Dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates at finite temperature
- JILA and Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440 (United States)
We study a Bose-Einstein condensate of a dilute gas with dipolar interactions, at finite temperature, using the Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov theory within the Popov approximation. An additional approximation involving the dipolar exchange interaction is made to facilitate the computation. We calculate the temperature dependence of the condensate fraction of a condensate confined in a cylindrically symmetric harmonic trap. We show that the biconcave-shaped condensates found in [Ronen et al. Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 30406 (2007)] in certain pancake traps at zero temperature are also stable at finite temperature. Surprisingly, the dip in the central density of these structured condensates is actually enhanced at low finite temperatures. We explain this effect.
- OSTI ID:
- 21020774
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. A, Vol. 76, Issue 4; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.76.043607; (c) 2007 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1050-2947
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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