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View SchemaPair correlation function of an inhomogeneous interacting Bose-Einstein condensate
| Authors | M. Holzmann, Y. Castin |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/9812029 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9812029 |
| DOI | 10.1007/s100530050586 |
| Journal | Eur. Phys. J. D 7, 425-432 (1999). |
Abstract
We calculate the pair correlation function of an interacting Bose gas in a harmonic trap directly via Path Integral Quantum Monte Carlo simulation for various temperatures and compare the numerical result with simple approximative treatments. Around the critical temperature of Bose-Einstein condensation, a description based on the Hartree-Fock approximation is found to be accurate. At low temperatures the Hartree-Fock approach fails and we use a local density approximation based on the Bogoliubov description for a homogeneous gas. This approximation agrees with the simulation results at low temperatures, where the contribution of the phonon-like modes affects the long range behavior of the correlation function. Further we discuss the relation between the pair correlation and quantities measured in recent experiments.
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