Bose-Einstein Condensation in the Relativistic Ideal Bose Gas

Journal Article · Fri Nov 16 00:00:00 EST 2007 · Physical Review Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PHYSREVLETT.99.200406· OSTI ID:21024462

Grether, M ^[1]; Llano, M de ^[2]; Baker, Jr, George A ^[3]

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1. Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 04510 Mexico, DF (Mexico)
2. Texas Center for Superconductivity, University of Houston, Houston, Texas 77204 (United States) and Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 04510 Mexico, DF (Mexico)
3. Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545 (United States)

The Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) critical temperature in a relativistic ideal Bose gas of identical bosons, with and without the antibosons expected to be pair-produced abundantly at sufficiently hot temperatures, is exactly calculated for all boson number densities, all boson point rest masses, and all temperatures. The Helmholtz free energy at the critical BEC temperature is lower with antibosons, thus implying that omitting antibosons always leads to the computation of a metastable state.

• OSTI ID: 21024462
• Journal Information: Physical Review Letters, Vol. 99, Issue 20; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.200406; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0031-9007
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDENSATION
BOSE-EINSTEIN GAS
BOSONS
CALCULATION METHODS
CRITICAL TEMPERATURE
FREE ENERGY
METASTABLE STATES
PAIR PRODUCTION
RELATIVISTIC RANGE
REST MASS