Interaction effects on number fluctuations in a Bose-Einstein condensate of light.

Autor: van der Wurff EC; Institute for Theoretical Physics and Center for Extreme Matter and Emergent Phenomena, Utrecht University, Leuvenlaan 4, 3584 CE Utrecht, The Netherlands., de Leeuw AW; Institute for Theoretical Physics and Center for Extreme Matter and Emergent Phenomena, Utrecht University, Leuvenlaan 4, 3584 CE Utrecht, The Netherlands., Duine RA; Institute for Theoretical Physics and Center for Extreme Matter and Emergent Phenomena, Utrecht University, Leuvenlaan 4, 3584 CE Utrecht, The Netherlands., Stoof HT; Institute for Theoretical Physics and Center for Extreme Matter and Emergent Phenomena, Utrecht University, Leuvenlaan 4, 3584 CE Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2014 Sep 26; Vol. 113 (13), pp. 135301. Date of Electronic Publication: 2014 Sep 23.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.135301
Abstrakt: We investigate the effect of interactions on condensate-number fluctuations in Bose-Einstein condensates. For a contact interaction we variationally obtain the equilibrium probability distribution for the number of particles in the condensate. To facilitate comparison with experiment, we also calculate the zero-time delay autocorrelation function g((2))(0) for different strengths of the interaction. Finally, we focus on the case of a condensate of photons and find good agreement with recent experiments.
Databáze: MEDLINE