https://doi.org/10.1140/epjd/e2013-40243-x
Regular Article
Thermodynamic properties of a rotating Bose-Einstein condensation in a harmonic plus quartic trap
1 Department of Physics, Faculty of
Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
2 Department of Physics, Faculty of
Science, El Minia University, El
Minia, Egypt
a
e-mail: doaahassan1512@gmail.com
b Present address: Physics Department, American University in Cairo, AUC
Avenue, New Cairo, Egypt
Received:
16
April
2013
Received in final form:
9
June
2013
Published online:
19
August
2013
In this paper, the thermodynamic properties of a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate confined in a harmonic plus quartic potential are calculated using a modified semiclassical approximation. We determined the condensate fraction, critical temperature and heat capacity of the condensate using a method that takes into account deviations from ideal gas behavior due to the effect of finite size and the chemical potential when it is equal to the ground state energy (positive chemical potential). Predictions that can be directly compared with experiment have been found.
Key words: Cold Matter and Quantum Gas
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