Ground-State Occupancy of an Ideal Bose-Einstein Gas Confined to a Finite Volume
- 20 April 1964
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 134 (2A) , A306-A308
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.134.a306
Abstract
The number of particles in the ground state has been computed as a function of temperature for an ideal Bose-Einstein gas confined to a box of finite volume by evaluating the discrete sum over states on a computer. Large deviations from London's bulk-gas result are found when the length of the box is much greater than its width for the range of dimensions investigated here. It is shown that the deviations occur because in this limit the system tends to behave like a one-dimensional system.Keywords
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