh Phase transitions: general studies

Subjects

Quantum gases, liquids and solids

Statistical physics and nonlinear systems

Dates

Issue 23 (14 December 2001)

Received 1 July 2001

Published 21 November 2001



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