Condensate fluctuations of a trapped, ideal Bose gas
Abstract
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For a non-self-interacting Bose gas with a fixed, large number of particles confined to a trap, as the ground state occupation becomes macroscopic, the condensate number fluctuations remain micrscopic. However, this is the only significant aspect in which the grand canonical description differs from canonical or microcanonical in the thermodynamic limit. General arguments and estimates including some vanishingly small quantities are compared to explicit, fixed-number calculations for 10^2 to 10^6 particles.
16 pages (REVTeX) plus 4 figures (ps), revision includes brief comparison of repulsive-interaction vs. fixed-N fluctuation damping. To be published in Phys. Rev. A
16 pages (REVTeX) plus 4 figures (ps), revision includes brief comparison of repulsive-interaction vs. fixed-N fluctuation damping. To be published in Phys. Rev. A