Critical temperature of a trapped interacting Bose-Einstein gas in the local-density approximation

Hualin Shi, Wei‐Mou Zheng

Physical Review A · 1997 · 38 citations · 12 references

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Abstract

The Bose-Einstein gas in an external potential is studied by means of the local-density approximation. An analytical result is derived for the dependence of the critical temperature of Bose-Einstein condensation on the mutual interaction in a generic power-law potential.

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