Positronium Bose-Einstein condensation in liquid 4He bubbles

被引:16
作者
Mills, A. P., Jr. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Calif Riverside, Dept Phys & Astron, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
ANGULAR-CORRELATION; EFFECTIVE-MASS; HELIUM; ANNIHILATION; COMPRESSION; ELECTRONS; ATOMS; CONDUCTIVITY; REEMISSION; SCATTERING;
D O I
10.1103/PhysRevA.100.063615
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
A hollow spherical bubble containing thousands of spin-aligned triplet positronium (Ps) atoms in superfluid liquid He-4 would be stable against breakup into smaller bubbles, and the Ps would form a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) with a number density of similar to 10(20) cm(-3) and a BEC critical temperature T-c approximate to 300 K. Estimates suggest that one could make such bubbles in the laboratory containing 10(5) Ps atoms using presently known methods.
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