Transition temperature for the all-optical formation ofF=1spinor condensate
- 5 June 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 65 (6), 063610
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.65.063610
Abstract
We investigate theoretically the transition temperature of a weakly interacting spinor Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) formed in an optical trap. The Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov formalism for the spinor BEC is developed based on the mean-field theory for inhomogeneous systems at finite temperatures. The shift of the transition temperature due to finite-size effects and the two-body interaction is obtained simultaneously by analytically solving the coupled eigenvalue equations for quasiparticle excitations and amplitudes under Hartee-Fock-Bogoliubov and other relevant approximations. When applying this to the recent experiment of the all-optical formation of a spinor BEC with a condensate of atoms [Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 010404 (2001)], our calculations show that the condensation occurs at a temperature about 177 nK. An analytic result for the shift of the transition temperature in the presence of a weak magnetic field is also derived.
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