Atomic Bose gas with a negative scattering length
- 1 May 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 49 (5) , 3824-3830
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.49.3824
Abstract
We derive the equation of state of a dilute atomic Bose gas with an interatomic interaction that has a negative scattering length and argue that two continuous phase transitions, occurring in the gas due to quantum degeneracy effects, are preempted by a first-order gas-liquid or gas-solid transition, depending on the details of the interaction potential. We also discuss the consequences of this result for future experiments with magnetically trapped spin-polarized atomic gases such as lithium and cesium.Keywords
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